attention science bods - heating up veggies for babies without poisoning them...

[TheBlairAitchProject]

the babies, that is.

my friend steams her BLW bits of veg, then freezes them and when she wants to give them to her son she simply pours boiling water over the veg and waits a couple of minutes and then hey bingo it's ready.

her baby is in rude health, but i thought that you were always supposed to heat food up to boiling point and let it cool? or is that just for purees?

[Katymac]

No the heating it through is for meat stuff

Veggies should be fine (IMO)

[TheBlairAitchProject]

bump please. despite being pleasantly cheered by katymac's encouraging answer i'm looking for a scientist here...

[Katymac]

Hope someone else can reassure you

[TheBlairAitchProject]

i think the same as you, by the way katymac, but i just want to check with one of the geeks...

[hooleymama]

I'm with Katymac on this.

I'd be more careful with meat & if your friend prepares meat when she's preparing the veg. obviously she'd be careful not to cross contaminate.
You can make it more complicated if you like by going into great detail about the micro. risk of different types of veg, and there are regulations governing the temp. to heat food to, how long to heat it, how quickly you should have food frozen or cooled after its been heated...but that's for the food industry !
You said your friends baby is healthy, that should tell you something.

FWIW yes I'm a scientist, yes I work in the food industry, yes I have a background in food hygiene & food safety.

please don't sue me if it all goes pear shaped

bedtime reading

[TheBlairAitchProject]

good-oh, thanks hooleymama.
in fact my friend has written a thing for my blog (she's talking mostly about BLW with an allergicky baby) and she mentions that this is how she preps food quickly. obviously i didn't want to post it upuntil i'd at least checked that it wasn't likely to result in litigation and horror...
cheers, and thanks again to katymac.