Anything you need to clean, soap and water is sufficient. Then dry it off with a microfiber cloth. You don’t need to disinfect knobs, or anything but an actual food prep surface. People go overboard there as well.

Living brass changes color with normal wear and tear. Lacquered will not. But if you get nuts about cleaning it it, the lacquer can flake off.

Thanks Sophie - it just seems like it would be difficult to clean kitchen hardware with soap and water instead of just using Lysol or something like that! and probably not good for the cabinets to always be putting wet soapy water on them!

A damp soapy cloth, not sloppy soaking wet, to wipe is all that is ever needed for any soiled cabinet, knob, or pretty much anything else. Disinfecting is an artificial unneeded construct for normal non soiled surfaces. And then dry it.

Cleaning is when you glop spaghetti sauce. Dusting is for everyday. No water needed there.

Disinfecting is for never. You honestly do not need to do it for any surface. Soap and water is sufficient. For the raw chicken polypropylene cutting board, that’s why they make a DW. That’s it. None of this spraying anything around Willy billy.

Patricia, they specifically said to not use vinegar on this hardware! Said it will ruin the lacquer and the wax

I’m surprised that people don’t sanitize their handles and drawer pulls...I’ve always thought of them as being similar to doorknobs and faucet handles - places that people touch frequently and spread germs. Especially living in a house with little kids who spread germs everywhere. A lot of articles I’ve seen say you should sanitize your kitchen pulls and knobs!! https://www.google.com/amp/www.mashed.com/78585/things-kitchen-never-clean/%3famp=1

That article was an eye-opener! Clearly, housekeeping standards today have fallen greatly if people don't know to clean their hood, the refrigerator coils, the inside of the refrigerator and the drawers, among other things!

Hand washing is the best way to prevent the spread of germs! There was an article in the morning NYTImes about an outbreak of the norovirus at the Olympics and how dispensers of hand sanitizer were being distributed right and left. Only problem is that hand sanitizers do NOT kill norovirus, but as the article says, Ivory soap will.

I do wipe my handles and knobs to remove stickiness and dirt, but not to "sanitize" them. I just wash my hands a LOT - and with soap. Remember, we live in the same house with all the people using our handles and knobs and we get their germs transferred to us all the time. Unless we all live like that poor "Boy in the bubble", transfer of germs between family members is pretty much inevitable.

Soap is more than sufficient for any cleaning needs.