{"id":260,"date":"2007-01-24T13:36:53","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T12:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/24\/using-a-microwave-oven-to-sterilise-your-dishcloth\/"},"modified":"2009-01-25T21:10:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T21:10:43","slug":"using-a-microwave-oven-to-sterilise-your-dishcloth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/24\/using-a-microwave-oven-to-sterilise-your-dishcloth\/","title":{"rendered":"Using a Microwave Oven to sterilise your dishcloth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"alignright\" src='\/blog\/wp-content\/microwave.jpg' alt='Microwave' \/>The BBC is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/health\/6293735.stm\">carrying a story<\/a> that scientists have &#8220;discovered a new weapon against the germs which cause food poisoning &#8211; the microwave oven.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Forgive me, but they haven&#8217;t &#8216;discovered&#8217; anything. <strong>This is an old trick<\/strong>. Basically the water in the wet cloth or sponge gets heated to boiling point, and in doing so sterilises the cloth.<\/p>\n<p>They may have done some research into how effective it is, but it is not a &#8216;discovery&#8217; by a long shot.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: The Fire Brigade is now warning against doing this, because some pillocks decided to try it <strong>without wetting the cloth<\/strong>! Some people should not be allowed to breed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC is carrying a story that scientists have &#8220;discovered a new weapon against the germs which cause food poisoning &#8211; the microwave oven.&#8221; Forgive me, but they haven&#8217;t &#8216;discovered&#8217; anything. This is an old trick. Basically the water in the wet cloth or sponge gets heated to boiling point, and in doing so sterilises [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,16,41],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bbc","tag-dodgy-reporting","tag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}