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Can I sterilize wooden tableware (bowls, chopsticks, spoons) in the sterilizer?

2023/05/22

Wooden chopsticks cannot be disinfected in the high-temperature sterilization layer of the sterilization cabinet.

 

General disinfection cabinets are divided into low-temperature sterilizers and high-temperature sterilizers, such as the use of high-temperature sterilizers will appear wooden chopsticks deformation oh! High disinfection cabinets are generally ceramic and stainless steel and other high-temperature tableware, such as wooden chopsticks, plastic and amine tableware, it is recommended to use low-temperature disinfection cabinets can also achieve the disinfection effect.

 

Washing and drying them every day is just an easy way to remove most disease-causing microorganisms from chopsticks, but things like Staphylococcus aureus and hepatitis virus cannot be completely killed.

 

Therefore, chopsticks, cages and scrubbing cloths should be placed in a cage drawer or steamed in boiling water for half an hour every week. Or use a home sterilizer to disinfect chopsticks and kill all bacteria and viruses and other disease-causing microorganisms. In the case of high temperature resistant wooden, resin or plastic chopsticks, you can also put them in a microwave oven for 3 minutes after cleaning to kill pathogenic microorganisms such as Staphylococcus aureus and Mycobacterium tuberculosis as well.