littlek wrote:mmm, I eat raw batter, with eggs in it, and I've never been sick from them. And painters paint with yolk in their colors. I still want soap and water over the surfaces which contact with eggs and raw meat. Not bleach, or other chemicals, just some soapy water.
Me, too. Eggs don't scare me. I am a little more concerned about chicken -- one reason I prefer to use chickens from small, natural farms instead of gigantic processing plants.
I think that you have a huge point and bone to pick with these housemates. Since they're not doing this -- you have to. I'd think that the hot soapy water would be enough of a treatment if it is a wooden board without large splits in the wood. The bleach treatment is what restaurants use (or used to use) and something you might want to do if you're having to use a long-unwashed board.
I worked for a bit in a hotel in Barrow, Alaska... a place where the bacteria exists inside and in people and other living critters... but not outside (for obvious reasons). Some of the people there were astounding in their mis-understandings or their drunkenness. (For example, many never understood or used the flush mechanism on a toilet and would compound the problem by continuing to use said unflushed appliance. That had to be cleared out by some unlucky person using double bags of heavy-duty plastic... almost daily.)
It became a little freaky... and we "flushed" all wooden boards with bleach every day.
Girl Scouts also use bleach. Standard practice while camping is to have three large basins for cleaning dishes. There is the hot soapy water basin, the hot rinse water basin, and the cool bleach water basin. Little girls put their little dishes & cutlery in their special GS-approved net bags, then douse their dishes first in one, then the next, then the last basin. Works well.
