Toilet Water Cleaner Than Ice In Fast Food Places

[shanstress70]

http://news.tbo.com/news/metro/MGBQOZP9MJE.html

The 12-year-old compared the ice used in the drinks with the water from toilet bowls in the same restaurants. Jasmine said she found the results startling.

"I thought there might be a little bacteria in the ice, but I never expected it to be this much," she said. "And I never thought the toilet water would be cleaner."

Not that we frequent fast food places that often, but we're about to go on a weekend road trip to the beach, and you can bet we'll have lots of bottled water in the car!

[krowe]

Yikes! and Yuk!

[StrawberryFields]

My daughter always orders her drinks with "No Ice" now I know why.

[mom_of_jcchlsm]

well, I always order my drinks without ice, too, but it's becasue I don't like watered down soda, and I figure if I'm paying way too much for a glass of sweetened water anyway, I might as well get a whole glass instead of only 1/3 of the glass.

[lisajo]

OH Yuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! maybe that is why i havent felt to good lately, to much diet coke from the gas station!

[Fiannan]

Saw an episode of Mythbusters the other day and they did a bacteria count on various location in their shop and found the toilet seat the least likely to contain bacteria.

And while this may freak people out, the reason you should wash your hands after using the bathroom (at least a number 1) is because of the materials that you might touch in the bathroom. If you are not a carrier of hepatitis or similar disease that part of your body is quite clean if you shower every day.

Oh, and when traveling NEVER allow people in eating establishments to put ice in your water. The western world is about the only place you can safely drink water our of the tap.

[Acez]

i might puke now...

[Laureltree]

Doesn't suprize me, they don't clean the machines that often. They are suppose to clean them weekly, most clean them every 6 months...SCARY>..

[Palerider]

Now I know why the food taste so good at some of the places......LOL

[Guest MrsS]

My husband is a stationary engineer at the AZ State University, he operates/maintains the heating and cooling systems for the campus. They clean the chillers and boilers daily!

He says that the refrigerant coils of the ice machines should be cleaned DAILY!

I used to bartend (in my very inactive days), the icemaker we had in the bar was my responsibility to keep clean. Which I did daily, before I started my shift. There are these wires that are heated, that cut the sheets of ice into cubes. THOSE, also need to cleaned daily. As do the bins where the ice drops into and is stored.

Cleaning weekly is lazy, and cleaning monthly is a sign of extremely poor management. It is also a sign that management isn't educated in the proper management of their duties.

[Cal]

My husband is a stationary engineer at the AZ State University, he operates/maintains the heating and cooling systems for the campus. They clean the chillers and boilers daily!

He says that the refrigerant coils of the ice machines should be cleaned DAILY!

I used to bartend (in my very inactive days), the icemaker we had in the bar was my responsibility to keep clean. Which I did daily, before I started my shift. There are these wires that are heated, that cut the sheets of ice into cubes. THOSE, also need to cleaned daily. As do the bins where the ice drops into and is stored.

Cleaning weekly is lazy, and cleaning monthly is a sign of extremely poor management. It is also a sign that management isn't educated in the proper management of their duties.

Does that mean he just sits around doing nothing all day! Sorry, I just couldn't resist.

By the way, for what it is worth, I've been using ice from ice machines for 30 years at least, and don't recall getting sick from any of them. Most bacteria are very host and tissue specific. That means that bacteria that will grow on, say, ice machine coils, probably can't live inside the human digestive track. So the chances of that kind of bacteria doing you any harm are pretty small.

[Guest MrsS]

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My husband is a stationary engineer at the AZ State University, he operates/maintains the heating and cooling systems for the campus. They clean the chillers and boilers daily!

He says that the refrigerant coils of the ice machines should be cleaned DAILY!

I used to bartend (in my very inactive days), the icemaker we had in the bar was my responsibility to keep clean. Which I did daily, before I started my shift. There are these wires that are heated, that cut the sheets of ice into cubes. THOSE, also need to cleaned daily. As do the bins where the ice drops into and is stored.

Cleaning weekly is lazy, and cleaning monthly is a sign of extremely poor management. It is also a sign that management isn't educated in the proper management of their duties.

Does that mean he just sits around doing nothing all day! Sorry, I just couldn't resist.

By the way, for what it is worth, I've been using ice from ice machines for 30 years at least, and don't recall getting sick from any of them. Most bacteria are very host and tissue specific. That means that bacteria that will grow on, say, ice machine coils, probably can't live inside the human digestive track. So the chances of that kind of bacteria doing you any harm are pretty small.

That is okay the first time I heard it, I thought he had something to do with paper ~ stationary.

Your system has built up a resistance to it, Anti-bodies, which is good. We are talking bacteria that grow once they hit the ice bin. Nasty stuff ~ the reason husband cleans the chillers and boilers daily is to reduce the EColie(sp?!) bacterium. If you had ever seen the nasty stuff that is growing on those wires, you would have anything to do with the ice.

When it comes to toliet water, the cleaner water is inside a clean tank. Cold moving water is more difficult for the bacteria to grow on. The filthiest part of the toilet is the outside and base of the bowl! When I go to public restrooms I not only use the paper seat covers, I also carry a can of disenfectant spray and spray the outside of the bowl, don't need those nasty germs on my clothes and then directly on me legs and bum! To keep my hands cleaner, I use a bit of t.paper between my hand and the flush handle. I do prefer the flush handles that require a foot to activate it, or do so on their own when you stand up.

[shanstress70]

By the way, for what it is worth, I've been using ice from ice machines for 30 years at least, and don't recall getting sick from any of them. Most bacteria are very host and tissue specific. That means that bacteria that will grow on, say, ice machine coils, probably can't live inside the human digestive track. So the chances of that kind of bacteria doing you any harm are pretty small.

Just an idea here that maybe you wouldn't remember getting sick from ice machines, because the thought wouldn't occur to you. It is my opinion that a lot of times when we get an upset stomach, which we refer to as a 'stomach bug', that it may be some bacteria from a source such as this that causes it.

But maybe you're right, and our immune systems are just equipped to fight this stuff after being exposed to it for so long.

[StrawberryFields]

This makes me wonder a lil about my own ice machines built into the freezer.