862. Wearing "New" Clothes Without Washing

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of wearing "new" (to you) clothes without washing first.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Robot or Not? - a podcast from The Incomparable
• Ep. 604: "Unintentional Curator" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann
• Potential Skin Pathogens on Second Hand Clothes and the Effectiveness of Disinfection Methods - Semantic Scholar
• "Public Health Implications of Retailer Resale of Returned Textile Clot" by Antonette M. A. Francis-Shearer
• Contaminated clothing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriers is a potential source of transmission - ScienceDirect
• Second-Hand Clothe, a New Threat for Acquiring Parasitic Infection - PMC

834. Washing Drinking Glasses With Only Hot Water and Friction

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of washing drinking glasses with only hot water and friction.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Still too hot: Examination of water temperature and water heater characteristics 24 years after manufacturers adopt voluntary temperature setting - PMC
• Quantifying the Effects of Water Temperature, Soap Volume, Lather Time, and Antimicrobial Soap as Variables in the Removal of Escherichia coli ATCC 11229 from Hands - ScienceDirect
• 316. Using Cups to Scoop Water Out of a Shared Bowl — Risky or Not?

786. Never Washing the Salad Spinner

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from never washing your salad spinner with soap and water.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• What are Pencil Crayons? | Answered | K-5 Teaching Resources
• Biosafety Challenges for the Food Microbiology Laboratory - Montville - 2012 - Journal of Food Safety - Wiley Online Library
• Federal Indifference to Laboratory-Acquired Infections
• 230. Un-cleanable Salad Spinners — Risky or Not?
• Performance of a manually operated salad spinner centrifuge for serum separation in the healthy domestic horse (Equus caballus) and southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) - Cassady - 2023 - Veterinary Clinical Pathology - Wiley Online Library
• Observations of Consumer Salad Preparation

701. Reusing Unwashed Cutlery With Food Particles

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks reusing unwashed cutlery that has food particles attached.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Food Utensil Bacteriology - PMC
• Microbiological assessment of cutleries - MedCrave online
• Contamination of knives and graters by bacterial foodborne pathogens during slicing and grating of produce - ScienceDirect
• Enterobacter aerogenes B199A May Be an Effective Surrogate for Quantifying Transfer of Salmonella Newport 96E01152C-TX from Cucumber Peel to Edible Flesh and Peeler during Peeling - ScienceDirect

695. Rinsing Your Turkey in the Sink

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from rinsing your turkey in the sink.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• 1: Non-Canonical First Episode — Risky or Not?
• Food Safety Consumer Research Project: Meal Preparation Experiment Related to Poultry Washing
• A brief history of chicken washing
• Should You Wash Chicken?
• Nutrition Security and Food Safety in Rural Texas - College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
• Merch — Risky or Not?

656. Eating Fruit and Vegetables Washed With Cleaning Vinegar

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating fruit and vegetables washed with cleaning vinegar.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• 628. Washing Produce in the Dishwasher — Risky or Not?
• Great Value Cleaning Vinegar All-Purpose Cleaner, 64 fl oz - Walmart.com
• Ingredient Disclosure - Great Value Cleaning Vinegar All Purpose Cleaner
• CAS REGISTRY | CAS
• CAS 64-19-7 | Sigma-Aldrich
• 476. Worlds Purest Cookie — Risky or Not?

411. Brewing More Coffee Without Cleaning the Carafe and Filter Basket

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of brewing more coffee without cleaning the carafe and filter basket.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Risky or Not? episodes with Coffee tag

344. Max's Unwashed Basil

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks making pesto from homegrown basil without washing it first.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Full article: Surface decontamination of Salmonella Typhimurium and Escherichia coli on sweet basil by ozone microbubbles

208. Not Washing Coffee Making Devices

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from not washing coffee making devices.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Merch — Risky or Not?
• IAFP Foundation - International Association for Food Protection
• AeroPress - Official Store, Replacement Parts And Recipes
• Coffee and spent coffee extracts protect against cell mutagens and inhibit growth of food-borne pathogen microorganisms - ScienceDirect

79. Not Washing Sodastream Bottles

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risk of rinsing (not washing) your Sodastream bottles between uses.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼

Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• SodaStream Bottle Cleaning Tips -
• Sodastream Zylinder selbst nachfüllen
• An overview of microorganisms and factors contributing for the microbial stability of carbonated soft drinks - ScienceDirect
• Surface Sanitation and Microbiological Food Quality of a University Foodservice Operation - Buckalew - 1996 - Foodservice Research International - Wiley Online Library

7: Unwashed Coffee Cups

Dr. Don and Professor Ben discuss the risks of reusing your coffee cup without washing in between.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼

Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• A microbial survey of office coffee cups and effectiveness of an office cup washer for reduction of bacteria.
• Your office coffee cup is likely covered in poop