How to wash fruits and vegetables

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How to wash fruits and vegetables
Topic Started: Jun 16 2015, 02:39 PM (523 Views)
Darcie	Jun 16 2015, 02:39 PM Post #1
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Quote: Lots of people touch, sniff and sneeze on produce — from the farm to the grocery store. So even if you're enjoying organic and local farmers market fruit and veggies, you're bound to encounter dirt and germs (and some pesticide residues) from all the caring hands it passes through. But don't buy fancy produce washes. Make your own! It's cheaper and avoids plastic containers. Tip: Wash produce before eating, NOT before storing (which will make it rot faster). Tip: Firm-skinned produce, such as melons and citrus fruits, needs warm water, a scrub and rinse. Soft-skinned produce, such as strawberries or grapes, needs a soak for a few minutes. http://www.davidsuzuki.org/blogs/queen-of-green/2015/06/how-to-wash-fruits-and-vegetables/ Good information

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wildie	Jun 18 2015, 07:16 AM Post #16
Veteran Member Posts: 12,173 Group: Member Member #442 Joined: October 11, 2006	Brings to mind the days, as a child; we would walk the railway right-a-way looking for strawberries growing along side the tracks! In those days, rail car toilets emptied directly onto the tracks. The effluent would wash down the banks with the rain. This fertilizer made for great luscious berries, that we consumed with gusto. Never did get sick from eating these, unwashed!



agate	Jun 18 2015, 01:46 PM Post #17
Posts: 21,864 Group: Administration Member #203 Joined: February 2, 2006	wildie Jun 18 2015, 07:16 AM Brings to mind the days, as a child; we would walk the railway right-a-way looking for strawberries growing along side the tracks! In those days, rail car toilets emptied directly onto the tracks. The effluent would wash down the banks with the rain. This fertilizer made for great luscious berries, that we consumed with gusto. Never did get sick from eating these, unwashed! bounce and jump045 brings to mind being out with a friend geo-caching and we came across a lovely patch of wild strawberries. She would not pick and eat any as she said.."someone may have peed on them!!!"



Trotsky	Jun 19 2015, 12:20 AM Post #18
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	campy Jun 18 2015, 06:42 AM Washing your hands after washing or cutting up of anything is what I do. I never have had a bout of food poisoning. My worst cases have always come from eating out, usually associated with a salad bar. I have never suffered from a meal I made. Lately preparing chicken puts me in Suzy Homemaker mode, scrubbing everything and then boiling the rags I cleaned up with. For fresh food I will no longer use wooden cutting boards, only polyethylene, and if chicken followed by a boiling water rinse. Cooked food I will cut on wood. Actually, cooked food and raw food never, ever see the same cutting board, or knife. Edited by Trotsky, Jun 19 2015, 12:21 AM.



campy	Jun 19 2015, 03:54 AM Post #19
Handyman Extraordinaire Posts: 28,720 Group: no politics Member #204 Joined: February 2, 2006	A mild solution of water and bleach works wonders on all cutting boards. I rarely eat out because I cook better food than any restaurant going. Edited by campy, Jun 19 2015, 03:56 AM.



Darcie	Jun 19 2015, 03:57 AM Post #20
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	I have a spray bottle of white vinegar sitting on my counter top and spray my cutting board with that. If I have cut meat or fish I soak them in the sink with a solution of vinegar and then wash with hot water and soap. Also known to put them in the dishwasher. My cutting boards are all glass. Edited by Darcie, Jun 19 2015, 03:57 AM.



Darcie	Jun 19 2015, 04:00 AM Post #21
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	agate Jun 18 2015, 01:46 PM wildie Jun 18 2015, 07:16 AM Brings to mind the days, as a child; we would walk the railway right-a-way looking for strawberries growing along side the tracks! In those days, rail car toilets emptied directly onto the tracks. The effluent would wash down the banks with the rain. This fertilizer made for great luscious berries, that we consumed with gusto. Never did get sick from eating these, unwashed! bounce and jump045 brings to mind being out with a friend geo-caching and we came across a lovely patch of wild strawberries. She would not pick and eat any as she said.."someone may have peed on them!!!" Agate, this reminded me of staying at a cabin in the woods surrounded by fresh strawberries. Used to go out and get some every day until I looked out the window one morning and saw a bear defecating on them and then eating them etc. No more berries for me.



swing	Jun 19 2015, 04:39 AM Post #22
swing Posts: 9,979 Group: Member Member #359 Joined: August 18, 2006	All my cutting boards go in the dishwasher., if I have to reuse one, I do like Darcie.. Hubby says I'm OCD, I take that as a compliment!



Trotsky	Jun 19 2015, 05:00 AM Post #23
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	I too felt a LOT safer with a dishwasher and miss it dearly after 22 years of use. There's no substitute for a dish washer's 140-150 degree wash and wash and wash. Cutting boards got washed almost every day...not the wooden ones. I COULD install one here but it would cut big-time into my kitchen storage, require re-plumbing or even moving the sink (and then a new counter,) and perhaps putting a 220 line into the kitchen. Some have done it but it does not look easy. It's the thing I miss most about the old joint. Boy, 100 square feet may not seem like much but when you downsize from 725 sq. feet to 625, it seems IMMENSE. Edited by Trotsky, Jun 19 2015, 05:04 AM.



Darcie	Jun 19 2015, 05:12 AM Post #24
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Trotsky, I know what you mean about downsizing, have done that and the reverse many times. I seem to forever be furnishing or getting rid of my whole life. I so agree with you about the dishwasher, I tried to live without for a couple of years, it was hell.



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