Wash your hands with hot soapy water for ~20 seconds (not sanitizer)
Use hot, soapy water and scrub for about 20 seconds; hand sanitizer isn’t a substitute for washing when cooking.
Before and during cooking, wash your hands with hot soapy water for roughly 20 seconds (or long enough to do a thorough wash). The video emphasizes that hand sanitizer (e.g., Purell) does not count as washing your hands for kitchen hygiene.
The short version
- Use hot soapy water
- Scrub for ~20 seconds
- Don’t rely on hand sanitizer as “washing”
What goes wrong
Using hand sanitizer instead of washing hands
Wash with hot soapy water for ~20 seconds
Why it works
Soap and friction physically remove germs and contamination from your hands; sanitizer doesn’t replace that cleaning step in the kitchen workflow.
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