Will oven cooking at 180c kill coronavirus?

[Melissa85]

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

[Jrobhatch29]

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

[Sunnydazey]

Pissing myself laughing at this 🤣

[caulioccolii]

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.

[Wolfiefan]

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

[Melissa85]

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

[Badabingbadabum]

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

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

[Flagsfiend]

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

[badg3r]

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!

[youkiddingme]

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.

[youkiddingme]

sorry forgot the first link www.food.gov.uk/research/research-projects/qualitative-risk-assessment-on-the-risk-of-food-or-food-contact-materials-as-a-transmission-route-for-sars-cov-2

[Littleposh]

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

[Nixen]

Ffs

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