A Tong Tip To Prevent Cross-Contamination or Food Safety 101

When you are dealing with raw and cooked food outside your kitchen, what should we do about food safety?

Follow my Tong Tip!!! I have been color-coding my tongs with red and green duct tape since I started grilling. The color-coding helps prevent cross-contamination of raw and cooked foods. The different colors help me to remember which pair of tongs I used for raw food, like chicken, and which are safe to use for the cooked food. I use the international colors of RED (STOP) and GREEN (GO) to make it easy to remember which tongs to use while cooking and which tongs to use once the food is done. Red means STOP, Raw food touched these and Green means GO, cooked food—or foods that don’t carry any bacteria like vegetables—touched these.

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