How to disinfect strawberries?

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I bought them on impulse forgetting what was happening.

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

Cat has been out, tried soaking him in Milton. Now on hold to 111

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DH has decided he doesn't want anything uncooked, unless it comes in a thick skin like citrus and bananas. He's turned blueberries and grapes into an absolutely delicious compote, adding fresh lemon juice once it's cooked.

On a serious note I just question the health benefits of eating Milton soaked vegetables and fruit if you think that is the only way to make them safe to eat.

I buy and eat fruit as part of a healthy balanced diet and therefore just wouldn't bother if that was the only alternative. Maybe swop to fruit that has to be peeled before eaten.

Eh I've not washed anything, I just wash my hands when I get home .

I am a TA. The advice about changing clothes when you get home from work is from Andrew James Knox , a GP and Director in public Health at Morecombe Bay.
His point about changing clothes when you get in is intended for those who work in Special Schools, he says not necessary in regular schools unless you really feel the need. He does explain how to do this if you want to. He reiterates hand washing and wiping down surfaces regularly, he also says there is a lower transmission rate from children to adults (I'd like to know his source for this though).

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Thinking it through it may be easiest to do what a previous poster suggested and make them into jam or compote. Boiling with sugar should remove any virus.

Best thread ever

@ShirleyPhallus @MikeUniformMike 😂😂😂

I've stopped shopping and stopped eating just for peace of mind.

DH just gives me a good going over with a blow torch when I get home. I'm not risking it!

You don't need to "think it through". People need to catch themselves on and stop obsessively trying to nuke every single bacteria or virus either.

The chances of strawberries being "contaminated" with coronavirus are vanishingly small. The chances of actually catching coronavirus from eating the strawberries are even smaller than that.

You cannot eliminate every single risk. Social distancing and washing your hands are sensible precautions.

Bleaching your fruit (or refusing to eat it and making it into jam), stripping off each item of clothing or not opening mail until it's "safe" is not taking sensible precautions. It's letting mental health problems and anxiety rule your life.

Boiling with sugar should remove any virus.
DH didn't spoil the compote by putting sugar in it. It's so nice I think he'll carry on doing this with berries and grapes.

No idea what he's thinking of doing with the lettuce that came in a veg box though. Is lettuce and pea soup a thing?

Boiling with sugar should remove any virus

But sugar comes in paper bags! Can't be bleached! So you'd have to pour out the sugar, strip naked, burn your clothes, have a shower in neat bleach, zoflora the entire kitchen, make the jam, then burn the kitchen down just to be on the safe side. You can't be too careful.

Fucking hell no wonder we can't fight anything these days if people have pre Coronavirus been bleaching their strawberries.

What the fuck 😂😂

On a positive note, my wee 90 yo granny has been stuck inside and feeling a bit down about it, but I told her about the Milton strawberries on our phone call this afternoon and it cheered her right up

Brilliant. I feel so much better having seen this thread. Think @ShirleyPhallus wins.

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 live in a flat so have no outside in which to leave any letters

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

And I live alone so there is nobody else to turn on the shower for me. Obviously I am doomed.

"I’d use a solution of 1 part bleach, 2 parts baking soda, 1 part vinegar and 1 part lighter fluid."

@ShirleyPhallus, I keep thinking of this and sniggering .

Yeah, good one OP. You nearly had me there...

Is lettuce and pea soup a thing?
It is, I once read a recipe by Nigella Lawson for lettuce and pea soup, it sounded delicious! Didn't try it though.

To everyone seriously using vinegar for disinfecting stuff, it doesn't work.

@PineappleDanish my first response was that lightly bleaching your veg is normal because for years I did this.
Thinking through the current situation I decided that actually jam/compote was probably an easier solution.
There are many millions of people who because of poor sanitation in the food growing and handling process routinely disinfect their fruit and veg.
It isn't normal in the UK that doesn't mean it isn't normal elsewhere.

Does deep-frying kill viruses?

All you need is egg, milk and flour ...

but there weren't any flour or eggs left

👀vodka was my first thought

Have I just opened a thread serving as a portal to an alternative universe?

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This is hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂😂