| Everybody is worried about food poisoning these | | | | why it is often a breeding ground for germs and |
| days. It started with the salmonella threat, so people | | | | cockroaches, especially if it is not used often, as they |
| stopped eating raw eggs. Then there was a warning | | | | are not these days, because the microwave has |
| about eating rice from the night before that had not | | | | taken over. So, mix a tablespoon of bicarbonate of |
| been thoroughly reheated, because it could cause | | | | soda with a pint of boiling water and set aside in a |
| campylobacter. That was followed by mad cow | | | | screw-top jar, after it has finished frothing over. |
| disease, which was followed by scrapies and the blue | | | | Then clean your oven. Sorry, not with the bicarb |
| tongue, now it' chicken flu and swine flu. When will it | | | | mixture. When it is clean, warm it up and paint the |
| all stop? | | | | oven with your mixture. Seal the jar and keep. After |
| The answer is probably that it will not, so all you can | | | | a month or two, easily wash the bicarb skin off and |
| do is make sure that your kitchen is scrupiously clean. | | | | repaint. It is a home-made Teflon coating really. |
| That means, pots, pans, work surfaces, your fridge | | | | What A Waste: the waste disposal unit also provides |
| and your pets. One day we will all be so clean that | | | | enough food for generations of cockroaches, |
| something really small will get the lot of us. Anyway, | | | | especially as the grease of weeks builds up. You can |
| cleanliness is next to Godliness, so they say. With | | | | usually clean and clear it without tipping dangerous |
| that in mind, I offer you five top tips for keeping | | | | chemicals into the environment, by tipping a pint of |
| things clean in the kitchen. | | | | ice cubes through it while it is working. No water, only |
| Oven Ready: the oven is a notoriously difficult place | | | | ice. |
| to clean, which is why it is often ignored, which is | | | | |