Cook the food and clean the cloths!

We are now being told to put cleaning cloths in the microwave to kill the germs.

A team of environmental engineers in Florida soaked cloths in faecal contaminated water (like you do) then cooked them in a microwave. Between 4-10 minutes is required to kill everything, but most bacteria, including E.coli and salmonella, are zapped in 2 minutes. Cloths need to be damp and 'cooked' until steaming to kill most bugs - at around 71C. Yummy.

Reports don't say at what time the sponge is likely to set alight so if, like me, you don't generally stand there watching the microwave cook, I suggest you don't go off multi-tasking!

Why do we make things so complicated? They must be laughing their socks off in Europe. We need to teach our kids to eat food that looks like food, wash their hands after going to the toilet and wash, disinfect and throw away those cloths!! Remember, the Americans spent years and $millions inventing a pen to write in space - the Russians had the sense to use a pencil.