• People are boiling their wooden spoons on TikTok. I won't be joining them | Rachel Cooke

    5 days ago - By The Guardian

    I'm the daughter of a microbiologist - which is why this crusade against unseen germs doesn't impress me A few weeks ago, I finally plucked up the courage and went in... to the shadowy place at the back of the fridge where no hand ever goes (sorry if you were expecting something more daring). To be clear, our fridge is quite clean, relatively speaking: nothing oozes in its salad crisper; no cheese rind awaits death in the place where the butter lives. But the top shelf, where I keep jars, open but not yet empty, was becoming too crowded. In the front row, I could see a Kilner of gherkins...
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