Check out our Top 10 hygiene tips, to help you maintain a safe and clean kitchen.
1 - Wash your Hands
Making sure your hands are clean is at the top of the kitchen hygiene rules list. It’s easy for bacteria to be transferred from hands to surfaces or surfaces to hands, so wash your hands throughout prepping and cooking food. Regular hand washing is one of the most essential kitchen hygiene rules.
Teaching your children too, to make sure the whole family knows how to wash their hands properly.
2 -Thoroughly cook foods
The most important food hygiene rule is to ensure food is cooked properly. If under cooked, harmful bacteria could lead to food poisoning. Check with a food thermometer or Cut into the food to check that it is cooked through and make sure any reheated food is piping hot.
3 - Correctly store your food
Also one of the most important food hygiene rules in the kitchen is safe storage. Make sure leftovers or open food packets are covered with cling film or sealed in a plastic container. Never put warm food into the fridge, wait until cool and keep your fridge clear of any items that are out of date or have been open to long.
4- Wipe down counter tops and tables
Wiping kitchen counter tops and kitchen tables after every use is one of the easiest and most essential kitchen hygiene rules. You’ll not only be keeping things clean and tidy but you will be stopping the spread of bacteria and viruses too.
5. Food hygiene rules: don't cross-contaminate
If you have ever had food poisoning, you will understand why avoiding cross-contamination is high on the list of the basic kitchen hygiene rules. Using different cutting boards for fish, meat, veg, dairy or bread ( different colour boards will help), NEVER leave edible food next to raw meat. These simple kitchen hygiene tips will help avoid the spread of potential poisonous bacteria and viruses.
Our sterizar blue wipes are great and easy to use when prepping food, they help avoid cross contamination
6. Clean your chopping boards after use
Bits of food left on a chopping board will soon breed bacteria, so scrubbing down your board immediately with sterizar after use is vital to stop them spreading. Quick, easy and essential, cleaning chopping boards is one of the most basic kitchen hygiene rules.
Using our Sterizar multi surface sanitisers, spray onto the chopping boards and leave to soak in for about 30 seconds before scrubbing and rinsing off.
7. Bin basics
Regularly changing your bin is a key aspect of kitchen hygiene. Old rotting food in a bin will soon decompose and bacteria will start to form, so take your rubbish out on a daily basis to avoid any funny smells and avoid any spread of bacteria.
Once You have removed the bin bag from your bin. Using our sterizar multi propose wipes, wipe the inside of your bin to make sure there's been no spillages through the bin bag and to help keep the bin staying lovely and fresh.
8. Stop grease in its tracks
Have you ever wiped a greasy mark, only to find it has transferred from your cloth to every other surface in the kitchen. Try using a sterizar blue wipe instead – it’ll stop the spread of grease and bacteria.
9. Keep the fridge clean
Ensuring your fridge is clean, Left alone spills and decaying food can spread their nasties to everything else, so use our sterizar blue wipes on a daily basis between thorough fridge-cleaning sessions.
10. Scrubing your sink daily
Your sink is used regularly throughout the day, so it’ll become grimy and covered in bacteria quickly if it’s not kept clean. Again, this is one of those kitchen hygiene rules that doesn’t take much time, but that is well worth doing: just give your sink a quick scrub with a scourer and a spritz of sterizar multi propose sanitiser once a day. Wipe up any pooled water or spillages round the sink with sterizar multi purpose wipes to keep it hygienic between scrubs.
Whether it’s following food hygiene rules, changing your bin often or keeping your work surfaces clean, these basic kitchen hygiene rules will help you protect your family against food poisoning and illness.
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