Safe Food Preparation

When you stop to think about it, the kitchen is a potential minefield. There’s a reason why you heavily babyproof the kitchen when you have a toddler on the move. Safety in the kitchen is important with all the sharp things, electrical things close to water, potentially dangerous bacteria around every corner, not to mention the actual naked flames that you just casually cook on every day. Fire? Knives? Poisoning? It sounds like a horror film waiting to happen.

Here at Bosch, we’re passionate about making the kitchen a fun and creative place to be, so we’ve designed our food preparation appliances with food hygiene in mind along with handy safety features to keep you cooking with confidence.

The most common errors we make in the kitchen are often the most obvious and therefore the easiest to rectify - and maintaining good food hygiene is right up there at number one on the neglected priority list. While we all know to use different chopping boards for our meat and our vegetables, when it comes to food storage, we’re a bit more unorganised. Let’s start with the fridge, and here we have one very simple rule. Store your raw meat and fish separately, sealed and safe on the bottom shelf of the fridge where it’s coldest and won’t leak or drip onto any other produce.

To help you store your food like a pro, one brilliant food prep feature on our Bosch ErgoMixx hand blender is the fresh vacuum system which allows you to perfectly seal your food while preserving the freshness and flavour. Whether you’re saving your cooked leftovers or storing that extra raw chicken breast that you didn’t need, the Bosch ErgoMixx and its range of handy containers will ensure that your food stays delicious and is sealed safely to enjoy whenever you’re ready to serve it.

While all our food prep products have been designed to be efficient and easy to use, you may not notice the extra details we’ve added to make them safer. For starters, our products are dishwasher safe. This may not sound like a big deal, but if you can simply pop your attachments straight into the dishwasher rather than scrabbling around in the bottom of a soapy sink for the chopping blade from your food mixer, you’re much more likely to avoid cutting your hands – one of the most common kitchen accidents.

The plastic attachments on our appliances are also BPA free, meaning that you can rest assured there are no nasty hidden chemicals in our plastics that may contaminate your food.

We’ve all seen the comedy videos of people blending smoothies or sauces and causing chaos in the kitchen when the liquid suddenly erupts all over the chef, the walls, the dog and the kids. But your video won’t be getting a £250 reward from ‘You’ve been Framed’ any time soon as all our hand blenders feature an innovative anti-splash function. This handy bit of tech ensures you won’t make a mess as you prepare your food, and you won’t burn your hands with unexpected splashes when you’re blending your soup or other hot dishes.

We can’t allow for every unusual safety hazard that may arise when you’re preparing your dinner, we can, however, ensure that our products have been developed to be fun and safe to use and will keep you cooking like a Bosch.