EW: THE AVERAGE barbecue CONTAINS TWICE AS MANY BACTERIA AS A TOILET SEAT

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: an average barbecue contains twice as many bacteria as a toilet seat.

Yesss, the sun is shining again and that automatically means a barbecue evening for us. Not just for us, by the way, they are glowing all over the country with cheeseburgers and pork belly. But, well, barbecues are often not cleaned properly. Some are even dirtier than the average toilet seat… EW!

Uhm yes, quite shocking. Because for those who thought that just quickly brushing the grill is enough, they are mistaken. ‘About 94% of Dutch barbecues are not cleaned well enough, which can have huge negative consequences,’ says Diederik Warmelink, who specializes in cleaning barbecues with his company BBQ-SPA.

Dirty
Food residues, molds, accumulated carbon residues, and in some cases even pests like maggots can cause a barbecue to be full of bacteria and carcinogenic substances. An average barbecue even contains more than twice as many (!) bacteria as the average toilet seat. Definitely not hygienic. When you light the barbecue? Then the smoke from it inevitably ends up in the food.

Fresh grill
The vast majority of Dutch people find cleaning the most annoying part of a barbecue evening. Still, it’s best to scrub the grills immediately after you’re done eating with a brush and then let them soak overnight in soapy water with, for example, soda. This way, you start every barbecue with a fresh grill and at least don’t end up with food poisoning.

And don’t want to do all that yourself? Then you can go to BBQ-Spa, which cleans everything for you.