We're hosting our 8th Annual Holiday Drop In & Decorate® event here in Rhode Island this weekend, and reminding everyone of the importance of working clean in the kitchen while you're baking and decorating.
If you prepare or handle food for donation, you must be sure you meet the highest standards of sanitation. Recipient agencies trust that the food you donate is safe for the agency's clients, so please follow these basic guidelines.
We recommend using non-latex thin vinyl gloves, available at any pharmacy and most supermarkets in boxes of 50. They're inexpensive and disposable.
- Do not handle cookies if you are sick (even if you are wearing gloves).
- Tie your hair back.
- Wash your hands thoroughly in hot soapy water.
- Wear gloves when handling any baked cookies, decorating cookies, or wrapping and packing cookies.
- Change gloves often.
- Do not reuse gloves.
- Do not wear gloves to the bathroom.
- Do not go outside with gloves on.
Have plenty of hand sanitizer near your kitchen and bathroom sinks, and near the front door.
And this is the hardest one: If one of your guests has a cold, please encourage him or her to stay home.
Follow these guidelines, and your wonderful cookies will be even better.
I just wrote a memo about our Drop In & Decorate event coming up at work next week. I ended it with "All gloves, all the time!"
Posted by: Lucia | December 04, 2009 at 06:08 AM
This is a great reminder to keep everyone healthy for the holidays...
Posted by: CINDY | December 04, 2009 at 08:24 AM
Excellent tips!
Paz
Posted by: Paz | December 04, 2009 at 11:39 PM