Data on European kitchen layouts belonging to vulnerable consumers (elderly people and young families with children or pregnant women) and risk-takers (young single men)

• Autor(a) principal: Mihalache, Octavian Augustin
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Møretrø, Trond, Borda, Daniela, Dumitraşcu, Loredana, Neagu, Corina, Nguyen-The, Christophe, Maître, Isabelle, Didier, Pierrine, Teixeira, Paula, Junqueira, Luis, Truninger, Monica, Izsó, Tekla, Kasza, Gyula, Skuland, Silje Elisabeth, Langsrud, Solveig, Nicolau, Anca Ioana
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/49939
• topic: Sink; Stove; Refrigerator; Countertop; Balcony; Table; Work triangle; Safety triangle

The data presented here capture the structure of kitchen lay- outs belonging to consumers vulnerable to foodborne dis- eases and food risk-takers. Data were collected in the frame of the SafeConsume project by multidisciplinary research teams that visited consumers during preparing a meal and had the possibility to examine their cooking routines. Dis- tances between sink and stove, sink and refrigerator, stove and refrigerator, sink and working place (countertop or ta- ble), stove and working place were analyzed to correlate food safety practices applied during cooking with kitchen arrange- ments. The results arising from analyzing the ergonomics of kitchens versus potential cross-contamination events are presented in Mihalache et al., [1]. These data contribute to a better understanding of real kitchen layouts and can be used as a starting point for future research regarding food safety-oriented arrangements instead of ergonomics-focused designs, for food safety risk assessments, as study cases for explaining specific measures that can be established to im- prove food handling and hygiene practices in homes and for sociological research pointing consumers’ behavior during cooking.