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How do you wash vegetables/greens/fruit before you eat/cook them?
If you MUST, just wash in tap water, then you can soak in a few drops of "Purisimo".
Get it at supermarkets.
I think Ken uses it.
Or, a FEW DROPS of "Cloro" in water will do the same thing.
I wouldn't worry too much about preparing/eating at home, it's eating out that you need to worry about.
ICE can be bad.
Drink "Brugal" ..."neat"!
Cris Colon
Get it at supermarkets.
I think Ken uses it.
Or, a FEW DROPS of "Cloro" in water will do the same thing.
I wouldn't worry too much about preparing/eating at home, it's eating out that you need to worry about.
ICE can be bad.
Drink "Brugal" ..."neat"!
Cris Colon
Thank all.
I use a lot of vegetables, greens and fruits because I am into juicing and because I like to eat vegetables and salads.
I wash everything with tap water and try to dry it off.
I want to do as little as possible.
Some people told me they wash everything with a bit of bleach.
So far what I am doing seems to be working ...but I wonder if I am doing something wrong.
I use a lot of vegetables, greens and fruits because I am into juicing and because I like to eat vegetables and salads.
I wash everything with tap water and try to dry it off.
I want to do as little as possible.
Some people told me they wash everything with a bit of bleach.
So far what I am doing seems to be working ...but I wonder if I am doing something wrong.
As long as you wash your vegetables with a bit of bleach you're doing fine,Especially salad greens.
Yes, a few drops of Purisimo is good. It is like cloro, but much more concentrated so you only need a little. When I go to a budget hotel in SD or Santiago, I take it along and put a few drops in the tap water to drink.
tap water disadvantage
Using a bit of bleach is a much better practice than using plain tap water. I personally splurge on water from the botell?n because I prefer to be short on cash rather than complaining about gastritis. I've estimates as high as 80% or more of the population suffers from various degrees of gastritis. The cumulative effects of doing things like brushing your teeth with tap water, drinking and eating from glasses and plates that are still wet with dishwater, and indiscriminately patronizing random comedores and chimichurri stands (beware of their salad especially, even more than the meat that is "50 shades of gray") will put you on the wrong side of the intestinal parasite fence. I'm told it is a very uncomfortable place to be.
Using a bit of bleach is a much better practice than using plain tap water. I personally splurge on water from the botell?n because I prefer to be short on cash rather than complaining about gastritis. I've estimates as high as 80% or more of the population suffers from various degrees of gastritis. The cumulative effects of doing things like brushing your teeth with tap water, drinking and eating from glasses and plates that are still wet with dishwater, and indiscriminately patronizing random comedores and chimichurri stands (beware of their salad especially, even more than the meat that is "50 shades of gray") will put you on the wrong side of the intestinal parasite fence. I'm told it is a very uncomfortable place to be.
Raising my wife's hand...many dominicans add a spoonful of vinegar to the water used for washing and rinsing vegetables. i cannot be bothered. i have a life. still
but some dr1ers are just a step away from sleeping in an oxygen tent with their pet chimpanzee bubbles. i know this
All my wife's wash ends with bottled water.
She is a step or two away from buying oxygen capsules and chimpanzee...
In serious note.
My wife tried to make kimchi with both tap and with little bleach/iodine tablet we bought from REI. Kimchi turned out mushy, and when supposed to be crunchy fermented cabbage turns mushy, it's not a good sign. It's cost effective / less time consuming / help my sanity to just allow my wife to use bottle of water to wash veggies off...
My ,"Sex Practices" make eating contaminated food, a mute point!
Being anal,( NO PUN) about food/veg. decontamination is just a "Fool's Errand"!
You guy's make Howard Hughes look like a "Dumpster Diver"!
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Being anal,( NO PUN) about food/veg. decontamination is just a "Fool's Errand"!
You guy's make Howard Hughes look like a "Dumpster Diver"!
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For me, it depends if it will be cooked or not. Anything that we'll be eating raw is washed with bottled water. If I'm going to cook the vegetables I wash them and cook them with tap water [our well has been tested and it's very pure]. For fruit, I wash them with tap water before I peel them [I do that in the US too] - if it's not peeled, then bottled water.
I've never washed an egg. Guess I live life dangerouslyaranoid:
I've never washed an egg. Guess I live life dangerously
aranoid:I used bottled water to wash all vegetables. Have done this since we have lived here and never gotten ill from veggies or fruit at home!! The first year of living here never ate salad or anything that might be suspect when we ate out!! Call me overly cautious but hey that is what works for my world.
For me, it depends if it will be cooked or not. Anything that we'll be eating raw is washed with bottled water. If I'm going to cook the vegetables I wash them and cook them with tap water [our well has been tested and it's very pure]. For fruit, I wash them with tap water before I peel them [I do that in the US too] - if it's not peeled, then bottled water.
I've never washed an egg. Guess I live life dangerously
That is what I do.Salad greens I wash with bottled water and cloro.Anything else that has to be cooked
no need for that since the cooking process kills the bacteria.