Still wiping down groceries?

[Cam77]

Just wondered if anyone is still doing this? At the beginning we were told the virus can live on surfaces for X number of days, but as far as I’m aware, the powers that be never elaborated on whether it was a real risk of transmission.

I have elderly parents and am being extra cautious for their sakes. I was about to stop wiping a few weeks ago but then number started going again when I live. I know the risk is super small, but anyway, anyone else still consider this worth doing? Or was the science updated somewhere to say there’s no risk of transmission from groceries/parcels etc?

[YetAnotherSpartacus]

I either wipe over the butter ( in packet ! ) with a soapy cloth if it is a foiled wrapper, or if it is paper I take it off, and rewrap the butter in clean greaseproof paper

It's a sad world when you have to explain that you leave the wrapper on, isn't it?

[user1471500037]

If you are washing groceries, butter!!!, in detergent- please look in the mirror and think about what you are doing with your life...

[YetAnotherSpartacus]

Even more sad when you have to say it twice ...

[goatley]

Who is ingesting bleach?

I do wash fruit and veg before eating/cooking - but certainly not in bleach water.

The groceries which I clean before putting away are those in packets which can stand a damp cloth which has been dipped in washing up liquid water(sometimes with a drop of Zoflora too). Nothing is saturated - paper items get a very cursory wipe. I give the shopping bags a wipe over too and put them straight back into my car boot for next time.

[ElizabethWoodviIIe]

@SirVixofVixHall

I either wipe over the butter ( in packet ! ) with a soapy cloth if it is a foiled wrapper, or if it is paper I take it off, and rewrap the butter in clean greaseproof paper. Then I wash and rinse the butter wrapper, hang it up to dry, and re wrap the butter in that wrapper when fully dried, just so I have the use by date and butter type, as I freeze it and buy salted and unsalted.

I'd take a flamethrower to it too, just to be on the safe side.

[lockdownmumma123]

@Cam77
I wiped down everything that came into my house at the start of lockdown for around 3 months, Mainly due to the fact my daughter was born a couple days before we officially went into lockdown so I was completely freaked! I still am but don't wipe down shopping, I just put my shopping away, wipe the surface I was unpacking it and wash my hands after

[SirVixofVixHall]

yetanotherspartacus that has really made me laugh. So true ...

[SirVixofVixHall]

I could flamethrow the butter, and then re-set it in an attractive pre-war mold I have to hand... ?
Tempted.

[GinWithASplashOfTonic]

Never did tbh. The only place I live heard of it being a thing was on mn
Also never put post or parcels in quarantine either

[YetAnotherSpartacus]

I'd take a flamethrower to it too, just to be on the safe side

Only if I'd also bought the ingredients for Gnocchi and had some sage to hand - and maybe a touch of good truffle oil?

[SirVixofVixHall]

Mould not mold, typo.
Bread in perforated bags goes into a hot oven for one minute, then out , sliced and into a freezer bag.
Am thinking investing in a flame-thrower would be simpler..