Food Hygiene: The Importance of Using Different (dentists) Chopping Boards for Different Foods
No commentsBy Andrea Flint
Food Hygiene - it’s a topic you probably have heard on televised cooking shows. There is a very good reason to understand the importance of using different chopping boards for different foods. There are some important differences in chopping boards as well, in the materials they are made from.
First, why use different chopping boards for different foods? This is a basic sanitation issue. Any time you cut with a blade, there can be tiny grooves left in the cutting boards. The grooves can harbor germs, and bacteria. It is very important to separate raw from cooked foods, in particular meats and poultry. You should also separate the meat from the poultry. This is accomplished by having several boards available and marked for each particular use.
By cutting raw meat on a board and later using the same board for working with cooked meat, the juices and any bacteria from the raw meat are transferred to the cooked meat, and can cause intestinal problems for the person who then eats that cooked meat. The same is true for raw vegetables. Of course, you would wash the vegetables to rid them of dirt and any contaminants, but with the groove situation and bacteria, you could also transfer the raw vegetable problems to your cooked food.
A far better solution is to purchase several chopping boards. If you have ever watched a certain popular cooking show chef, surely you would have heard him caution regarding the important of using different chopping boards. He mentions the ‘chicken police’ and ‘pork police’, and even has different colored cutting boards for each so they do not get mixed up. This is a great idea you can copy!
You can wash and disinfect chopping boards with soapy warm water, and a light diluted bleach solution. You can re-plane wood boards, and clean with coarse salt. Replace your board when needed. Do not put wood boards into dishwashers or soak them in water. A very light grade food quality mineral oil can be used on wood boards to help keep water out of the grooves.
Second, what about the materials chopping boards are made from? Common kitchen chopping boards are made from wood or plastic. Others are available, made from steel, glass, marble, or corian, but although these may be easier to clean than wood or plastic, they can damage your knife blade edges.
Food Hygiene starts with the importance of using different chopping boards for different foods. It ends with healthy meals and healthy, happy people!
Andrea writes for a kitchen accessories site where you can browse a huge range of cooking products including chopping boards.
Creating The Brilliant Smile You Deserve
What’s The Difference Between Dental Plans?
By Matt Chang
Let us first understand what dental insurance is. Dental insurance is a type of insurance in which a person buys a form of hedge against the high cost of medical procdedure by paying for a plan that incurs monthly or annual premiums. Those premiums are paid to a dental insurance company. In turn the dental insurance company provides dental insurance coverage against dental costs by taking on the risk. They make their money by spreading the risk over a large number of people. If they take in more in dental insurance premiums than they pay out in premium benefits, then they make money.
What this means to you is, if there are any dental costs borne by the insured during the insurance period, the dental insurance company will reimburse the costs incurred by the insured.
Most of the health insurance provided today has dental insurance provided in it. So usually there is no need to buy a separate dental insurance. If your medical or health insurance does not provide dental insurance, you can obtain dental insurance in your health insurance by increasing your premium by a small amount. This depends on whether your medical provides the rider option for dental. If your medical does not provide the rider option, then you need to look somewhere else for dental with an individual plan.
There are tax benefits also for going for having a dental plan. In the united states, the premium you pay for health insurance is deducted from the taxable income, thereby you end up paying lesser taxes. So what is happening is, the government allows you to subtract the cost of the medical from your gross income, and then applies taxes to what is left. The result is your taxable base income is smaller.
Family dental insurance provides dental insurance to the entire family. It is better to go for this type of dental insurance compared to individual dental insurance. Since family dental insurance is much cheaper than individual dental insurance. In insurance as the number of people increase in the plan the premium per head reduces. This is because the risk gets distributed. The actual over all cost of the family insurance is greater than family insurance, but the per person cost is lower. This works as a volume discount basically.
If your employer is providing dental insurance, then it is the best bet. You should go for this type of insurance if your employer is providing it as the major part of the premium is paid by the employer and the remaining part is paid by you.
Studies have also indicated that people with dental plans, have the tendency to have better dental health as they go for preventive dental checkups. As always, a solid preventative maintenance program is going to cost you less in the long run. Incremental costs incurred for the preventative maintenance is going to help prevent costly procedures like cavities, root canals, periodontal disease, and help to increase the money that is in your pocket.
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