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Can you offer any suggestions on how to avoid the dust in my kitchen and cooking oil mixing to make that oily dust?

Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

Dan Marek - Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

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This event was on December 5, 2023

Join Chef Dan Marek in his virtual office as he welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to Ask Anything – from cooking techniques to course-specific questions, to how to turn your cooking passion into profit or simply hearing the perspective of a professional chef, Chef Dan is ready to answer them all.

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Question

ingrid ortega

Can you offer any suggestions on how to avoid the dust in my kitchen and cooking oil mixing to make that oily dust?

Answer

So yeah, that's basically, that happens in most kitchens, that oil kind of, uh, you know, kind of coating over things. So the best thing to actually get rid of that is to take, uh, a warm water, um, mixture with vinegar. So I'll typically do about a quarter, um, you know, vinegar to warm water and then take a rag and put it in there and then squeeze out, uh, the liquid and then go over the, the countertops and the back of the stove and the things like that to be able to get rid of any of that kind of oil, you know, that, uh, goes up in the air from, um, you know, frying or other things like that from oil, oil evaporating. That typically does happen very often and your hood will probably have to be cleaned on the inside of it as well. It should go up for the inside.

Dan Marek

Director of Plant-Based Culinary & Dev

*Dan Marek* is a chef educator who has been teaching vegan and vegetarian cooking for over 15 years. At Rouxbe, he is our Director of Plant-Based Culinary and Development where he helps develop content, classes and builds courses for many of our partners. Dan is a board member of Slow Food Austin, the Institute of Child Nutrition, and Conscious Capitalism. He has earned his BA in Journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University and holds certificates in Nutrition from Cornell University. Prior to his role with Rouxbe, Dan worked with Whole Kids Foundation training teachers and food service at schools across the country on nutrition and culinary best practices. He also worked as a Healthy Eating Educator at Whole Foods Market’s flagship store in Austin, TX, was a personal chef for some of Austin’s elite business people, taught classes in culinary techniques at Austin Community College, The Natural Epicurean, and Le Cordon Bleu. Dan also regularly volunteers cooking or speaking about nutrition for the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Marathon Kids, Health Alliance for Austin Musicians, and the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Austin and Central Texas.