Comment on Ant smell

• GroundedGator@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There is a difference between standard bleach and pinesol usage and using it as a way to conceal other smells or problems. Or even worse, not knowing how to use those chemicals to clean. You know how to use a weak bleach solution for cooking surfaces, does your bartender? I’ve seen front of house employees over use cleaning chemicals because isn’t it better to use stronger chemicals to clean. My favorite was the hostess who didn’t want to clean the bathroom so she would just fill the soap and and paper products and fill a spray bottle with Lysol that she would spray around to give the smell of a clean bathroom.

  It’s unlikely anyone will notice the smell of properly used cleaning products.

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  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My favorite was the hostess who didn’t want to clean the bathroom so she would just fill the soap and and paper products and fill a spray bottle with Lysol that she would spray around to give the smell of a clean bathroom.

    This is exactly the kind of BS I’m talking about. I once knew some pool lifeguards that had to rotate through bathroom cleaning duty. I overheard that their MO was to just get everything wet with a hose, splash pinesol on the floor, and call it a day.

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  • AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, I can see a place smelling like a public swimming pool being off-putting. 10% bleach is really common across the food industry, though. Making bread, jerky, kombucha, and various grains, each facility had the same bleach concentration for cleaning (among other cleaning and sanitizing solutions).

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  • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    and fill a spray bottle with Lysol that she would spray around to give the smell of a clean bathroom

    Depending upon the formula of Lysol, that’s actually worse than not doing anything.
    We’ve got a brand called Lyzol and that seems to be the same formula as Lysol, before it got regulated in the US. If this were to be sprayed, I’d consider the area poisoned.

    Lyzol

    This contains some chemical that lingers even if you wash the floor with water afterwards and slowly produces volatile compounds, and stays for > a week. This gives me (and a few other people on quora) a headache. Nowadays, I use Dettol disinfectant liquid, which stops smelling after about 1/2 hour of wind.

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  • John_McMurray@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I am my bartender. Also the janitor and cook

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• Pilferjinx@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is basically evey kitchen I’ve worked in. The pine sol can be substituted or more commonly mixed with other detergents.

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