"Where Germs Hide in Your Kitchen"


  • The...researchers found that refrigerator ice and water dispensers, spatulas, blender gaskets – the rubber seal at the base of the blender that helps prevent leaks – and refrigerator meat and vegetable compartments had the highest germ counts
  • Can openers were another offender, probably because people tend to use them and then plop them back into silverware drawers without cleaning or even rinsing them.
Read all about it (and how inadequate you are) in Anahad O'Connor's NY Times blog post.