Is it okay to soak the bowl and wash it at night? Poison expert: Bacteria exploded after more than 4 hours

 9:23am, 21 August 2025

Does everyone have the same worries as William? Cooking ingredients is not a big problem, but what really hurts William is actually the "dish washing" that comes in a tight way.

Although there are many people eating outside in Taiwan, the current turmoil has made many people willing to spend more time in order to eat healthier, just to cook at home. Of course, cooking by oneself is not a difficult task, and there is also a lot of fun in the process, but at the end of the meal, no matter how romantic it is, it still has to face it, it is just to wash dishes.

At William's house, as long as he is a cook, he will not be the one who is responsible for washing dishes. Because William's cooking art is actually not afraid to be respectful, overeating will make people fatter and successful. Naturally, William will definitely not be responsible for cooking, so he practices the ability to wash dishes. Because of the decades of washing dishes, I have to clean the dishes without leaving any oil or bacteria. There are some small steps, but there are also some small things that are easy to ignore. There are several examples:

1. Behave in a habit and stack the dirty plates and bowls

2. If you don't wash it in time, soak the dirty plates together for a long time

3. If you don't wash anything, you can't turn off the rinse, and use the raw solution directly

4. If you lack patience, you won't wash it clean

5. Put the dishes and chopsticks away before they are dried

6. After washing dishes and chopsticks, do you not wash the rags? Is it the same as everyone's habits? Let’s explain the consequences of these wrong methods!

1. The bowls and plates are stacked together, but they cannot wash them in time:

Wait until the space is free, and some people even soak for most of the day. When soaking a bowl in water, it is best not to last more than 4 hours, because the grease or leftovers in the bowl will make bacteria particularly easy to reproduce. About 1 to 4 hours is the appropriate period for bacteria, and it will reproduce in large quantities after 4 hours. Moreover, the stacking of oily bowls can easily cause cross-contamination, so it is important to separate the bowls from food, mainly because the sink may contain bacteria such as salmonella, morphine, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, and dysentery, which are easily attached to the bowls.

2. Use detergent serum when washing, and use it if it is not even thin:

How many people like William, whether it is oily or oilless, like to use detergent serum. They always feel that it is clean, and they usually put the detergent serum on a vegetable and melon cloth and wash it with a little water. The main ingredient of the detergent is surfactant. If you don’t have the patience to clean it completely, it will be left on the tableware. Excessive contact with the detergent will definitely not be a good thing for the human body.

It is recommended that you first determine whether the food you eat is oily. For example, if you only add salt to the green vegetables, no more soybean or sesame oil to adjust the flavor, in fact, there is no need to clean the food by washing. Furthermore, the detergent semen is usually very heavy. It is very reasonable to dilute it into the water and then wash the dishes after a little bit of it, and it will not hurt your hands. Like William, it is ten times more diluted.

3. If the bowls and chopsticks are not dried, wipe them with a rag:

Some people always like to wash the dishes and chopsticks quickly. They just wipe them with a rag so that they don’t let the bowls and chopsticks drip water be stacked directly. This will cause bacteria to grow and not be clean. It is best to have a bowl rack at home, and put it on and control the water to dry after washing. You can also use a disinfectant cabinet, but you must be careful that the dish rack or dish basin should also be cleaned frequently, otherwise the clean dishes and chopsticks will easily be contaminated again.

4. The rag must be cleaned:

Research has found that if the rag is not washed for a long time, the total number of bacteria on a single rag can reach 500 billion! To avoid this problem, as long as you hear the smell of the rag, it means that bacteria are beginning to grow. You must remove it at this time, so as not to save time.

Generally speaking, it is necessary to change the rag once a month. The rag is preferably made of wood-fiber material, with strong water and oil-exhaustion properties, and it is not easy to make bacteria stick. However, is it difficult to clean it every day?

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