How to disinfect strawberries?

[TheEmojiFormerlyKnownAsPrince]

I bought them on impulse forgetting what was happening.

Sterilised everything I’d bought, but stuck on the strawberries. Can anyone help?

No I’m not joking. I wash everything that comes through the door!

Letters I pick up with gloves and put outside as the virus degrades in sunlight. I do the same with anything else not easily washable. Leave them out for about 24 hours and turn them once.

I wash all food.

If I’ve been to work, I strip off at the door, clothes in a plastic bag, and straight into a shower turned on by someone else.

Most people l know are like this. And I’ve never ever been a clean freak!

Corona is not a food-borne disease; you can't catch it from "eating" droplets containing the virus.

You don't need to sterilise food. Not sure how you even do that.

But if someone with it has handled fruit then you could catch it.

Like the idea of finding them in gin!

Rinsing!

Letters I pick up with gloves and put outside as the virus degrades in sunlight.

Seems a lot of effort OP. Couldn't you just open the post and then wash your hands?

Well just put them outside in the sunshine then. Bonkers.

Most people l know are like this.

No; they’re really not. Don’t disinfect your strawberries. Or any other food for that matter. Just east them.

Are they fresh strawberries? If so soak in salt water for a few hours to get rid of worms and spiders

Milton They'd taste awful! I'm just rinsing them as normal, maybe slightly more thoroughly.

And I don't know anyone disinfecting their fresh fruit and veg!! Maybe I'm in the wrong circles

Most people l know are like this.

Thankfully no-one I know is like this. Just wash them and eat them.

If I’ve been to work, I strip off at the door, clothes in a plastic bag, and straight into a shower turned on by someone else.

Where do you work??

If I’ve been to work, I strip off at the door, clothes in a plastic bag, and straight into a shower turned on by someone else.

I don’t think you’re doing enough. I have a bath tub filled with bleach solution outside the front door I soak in for 2+ hours every time I come in the house. I then burn my clothes just to be sure.

Just eat the strawberries. Yes, there's a miniscule chance you'll get the virus from these strawberries. There's a much higher chance you'll have got it from the supermarket, or a run, or work. This is all about risk reduction. The risk reduction from sterilising strawberries is ridiculously small, unless you're living in a bubble and only eating strawberries.

You know most of us are going to get the virus at some point right? It’s just a question of when.

I rinse under water before use. I'm not bleaching my fruit and veg or anything else

I'm not wiping door handles or anything. Should I be?

Wow - I must have missed Boris's grocery decontamination instructions. And there was I, merrily staying at home and only venturing out once a day for exercise whilst practising social distancing. Mind you, seems Boris and Nick weren't as careful as they should have been.

Actually Shirley, the advice about that came from an anaesthetic consultant and was aimed at teachers who are currently in school at the moment.

And all my colleagues who are in schools go straight home to do this, Every one of them

I bet they don't.

I let the dogs lick them first and if nothing happens to them then it's safe to eat.

I’m doing more hand washing and using gel sanitizer but not heard of anyone treating their post or clothes any different.

This has picked me right up out of my bad mood. Thanks op.

Wow - I must have missed Boris's grocery decontamination instructions. And there was I, merrily staying at home and only venturing out once a day for exercise whilst practising social distancing. Mind you, seems Boris and Nick weren't as careful as they should have been.

Yes, they clearly didn't bleach their strawberries.