Cleaning Stations

[MathGeek]

I appreciate this discussion. We use Calcasieu Point a lot and sometimes other fish cleaning stations. We are considering either a cutting board or a scrub pad and dish soap. I am leaning toward the scrub pad and dish soap. A cutting board would have to be washed before and after each use anyway, so would not reduce the need to cart around the dish soap and scrub pad. Most of the fish cleaning stations we use can be made usable with less than five minutes of soap and water.

Bleach as a disinfectant is really only effective on surfaces that are reasonably non-porous and that have been scrubbed with soap and water first anyway. You can't really sterilize a surface with bird poo on it with a bit of bleach without scrubbing away the bird poo first. The bleach will probably get the last 1% of the germs, but the soap and water are needed to remove the 99% of the germs and the bulk poo (and any other fish goo) first.