Cleaning Fresh Produce

peggymenard

What do you use or how do you clean your fresh produce?

crescentgaia

Mostly water and a colander. If I'm cleaning potatoes, I use a scrub brush, but that's about it.

IsaackGMOON

Rinse them with water in a colander.

Rage_Phish

i dont, it drives my fiance crazy

ASKyle

i dont, it drives my fiance crazy

Ditto

SherryTeach

Water is fine. A scrub brush for potatoes. I've made it this far in life doing this, so I think I'll be okay. I've seen those vegetable washes at the store and I think that's a marketing gimmick.

gizmo_2014

I soak briefly in a water, vinegar and salt mixture then rinse.

kimothy38

I soak briefly in a water, vinegar and salt mixture then rinse.

Pesticides etc are designed not to washed off by water (otherwise rain would wash it away) so this is probably the right way to do it but I'm too lazy and just use water then dry off with a tea towel.

williams969

I soak briefly in a water, vinegar and salt mixture then rinse.

I do the water and vinegar soak, but I hadn't heard of the saline rinse. Interesting. I hate washing produce, and am lazy, so I do it all in one big sink full on grocery day, then it's already clean when I pull some out to eat.

kaseyr1505

I have a spray bottle with a vinegar/water solution. I spray the veggies, then wipe them down. Potatoes are just scrubbed with a brush under warm water.

Most veggies, I clean on grocery day, then put them away for the week.

Meerataila

Water and my hands. I am a little worried about hepatitis, E. coli, and salmonella, but I figure, all those decades of eating ground beef didn't kill me, so I'll probably be okay.