Exclusive: Study Reveals Americans’ Most Common Lies in the Kitchen and at the Table
Images via Angie's List, Joe Raedle/GettyUnwashed hands, the five-second rule and concealing unwanted food in napkins. A recent study at Angie’s List looked into how 2,000 variably honest Americans handled the heat in their kitchen and other culinary confessions.
The kitchen is the most germ-ridden part of the home, as one study found that the kitchen sink harbors 100,000 times more germs than the bathroom. This is why the U.S. government and CDC stress the importance of properly washing your hands before cooking. However, roughly only a third of Americans actually do this, with nearly 67 percent of cooks admitting to preparing food with unwashed hands.