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Will oven cooking at 180c kill coronavirus?

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Melissa85 · 18/08/2020 19:43

Would cooking a pizza at 180c for 10 minutes kill off covid?

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Nixen · 18/08/2020 21:08

Ffs

We’ll never get back to normal life if people are seriously worrying about shit like this

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Littleposh · 18/08/2020 21:04

Yes and you can't catch covid from eating food so you're definitely safe

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youkiddingme · 18/08/2020 20:56

Not a stupid question at all.
Latest risk assessments on catching covid from food are given as 'negligible to very low, but cannot be excluded - with a wide degree of uncertainty'
And yes, cooking food thoroughly will 'kill' the virus. www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-for-consumers-on-coronavirus-covid-19-and-food/guidance-for-consumers-on-coronavirus-covid-19-and-food#:~:text=It%20is%20very%20unlikely%20that,the%20risk%20of%20illness.

If your concerns were irrational I doubt scientific bodies would be spending time and money checking these things out. Perfectly sensible thing to consider, pregnancy and health anxiety not withstanding. But I absolutely think the combination of very very low likelihood of transmission coupled with cooking means all is fine.

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badg3r · 18/08/2020 20:40

I think that, given you have now eaten it, having covid is the least of the pizza's worries 😂

Seriously though, cooking will kill any nasties but I get the worry. I am also pregnant, someone in the shop the other day had a cough and I got irrationally angry and scared!

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Flagsfiend · 18/08/2020 20:40

Cooking things thoroughly will denature viruses and kill bacteria making them safe to eat. So you will be absolutely fine :)

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Badabingbadabum · 18/08/2020 20:34

Why didn't you go with pepperoni rather than Covid?

Oh Op, we have all been irrational late in pregnancy! Smile

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Melissa85 · 18/08/2020 20:29

Thanks everyone for some of the comments... It's fine I get why people think it's funny as it is a strange thing to ask lol.... But I genuinely have got 80% worse since covid and pregnancy hormones on top! Worrying all the time. Thanks for the replies of putting my mind at ease x

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Wolfiefan · 18/08/2020 20:15

Oh OP I agree. An awful time to be pregnant with health anxiety. It’ll be fine. Really. Flowers

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caulioccolii · 18/08/2020 20:15

Im with you!
Who stacked the pizza on the shelf? Put it through the checkout- who made it in the first place,there is usually human interaction even on machine produced food. Gah- I hope the heat killed any potential germs including bogies, bum germs etc etc. Confused

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Sunnydazey · 18/08/2020 20:14

Pissing myself laughing at this 🤣

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Jrobhatch29 · 18/08/2020 20:13

You will be fine. I ate pizza straight out of a dominos box a few hours before I went into labour in may.

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MrsTerryPratchett · 18/08/2020 20:08

Pregnant with health anxiety during a pandemic? You poor love.

Thanks

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Wecandothis99 · 18/08/2020 20:08

I I also understand what youre saying. Simple enough question when you've got a new life to think about. I've researched this myself, you're fine

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IDontWantToGoToBed · 18/08/2020 20:03

#unwatch

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IDontWantToGoToBed · 18/08/2020 20:02

If you suffer with anxiety, which is completely understandable.
I suggest you u watch and unfollow this thread or even get it deleted. People will continue to take the piss and its not what you need right now Flowers

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TheVeryHungryTortoise · 18/08/2020 20:01

You can't catch COVID-19 by consuming foodstuffs. I understand what you're asking, in a very unlikely string of events someone with COVID-19 could have picked up the box before you and now you have placed your food on it but I think the only possible way would be if you then rubbed your face with the pizza or something equally strange.

As a side note, viruses aren't alive so there's nothing to kill, but you can deactivate them at specific high temperatures. That's why when you go somewhere with dirty water it's a good idea to boil your drinking water to inactivate potential pathogens. Everything inactivates at different conditions though. So yes, baking a pizza in a hot oven should get rid of this risk.

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RyanBergarasTeeth · 18/08/2020 20:01

Ah well dont let this worry you op you absolutely will not catch covid from a pizza box plus the oven kills germs. Try put it out of your head as long as you wash your hands after going out and follow the rules you will be ok :)

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Melissa85 · 18/08/2020 20:00

@ToLongNow thanks !

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Melissa85 · 18/08/2020 19:56

@RyanBergarasTeeth I know I suffer with health anxiety plus I'm 8 months pregnant so it doesnt help

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MrsTerryPratchett · 18/08/2020 19:51

@mynameisntlouise

Has anyone told the Doctors on ICUs about this breaks through?

They are super unlikely to bake patients.
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AuntieMarys · 18/08/2020 19:51

has the pizza got a cough 😁

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mynameisntlouise · 18/08/2020 19:50

Has anyone told the Doctors on ICUs about this breaks through?

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RyanBergarasTeeth · 18/08/2020 19:50

Op thats not a normal level of anxiety at all.

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Melissa85 · 18/08/2020 19:50

@HeresMe nope just a thought after eating it and it has been resting on outside packaging.

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