Home kitchens commonly fail in food safety tests, noted Research and Extension food safety specialist.
For example, one of the most frequent food safety mistakes also is one of the easiest to correct: Wash hands in hot, soapy water before and after eating food preparation. Re-wash each time raw foods are handled.
In India, thousands die from illnesses that can be prevented. To reduce risks from food borne illness in your home, use these tips:
Purchase food at a reputable store or food provider; buy fresh foods, canned foods free from dents and produce free from bruises or insect damage.
Store food promptly; wrap well.
Use leftovers in a day or two, or freeze them for later use.
Discard foods that have expired use-by dates.
Resist the temptation to sample raw foods, such as tasting cookie dough.
Wash utensils before re-using them. Same goes for cutting boards.
Choose a meat thermometer and use it regularly.
Keep the kitchen clean - make sanitizing your kitchen a habit. Mix one tablespoon of unscented laundry bleach with one gallon of warm water; use rubber gloves and a clean cloth to sanitize kitchen surfaces and cutting boards. Commercial kitchen cleaning products also can be purchased. Store sanitizing mixture out of children’s reach.
Wash–or replace–kitchen sponge often. Wash dishcloths in hot water with bleach.
Keep pets out of the kitchen and/or away from food preparation areas.
Are you feeling ill? Let someone else do the cooking.
Food - a very important thing for our health. We should know that how and what circumstances we should eat food?
Now a day people avoid oil, clarified butter etc. They afraid of being fatty and many diseases associated with it like heart disease, obesity, blood pressure etc. But our food should contain sufficient amount of clarified butter, oil and other substance. Is this fair to avoid oil and clarified butter from food? Not fair, because oil makes the food tasty and increase appetite and makes the food soft. It increases digestive fire so that food digests easily, increase strength, strength sensitive organ and make your skin glowing. It maintains lubrication between joints and reduces the risk of joint diseases.
The food should always be hot and fresh, so that it become tasty and easily digestible and circulates air. Fresh food is always nutritious where as stale and cold food is heavy, unhealthy and not nutritious.
What we eat is directly related to our senses. Food must be attractive. If the color, taste and feel of food is tasty and attractive it causes more secretion of saliva in mouth which helps in better digestion of food and its ingredients.
Therefore the food should be attractive and also served with style in clean and beautiful utensils.
We must take food in calm and cheerful environment. Anger, jealousy, worry, nervousness, fear and mental conditions spoil the taste of food. It also prevents proper secretion of saliva and mouth and secretion of digestive juice in stomach.