How are you disinfecting groceries?

[Moominmummy12]

Can see that it’s possible to wipe down bottles/jars but how do you clean a punnet of fruit or a loaf of bread?

I wondered if people were still quarantining the post etc.

Not too much now but when R number were high was spraying all incoming stuff with surgical spray....just lurvvvv the smell.
Not anxious, just being careful in handling items as have been doing a weekly food shop throughout all lockdowns in the UK.
Have a big plastic garden box outside the back door to temporarily store items for 72 hours that can't immediately be sprayed/cleaned.

I do absolutely nothing, just wash my hands and even then I've relaxed doing that as much as I did bsck last year in March. Haven't caught a thing, no cold, no flu and no covid.

I do wish that this pandemic had wiped out hay-fever tho, but no such luck

@SomethingOnce

Blowtorch. Then sheep dip.

Oh there are some brilliant answers on here.

My favourite is ^^

I unload shopping .Wash hands ,disinfect surfaces and fridge .Thats it! Honestly dont get it .Surely you have to touch food in store ,have it in the car and so on.Unless you are shielding or have OCD/health issues .I think its completely OTT TBH!

I am not disinfecting anything and never have. I don’t believe there are any cases passed on like this. I wash my hands carefully.

I thought it had been determined that the risk of contamination by surface is extremely low?

I'm not.

If people have been disinfecting their shopping since this thread started last year that's a lot of time and disinfecting spent!

Surely you wash your hands before and after preparing food so there seems little point in wiping food and packages down after shopping.
I think the risk is while you’re in the supermarket and more likely to touch or handle food someone else has just picked up then touch your face having not washed your hands immediately.
I am more likely to disinfect my phone than my shopping when I return home. It spends more time in my potentially contaminated hands than anything else.

I think a spammer resurrected this thread - interesting to look back on this time last year. I never have and never will as an anti-Covid measure. I don't wipe the post or quarantine anything.

I just give it my best teacher Death Stare. If it can get two sixteen year olds to stop yakking, it can kill Covid.

@VeryQuaintIrene it has. All this disinfecting and quarantining shopping is pointless at best, harmful at worst, depending on what people are using to do clean it.

Everything that is able to be left without being refrigerated (veg, bread, tins, packets) gets put into a cupboard we specifically kept for Quarantining things and it sits there for three days and then gets put away. (Plastic and tin can hold the virus much longer). Frozen food like nuggets or chips gets decanted straight into zip lock freezer bags. Things we definitely need to refrigerate like bottles of milk or meat get wiped down with bleach. Then all the surfaces get bleached. I wouldn't dream of handling and eating things that haven't been disinfected especially with the more infectious variants. It's playing with fire. It's so dirty. You don't know who's handled it. I think I'll continue this even if Covid ended tomorrow.

I'm not, the risk from packages and groceries was somewhat overstated at the start (when they didn't know) and has now been proven to be very slight to none.

Read this link

Ha ha, ah, zombie thread....

PolytheneHam, you have just reminded me of the original wire brush and dettol joke, with the Queen and the soldiers!
Thanks for giving me a nice laugh.

Quarantining or wiping with soapy cloth should be standard at the moment, really.

I tend to swill each piece of fruit in soapy water, rubbing slightly with my hands.

I don't think that link indicates what you would wish to take from it.
It is very difficult to identify how exactly someone contracted the virus and food packaging is in that group of possible transmitters.

We know it remains on harder surfaces for longer, and so wiping down and washing hands seem sensible esp IF the consequences of contracting covid are v serious for you.

Wash Fruit in soapy water? That’s wholly unnecessary and a big bit crackers

@CherryBerry14 - you resurrected this zombie thread and your post got deleted. Curious what you were advertising, or what your motives are?

I did for the first few months of the pandemic last year. Then I actually read some research on it and realized the risk was extremely low and that there's little to be gained from it. Now I just wash my hands when I come in with the shopping, and again when I've put it away. No one in our household has had Covid yet (that we know of).

Having said that, no one in our household is high risk either. If someone was, I'd probably take more precautions and might consider it.

I wash everything that is in a sealed packet, jar or bottle. Bread goes into the oven for a few minutes. Anything in a cardboard box but with an inner packet is taken out, cardboard outer has a blast in the oven, then put back in. Anything for the freezer ( the bags are usually porous) gets decanted into a freezer bag.
Fruit and veg gets washed and rinsed well.
Butter in foil gets wiped and rinsed, dried, into freezer. Butter in paper gets unwrapped, paper rinsed in hot water, dried, butter re wrapped and into freezer.
Anything else , eg tins, gets put in a cardboard box for a week and then put away.
It used to be quite arduous but DH and I do it together and we are pretty swift now. I also could only get a delivery every two or three weeks at the beginning, whereas now I have one a week, so fewer items to deal with.

@fartyface

I lick them clean.

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Why does he stand as though he has a small sheep under each arm?