If you don't want to totally ruin your life and if you want to continue enjoying going out for meals, then don't do what I did last week! Do not take a food-safety class! My hands are chapped and sore from washing them so often and so long because the instructors are cruel people who think that everyone absolutely must be terrified of germs. I have also gone through an entire box of latex gloves this week because no amount of washing will ever thoroughly clean your hands. The instructors insisted on showing pictures of restaurants kitchens that are filthy and are home to bugs, bacteria and rodents. They also cruelly showed video from hidden cameras brought into restaurant kitchens by health inspection staff which showed restaurant employees doing things I would have preferred not to know about. They told us that you can't wipe your clean hands with the same towel you are drying clean dish with! Why not, if everything is clean? On the bright side, they also said that you should never dry dishes (which I have detested since I was a child - I was always the dishwasher), but should let the dishes air dry - after you have properly washed, rinsed and sanitized, of course! These people have taken all the fun out of using slow cookers, leaving pizza out overnight and just "guessing" when food is cooked enough. We were barely an hour into our class when we were given our first exam! We were still reeling from the shock of having survived our own childhoods and of not having killed our children with our filthy habits and they expected us to answer a quiz! By the end of the day, we had convinced ourselves that our bodies - and those of our families - have learned to fight off whatever bacteria we inadvertently ingest, and that we were all going to be OK. Knowing the rules, but not necessarily blindly following them . . . it's a good thing!
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