Pathogens lurk in homes and restaurants. Some, moreover, are linked to very common hygiene errors and to which we do not give enough importance since they can suppose a source of germs and cross contamination. This has been pointed out by the food technologist and scientific disseminator Mario Sánchez in his account on Twitter. There he has put one of the most common elements on any restaurant table under the magnifying glass: the bread basket.
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This is the real detail that you should be paying attention to when you buy the bread
we are not referring to the prohibited practice of reusing bread that customers do not consume (either serving it again at a different table or taking advantage of it to turn it into crumbs, breadcrumbs or use it again in the kitchen). In this case, the gesture that Sánchez has criticized from Twitter has to do with the container where we serve the bread.
In other words, it reads the primer to the classic wicker baskets or bread baskets in which restaurants usually put the sliced bread to take it to the months and which, in the words of this technologist and popularizer, is a real “marranada”.
It points out, above all, those cases in which we did not even find a minimal napkin that separates the bread from the basket itself. This is something that could minimize possible contamination although, as he explains in the video, it is difficult to avoid.
The problem is in the very composition of the wicker bread baskets, since it is a porous material which, in addition, has a shape that makes it more difficult to clean it in depth, allowing crumbs and other types of dirt to accumulate there.
We cannot fail to take into account that the material directly affects the way food is preserved. So, in this case, the porosity of the wicker and the braiding make it extremely difficult to clean well (if it is cleaned). In addition, if we add to this that it is an object that is usually stacked and that many people touch in restaurants, the risk of pathogens increases.
Taking all this into account, what Mario Sánchez proposes is that there is at least one paper napkin between the cut bread and the bread basket. Although it would be best to use non-porous and easy-to-clean containers such as metal, ceramic or plastic bowls, which will always be more hygienic than the intricate braid of wicker.
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The most common hygiene mistake of restaurants with bread: you had not noticed but it will make you shout “aarg”
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