Washing dishes in a
university residence is a difficult task. Firstly, since meals are served from a
cafeteria it is not expected that
students will produce many dishes. Those of us who
subsist largely off of
soups and
tea have an altogether differing situation, however. The above
menu is imposed through the restriction of heating devices in residence at the
University of British Columbia to just a
kettle. If the sole hot ingredient in a
recipe is
boiling water and the instructions for making it amount to 'stir and wait' then the food is appropriate for a
university life.
The lack of any sort of official food sanctioning or equipment does make it hard, though, to wash dishes. Like washing hands, washing dishes is an essential element to a strategy of
avoiding illness. Hence, what one must do is to immediately wash used dishes in the
bathroom using
hand soap and then proceeding to dry them with
toilet paper. This process is extremely ineffective for killing
micro-organisms and so the next stage is essential. Boil water in your trusty
kettle and immerse the
contaminated dishes in
boiling water for a period not under eight minutes. Since
puny prokaryotes cannot survive (generally) such rough treatment you ought to remain
typhoid free, at least for the present moment.