You'll never get food poisoning from a frying pan, because you don't use soap. Or have you heard of people getting food poisoning, from not washing their bbq with soap?

Note I didn't say pots. Boiling isn't anywhere near as hot as frying.

The knife? The horrors! I do rinse it and remove all biological matter. Yes, there's still some there. I assure you the wooden block people use, is teeming with bacteria, so do you wash the knife before using it?

I wonder. I often pick fruit from trees, sometimes spit on it and then brush it off on my shirt. Do you do the same?

When you get home from the grocery store, do you wash all your veggies with soap? Or do you just use water? What about your fruit? All washed with soap?

If not, I assure you the fruit and vegetables are far worse than the knife, rinsed off.

And yes, I do wash my hands before preparing food -- and just before eating it. Veggies just aren't meat.

If they were, you'd never see someone eating an apple right from the store, a tree, or not washing them with soap first. I mean honestly, the grocery store apple has often traveled thousands of miles in a crate on a ship, been handled by people putting the food out, been handled by other customers, you, been in a bag that isn't sterilized.

I wonder again, how many use soap on that apple?

Of course when I eat an apple all that's left is the stem, so people are picky anyhow.

Wood chopping boards are actually not teeming with bacteria.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0362028X2...