Do you really know what's growing inside your kitchen sink?

Do you really know what's growing inside your kitchen sink?

Germs are all around us, but to varying degrees...

Kitchen sink with a bacteria ridden petri dish
Kitchen sink with a bacteria ridden petri dish/TikTok Screenshot/@whatmightgrow

We go about our day to day not really knowing what germs and bacteria surround us. 

And, somehow, we think that may be a better way of living than if we went around testing surfaces inside a petri dish. 

But one TikTok page dedicates its content to delve into what is growing around us. 

The page is called 'What Might Grow' and the video that grabbed our attention had to do with testing how clean our kitchen sinks are...

WATCH what happens when the kitchen sink is tested for bacteria growth. 

Courtesy of TikTok

@whatmightgrow How well does dish soap and hot water clean your sink? Let’s find out! #timelapse #bacteria #science #kitchen #microbiology #petridish ♬ Evil Morty (From "Rick and Morty") - Andrew Seoul

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The irony in it all is him saying that cleaning with dish soap and hot water was considerably better in comparison...

His motivation behind testing the kitchen sink came after seeing a video of a person doing food prep with pasta inside a kitchen sink.

Now, as much as we are not about to go and check what's growing in our sink under a microscope, we do pride ourselves on cleanliness. 

And prepping food directly inside the kitchen sink is a no-no for us. 

Check out the video below, courtesy of TikTok

@janelleandkate Best Mac n cheese ever. #macncheese #sinkcooking #cooking #cook #recipe #diy ♬ Cool Kids (our sped up version) - Echosmith

Check out what he reveals after cleaning with dish soap and bleach. Spoiler alert, it seems bleach does kill 99.9% of germs. 

Courtesy of TikTok

@whatmightgrow How effective is bleach as a disinfectant? #fyp #whatmightgrow #bacteria #timelapse ♬ O Fortuna aus Carmina Burana - Collegium vocale Innsbruck & Vocappella Innsbruck & Jauna Muzika Vilnius & Cappella Istropolitana & Art of Brass Hans Gansch & Schlagzeugensemble Peter Sadlo

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