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Never in my life have I heard of washing vegetabled in a washing machine.. lots of cold water surely is all they need, some veg like leeks have to be peeled back bacause of dirt though as very dirty vegetable..
Just got 12 avocados at Costco last night. 83 cents a piece mind you, nice big Californnia Haas.
There's no such thing as Haas avocados.
You must mean Hass, rhymes with "pass," named after Rudolph Hass, the La Habra, California postman who patented the new variety in 1935. It now represents something like 95% of the California crop, and 80% of the worldwide crop.
I had a salad from a bag once that made me sick. I got paranoid after that, I think.
I remember one night I had one too many glasses of wine and made some mushrooms. I had forgotten to wash/scrub them. I looked in the pot after they were cooked and was like:
I would not use dish-washing detergent, which is actually difficult to rinse off completely, and may not kill germs as well as a veggie wash. Over time you'll be eating a lot of detergent that way.
And whatever you do, you should not wash mushrooms, which are like sponges, soaking up whatever you rinse them with. You should simply brush them off dry with a very soft brush.
One homemade veggie wash that is inexpensive but quite effective is a cup of white vinegar and a cup of water in a spray bottle with about 20 drops of GrapefruitSeed Extract (GSE) added. That's a natural microbial agent from health food stores that washes off cleanly and without leaving any residual taste.
Some people add a tablespoon of baking soda, but I don't.
Rinse and scrub the surface dirt off the veggies then spray liberally and let sit 5 minutes, then rinse clean with fresh water.
Pat dry before putting in refrigerator to help deter mold growth.
Voila!
GSE is an excellent suggestion. It is the only quaternary disinfectant/cleaner that can be consumed. You need the correct dilution to do this, though.
When we pay field workers by the amount that they pick, do you really think that they will walk all the way to a port-a-potty when they have an open field and are unsupervised? Some people are immune to diseases that get others sick. How do you think the term 'Montezuma's Revenge' originated?
That's just a rhetorical comment, and not specifically for you, Open.
Last edited by goldengrain; 08-13-2012 at 03:32 PM..
Picture it - 1947. I was 12 y.o. and my step-sister was 11. Her Mom called from work and told us to get supper started. Wash the spinach and put it in boiling water. Bread the pork chops and put them in the icebox to "set".
I voted to wash the spinach, which I did, with a cake of Ivory soap. I lovingly lathered each leaf and rinsed under running water.
Step-sister put a slice of bread on each chop and put the dish in the icebox, as ordered.
Step-Mother came home, laughed at the "breaded" chops, put some egg wash and crumbs on them and fried them up. The spinach ended up in the boiling water, and the foam ended up on the stove, the counter, the floor.
We opened a can of corn.
I have never done more than rinse the veggies under water. If I was going to get sick, I think I would have done so by now. And I do peel off the outer leaves of lettuce and cabbage, not because somebody might have peed on them but because they are usually bruised or limp.
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