Food & Drink1 min ago
Drying Up
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Does anyone know the latest guidelines in food handling on drying up?I was told today only to use kitchen roll,another person said change t towels everyday,this is for dealing with the publiThanks
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On recent hygiene I have taken, we were told never to use tea towels only paper towels if drying is required. We were never permitted to use yes to wells in are kitchens either. I only know what I was trained to do.
20:03 Fri 22nd Apr 2016
When I ran a sports club bar, many years ago, I had a constant battle with the (often elderly) volunteers who assisted me, because they kept drying the glasses with tea towels before putting them on the shelves and I tried to insist (as most pubs now do) that glasses should simply be allowed to drain (and NOT 'dried up' at all). That remains the best policy but it's clearly not so practical with things like dinner plates.
The Food Standards Agency simply says this:
"Wash or change dish cloths, tea towels, sponges and oven gloves regularly and let them dry before you use them again. Dirty, damp cloths are the perfect place for bacteria to breed"
https:/ /www.fo od.gov. uk/news -update s/campa igns/ki tchen-c heck
So the FSA certainly doesn't demand the use of 'one time' drying materials (such as kitchen roll) but such a policy might still be regarded as 'best practice'. (Conversely though, using up so much non-recyclable paper is far from being 'environmentally sound'!)
The Food Standards Agency simply says this:
"Wash or change dish cloths, tea towels, sponges and oven gloves regularly and let them dry before you use them again. Dirty, damp cloths are the perfect place for bacteria to breed"
https:/
So the FSA certainly doesn't demand the use of 'one time' drying materials (such as kitchen roll) but such a policy might still be regarded as 'best practice'. (Conversely though, using up so much non-recyclable paper is far from being 'environmentally sound'!)
I work in many commercial kitchens and you NEVER dry up. All items must be washed in hot water and detergent and then rinsed in clean water and left to drain and dry, this can be in a machine or by hand. The only time a cloth is used is to polish cutlery, the cutlery already clean from washing , not many places do that either, only 1 restaurant of all the places I work used a cloth to polish cutlery. The rest just put it through the dishwasher in a cutlery basket and leave it to dry.
I was taught it was a breach of health and safety to use a cloth to dry anything in a commercial kitchen!
I was taught it was a breach of health and safety to use a cloth to dry anything in a commercial kitchen!
I agree it is not actually against Health and safety rules, that was just what the place I was working at told us. But as a worker for one of the largest UK commercial catering companies in 7 locations we NEVER used tea towels or kitchen roll to dry items that had been washed, we were instructed that items must NEVER be hand dried and only left to drain and dry on their own.
I have also worked in the kitchens of 2 care homes and 3 schools again the rules were NO HAND DRYING of washed items.
I have also worked in the kitchens of 2 care homes and 3 schools again the rules were NO HAND DRYING of washed items.