Dirtiest Part of the Fridge

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You guys know I'm kind of a clean freak. Yeah,
I do a lot of the cleaning around our house.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
You do.

Speaker 3 (00:05):
You never cleaned up my house even though I've offered
you the opportunity before.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Well, offer me some money. That's the key thing you're
leaving out is money. But uh, now you clean out
the fridge. I don't really clean out the fridge because
you know what you want to keep, what you want
to toss, and all that stuff. But do you know
what the dirtiest part of your refrigerator is?

Speaker 4 (00:29):
How about the drawer that you like most people store
their meat in.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
No, it's not like the freezer or something. No, you're talking,
you're just.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Part of your refrigerator. What do you think it is
that someone on was that Sue on Facebook Live said
the vents? Oh it's not the vents, but.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
You have to change those filters out for the vents though. Yeah. Yeah,
that reminds me.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
I got to clean out, take those vents off, and
clean out the underneath the refrigerator.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Haven't done that?

Speaker 4 (01:00):
In a minuto, we're talking aboutator.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah, the refrigerator. What do you think the dirtiest part is?

Speaker 2 (01:09):
What else is there? There's the shelves mm hmm.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
The door shelves mm hmm hmm.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
What the handle?

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Oh, that makes sense, That makes perfect sense.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
This Reader's Digest talk to this health expert. He says
that that's the spot that most of us rarely clean.
The handle of your fridge. They're covered in germs. Uh,
for the same reason a doorknob is. We just touched
them a lot. Yeah, and you probably don't wipe the
handle off after you've raw chicken or meat or something

(01:43):
like that.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
No, you, I would never do that when you handle
raw meat and raw chicken, you you wash your hands
before you touch anything.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Well, some people probably don't, says, here are lots of
handles tested positive for salmonella colon, even staff.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
I gotta go wipe my handles because I feel like
I'm lacking on that.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
And I also feel like I'm lacking on the park
because I always forget where the little water thing is.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, water comes out.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah, there's gunk that can accumulate around that, and I
always forget to clean that.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
So I need to make a mental note.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yes, So how often should you be cleaning the handle
on your refrigerator? Several experts they talked to said daily
is okay, but you know, really you should disinfect the
handle of your fridge and freezer every time you cook.
It only takes a second.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
I normally wipe down the handle when I'm cleaning up
the kitchen, doing the counters and stuff like that. I
wipe that down, but I don't disinfect it, which I
probably so.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
I need to do that when I'm doing the counters
and stuff.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
Yeah, it doesn't take any time at.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
All disinfect your handles.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
I don't be cooking it often, so.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Still might be laying on the fridge or laying on
the couch, you know, scratching yourself or whatever and thinking
I need a snatch it up, and you go touch
the handle after you touched you know.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Do you have cameras and miles?

Speaker 4 (03:06):
Think about work fridges?

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Oh there was.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
There's a guy who works here who I see him
take his shirt and open up the refrigerator door.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Do you blame him? So that's probably a good move.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, all right, now I have to play this song
and go wipe down the handles.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
On the refrigerator here at work. That's a good point.
And didn't even think about that