What do shopping cleaners do with the insides of packets?

[Floatyboat]

Just wondering how people that like to clean their shopping deal with things inside the packaging.

Obviously you'd presume tins and cereal etc would not have been contaminated in the last 72 hours but what about other stuff, short shelf life items. Some fruit and veg can be from farm to fork in 48 hours. Bread as well won't have been in the bag for long.

Do you just leave it before opening, cook it all before eating or wash it? But you can't really wash bread.

This has also got me thinking about other things that may have recently touched in non obvious ways.

I always leave my bags of shopping in the porch and get husband to fart on them. I’m confident that would kill anything, although it does tend to shrivel the lettuce.

Thinking about washing the inside of your bread packet is a tad extreme and has not been suggested as something we should be doing.
Then again, I barely have time to think about buying bread never mind how to disinfect it.

Some people like washing their shopping

I don't think anyone likes it. Some might think it's necessary.

However if you actually do like doing it,then you have a problem

I don't clean or wipe my groceries. It is extremely unlikely you would pick anything up - but if cautious just take stuff out of packets and then wash your hands. I do not see how you can decontaminate bread.

Vegetables are going into a pan of boiling water to be cooked anyway so dont need washing. The odd lump of soil, boiled caterpillar, greenfly or slug just adds some extra flavour and protein.

Thanks to whoever suggested looking at the OP’s posting history. It’s hilarious. A book should not have been purchased because it is NON ESSENTIAL but should now be cooked. As should everything else. I suppose all the food poisoning will be an entertaining distraction from hanging the washing on the line.

@Floatyboat sterilising pears? Say what now?! Wouldn't whoever bought that pear be washing it when they got home, as they normally would with fresh fruit, anyway? Even I did that in The Beforetimes if I could be arsed. I'm surprised at you putting items back on supermarket shelves after you've handled them though. Gosh you might have killed at LEAST 13956548 people.

@ChipotleBlessing gives a whole new meaning to cooking the books doesn't it

@SelfIsolatingBeforeItWasCool

Yes, I don't think the warm soapy water will be doing the taste or shelf life of that cauliflower any favours.

More seriously, as cauliflower is more than likely going to be cooked anyway it seems rather unnecessary!

@Floatyboat nope. Definitely you making the fat comments. You called Priti Patel fat on one thread and then made the claim about obese people / CoronaVirus on another thread.

Taking things out of context a little bit me thinks. Not sure the relevance any way