Category: Food Safety

Cutting boards are by far the highest risk item in the kitchen due to almost all foods coming into contact with these items that some stage of the preparation process.

The next step in the cleaning and sanitising pillar is deep cleaning. All areas in a kitchen should be cleaned. This is a fundamental aspect in not allowing bacteria to grow. As is often the case, the kitchen’s main priority to make and serve food.

This is the only proven method to remove dirt and kill bacteria. These steps need to be followed in the order set out, such that bacteria cannot hide behind dirt and grease, allowing a good contact time for the sanitiser to be effective. Areas such as tables, cutting boards, slicers and  blenders are all items that should have clean-as-you-go procedures in place.

The food safety pillars help us understand why hygiene is important, allows for active management of good hygiene practices and helps us implement a food safety monitoring system we can learn to implement the system by following the food safety pillars course on Udemy.com an introduction to hygiene and food safety.