BHS Lab Safety and Sanitation

Always cut/chop food on a __?

• Chair
• Counter
• Stove Top
• Cutting Board

What procedures will help prevent burns in the kitchen?

• use oven mitts
• stand to the side when opening the oven
• pull oven racks out instead of reaching in
• all of the above

If you are not sure what to do during a lab activity:

• guess
• change lab partners
• ask a teacher
• just sit quietly and do nothing

Keeping your work area neat and clean is important because:

• My teacher is a neat-freak
• I won't lose my supplies in the clutter.
• It keeps the room from looking messy.
• It helps prevent accidents.

If you spill something on the floor, what should you do?

• Leave it, someone else will clean it
• Tell the teacher and get them to clean it
• Wipe it up immediatley
• Pretend it didn't happen

The same dish (cloth) towel is great for drying the hands, cleaning the counters and doing the dishes.

• True
• False

Which of the following sets of steps, gives the best steps for washing the hands?

• Soap, scrub for a few seconds, rinse, dry with a paper towel.
• Wet the hands with the hottest water you can stand, soap and lather, scrub for 30 seconds, rinse and dry with paper towel.
• Soap, scrub for a few seconds, rinse and dry with a dish (cloth) towel.
• Rinse and dry with a paper towel.

What is this?

• oven mitt
• kitchen glove
• stove glove
• kitchen spatula

What is this?

• shirt
• blouse
• blanket
• apron

It's fine to sit on the counters during cooking lab

• how dare you?!  no!
• sure
• only if there is no food
• always