Method and apparatus to cool food contact machines and Surface

A cooling apparatus to inhibit bacterial and microbial growth on a food contact surface of a portable food handling device, such as a self standing food preparation work surface sortable housing, said cooling apparatus comprising:

• said self standing food preparation work surface portable housing having a seamless, flat, continuous, horizontal work surface thereon, to aid in manual slicing, folding, wrapping, etc. of food,
• said seamless, flat, continuous, horizontal work surface being unencumbered by any upwardly extending walls extending above said upper work surface,
• at least one thermoelectric module contacting an underside of said flat, continuous, horizontal work surface,
• said at least one thermoelectric module impinging upon at least one conductive surface of said seamless, flat, continuous, horizontal work surface,
• said at least one thermoelectric module reducing the temperature of the food contacting surface of said seamless, flat, continuous, horizontal work surface of said food preparation work surface to a predetermined temperature for inhibiting the bacterial and microbial growth thereon;
• said seamless, flat, continuous, horizontal work surface positioned upon a upperside of said portable housing, said portable housing, enclosing said at least one thermoelectric module therein, said at least one thermoelectric module isolated within said portable housing beneath said underside of said seamless, flat, continuous, horizontal work surface,
• said at least one thermoelectric module located within an interior of said portable housing.