My yearly deep clean exposes all sorts of horrors – from mouldering vegetal matter to the disgusting contents of old jars
It is high summer, a time when many of us are forced to face up to a deeply unpalatable truth: that, when it comes to food, we are nothing more than slatterns. For this is the one time of the year when, in preparation for going on holiday, we can be guaranteed to clean the fridge. And I mean clean it properly. Of course, there will be people rolling their eyes at this; the ones who clean their fridge weekly and keep a pack of wet wipes to hand for whenever they have to touch door handles or stroke their children’s hair.
Everyone else will be nodding in recognition. As a warm-up for the food panel show I present for BBC Radio 4, I often ask audiences how often they clean their fridge. (Oh yeah, I know how to entertain.) The number that say it’s every week can be counted on the fingers of one hand after that hand has been through an industrial accident. For the rest the deep cleanse really is just a once a year job.
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