AIBU for washing fruit with washing up liquid?

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So to wash fruit I put washing up liquid on it, swish it around a bit in water, and then carefully rinse it all off.

This seemed perfectly normal until today when a bunch of people stared at me in horror saying WTAF are you DOING!?!?

Apparently it's irredeemably weird and my fruit must taste of washing up liquid (it doesn't, that would be rank, I rinse it completely).

I also only do it to fruit with a skin, not stuff like strawberries and raspberries. They just get water.

So? Am I a total fruit-washing freak?

MissShunImpossible
I read your link on dishwashering fruit (which is actually about dishwashering vegetables, but that's just as weird). I loved the line 'Use only the cold, rinse cycle with no detergent'. And there was I, tablets to hand, with my finger on the hottest possible wash setting, hoping to pulverise wash my veg to smithereens...

I do this to apples and lemons to get the wax off.

That is insanely weird! I too would have looked at you with a WTAF are you DOING?! face.

I never wash anything I am going to eat except maybe very composty mushrooms.

Yes, usually wash fruit with a bit of washing up liquid and rinse well. I have no idea who has handled them in the store.

I only do this with grapes, for some reason. Everything else gets a quick rinse, sometimes not even that if it looks ok.

Well it was a good job you read that very useful article Princess. Have you considered mashing potatoes with a steam roller as well?

This reminds me of the discussion about do you/don't you eat the bread basket - well the bread in the breadbasket, obviously. I had never considered doing otherwise (free carbs! What's not to like?), but that also was disgusting and other people would have put their fingers on it, sneezed on it etc. I still eat it though

And those people who will never buy and eat homemade produce at fetes, because who knows what people had in their kitchen (unwashed fruit, probably!). Again, a risk I can live with.

FWIW I do wash fruit and veg I'm going to eat raw. With water. If it's about to swim in boiling water, I get the mud off and that's it.

I find thew idea of washing fruit in washing up liquid very weird. Washing up liquid is full of chemicals

I don't normally wash fruit or veg unless they look grubby. I have never been ill because of it, I think I would feel sick if I ate something washed in washing up liquid though

Reminds me that I happily used to eat the free peanuts/crisps etc. put out on the bar of my local pub, until a friend pointed out that lots of people rummaging around in the same crisp/peanut baskets might have gone to the loo and not washed their hands.

YABVU and rather odd.

Having seen what some people consider hand washing in public loos I too wouldn't like to eat unwashed fruit but I wouldn't use washing up liquid!

I've Been Frowned upon for insisting that a small girl in my care washed her hands after using the loo and told I had more money than sense for buying a lge cheap bottle of water to wash some strawberries we were going to eat on a picnic. I told the person concerned that food poisoning doesn't look good on the C.V.

I think it is a bit weird too....
But if it is ecover washing up liquid I doubt any residue will do you any harm...
Not sure if it was Ecover or Bio D but DP had a nice big swig of it neat once (long story - mixed up cups) and he is still alive...
I did think Natural selction might apply but relented and looked for the warning label on the bottle but it didn't appear to have any ...unlike Fairy etc.

(Apparently it didn't taste very nice though - and went foamy when he tried to rinse the taste out with water ...snigger )

I wash melons, avacados and mangoes before cutting them.

It gets even more bizarre, you don't even eat the outside of these things

I knew someone who washed their veg and stuff in Milton

I wonder how many of those on here who are paranoid about their fruit Bourne diseases and chemicals, happily inject vaccines into their kids, because the big man in the white coat tells them its good for them. Something is not right there.

I only do this with meat, you know, to get the blood out of it.

... But it really makes my dishwasher stink.

I never bother washing it either and I'm still here

Mind you, putting the veg in dish washer on hot, you could kill two birds with one stone, save putting the hob on.

I saw on a programme that you are meant to use some washing up liquid to break down the insecticides and grease on the fruit.

I wash it with fairy liquid too most of the time.

I do it too OP, never thought it was weird until I read the responses on here.

Some of the responses on here are vicious and over the top, is there any need for it, calling someone a weirdo, unbelievable!

What the actual fuck? This is madness.

This is a windup, surely?

I'm with you OP. Can't believe all the s you're getting OP. I also wash fruit. Market/supermarket, thousands of handlers, E. coli, salmonella, traces of God knows what
Even if you pick your own veg: animal pee, slug slime, random bits of bird poo etc etc. Don't know much about washing off pesticides.

In general, I do think we've all gone OTT with cleaning. Still wash my fruit tho.