Cleaning Fresh Produce

peggymenard
peggymenard Posts: 246 Member
edited February 26 in Food and Nutrition
What do you use or how do you clean your fresh produce?

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  • crescentgaia
    crescentgaia Posts: 71 Member
    Mostly water and a colander. If I'm cleaning potatoes, I use a scrub brush, but that's about it.
  • IsaackGMOON
    IsaackGMOON Posts: 3,354 Member
    Rinse them with water in a colander.
  • Rage_Phish
    Rage_Phish Posts: 1,507 Member
    i dont, it drives my fiance crazy
  • ASKyle
    ASKyle Posts: 1,475 Member
    i dont, it drives my fiance crazy

    Ditto
  • SherryTeach
    SherryTeach Posts: 2,836 Member
    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
    gizmo_2014 Posts: 37 Member
    I soak briefly in a water, vinegar and salt mixture then rinse.
  • kimothy38
    kimothy38 Posts: 840 Member
    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
    williams969 Posts: 2,528 Member
    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
    kaseyr1505 Posts: 624 Member
    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
    Meerataila Posts: 1,885 Member
    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.
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