We do a lot in this kitchen, and it basically serves as a command center in our home. I also cook a lot from scratch, so there is often fresh chicken breast waiting to be cooked, or cracked eggs, dustings of flour, and chopped veggies sprinkling the counter while I prepare meals. While I love knowing we are eating healthy meals, doing all the cooking (not to mention having all those raw ingredients around) means a lot of cleaning up.
I keep a roll or two of paper towels close at hand to clean up as I go, and I also keep a dish towel nearby to dry my hands because I wash them often as I work. It turns out it’s a very good thing I do things this way, because I was recently challenged to try using a dish towel to clean up (as most people do) and I was shocked by the results. I was sent a test dishtowel to use as normal (or how I would normally use it if I weren’t a paper towel addict), so I wiped off the counter after chopping and making meals, and I cleaned up spills that happened during the day, and I wiped down the faucet handles for good measure.
I thought I was cleaning, but I was actually just spreading around germs. Germs from dirty hands, raw foods, and the general atmosphere. Eew. The average dishcloth contains just under 20,000 levels of ATP detected. It’s a measure of organic soil from things like food residue and dirt that is left behind in kitchens and other places, and such a high level indicates that the dishcloth is actually possibly spreading germs into a clean kitchen. My results were high in only three days use! That means when I wipe egg off the counter and then wipe elsewhere, I’m spreading 5474 levels of germs in the kitchen of my family. Double eew. And confession: when I used to use dishcloths, I would actually go several days before tossing it in the wash.
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*1tsp spaghetti sauce, 10 mls. coffee, ⅛ tsp creamer on laminate countertop
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