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?

I read the OP out to DH thinking he would laugh with me at the bonkersness of washing (some but not all) fruit with washing up liquid. Instead he looked at me with horror and said 'you mean you don't?? But I've eaten fruit you've given me!"

Guess we don't know each other as well as we thought we did

other things to wash in a dishwasher Including your toothbrush!!

One of them is pet dishes. It's never occurred to me not to.

The fruit in the dishwasher is utterly bizarre.

I take them with me in the bubble bath and play with them. Then I line them all up on the side of the bath, rub them dry with a soft towel, and polish them with a soft lint free cloth. Then I draw faces on them and put them on the kitchen window ledge to relax in the sun

My toilet brush gets really clean in the dishwasher.

I've always washed my fruit and veg - I used to use washing up liquid until my mum told me to use vinegar. So I have a separate vinegar spray bottle - could not imagine eating fruit and veg without it.

Imagine all the people it's been handled by! And have you never seen fruit fall off the crate, only to be picked up and put back? Would you eat anything else that's rolled along the floor without washing it?

Fourtothedozen > internet

Cracking post. Just cracking.

Would you eat anything else that's rolled along the floor without washing it?

Yes. We have a 5 second rule in our house.

fourtothedozen that's disgusting

It's 3 seconds in our house

Used to be 3 but we are not getting any younger!!

I put mine in the washing machine.

YABU to wash the pesticides that have been sprayed on your fruit with more chemicals in your washing up liquid. Rinsing your fruit with water just won't do it either. You can reduce the pesticides and bacteria with water and vinegar. Three parts of water to one part of vinegar, spray then rinse with water. If I have more than a few pieces of fruit to wash I half fill the sink with water, add enough vinegar, soak the fruit, then rinse. Beats eating chemicals with my fruit. Yuk.

Washing up liquid? Really?? Beyond weird.....

Yes. We have a 5 second rule in our house.

We also employ the five second rule.

My toilet brush gets really clean in the dishwasher.

please, please pleez tell me that's a joke. Otherwise I'm going to have to boak all over Mumsnet.

Re things that can be cleaned in a dishwasher - my friend used to put her vibrator in hers, not on it's own but with crockery and stuff. Apparently it's very hygienic, although after she told me I never had a cup of tea there again : )

I sterilise my grapes in a cold water steriliser.

I just rub say an apple on my clothes before eating it and I'm still here!

I sterilise my grapes in a cold water steriliser.

If I have more than a few pieces of fruit to wash I half fill the sink with water, add enough vinegar, soak the fruit, then rinse

After the bubble bath post I'm not sure who is real or who is a wind up (non washer/picks things off the floor person here.)

I wash fruit with washing up liquid, especially if it has been sold loose. The idea of lots of people's grubby hands scrabbling about in the tray of apples turns my stomach.

Earth Friendly Fruit and Vegetable Wash. Plus it seems there is a whole host of options if you google images of Fruit Wash Spray.

When my veg box arrives each week, I lay it all out on the patio and give it a once over with the jet wash.

If I was germ phobic enough to want to wash food with DISH WASHING liquid, I think I would actually just peel it instead?!

I dry cups using a corner of my dressing gown if I can't lay my hands on a tea towel.

Do you think I wash fruit?

purpleswirl, I was horrified to see a friend unload her dishwasher with the toilet brush and container in amongst the china and cutlery! I know it sterilises everything but it's the idea that makes me cringe!

I wash all fruit and veg, except if I am peeling them.

When my kids were little, after I had done the food shop, I used to run a sink of cold water and put all the fruit in and add a squirt of milton, swish it around a bit and then rinse in clean cold water again. Then the fruit would go into the fruit bowl. Did not do this with soft fruit.

Only use cold water now. Would never use washing up liquid.