I always wash towels, bed linens etc before use. Don’t wash new clothing, but usually check it looks and smells clean. I wash fruit and vegetables apart from things I’m going to peel, like potatoes and carrots. Salad stuff all gets rinsed. I do remember helping a friend prepare lunch, and being accused of being ‘posh’ because I washed the tomatoes before slicing them! I suppose my main concerns are ‘germs’ and insecticides.
I don't take much notice of use-by and best-before dates. If it looks or smells off/mouldy/slimy/musty etc of course I don't eat it (or I cut off the bad bits) but that's nowt to do with the date on it. Fresh fruit and veg often last beyond the use-by date, unopened dry goods don't go off overnight because the best-before date has passed, and unopened tins and jars keep pretty much indefinitely as far as I can see (currently using some homemade marmalade labelled Jan2018 that I'd stashed away and forgotten about, and it's fine).
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I wash fruit veg and salad stuff under running cold water. It's not so much to do with pesticides etc but more about those who have handled stuff before I have. The loose fruit etc will have been picked over by other potential buyers, and who knows what they carry on their hands? And packers of fruit and veg don't necessarily wash their hands before handling stuff, either. (I read an article some time ago about handlers' hands, and it made me realise how unsanitary some people can be!)
Pub peanuts, yuk! My OH says he frequently sees men leaving the gents without bothering to wash their hands (and this is in his office building, where you'd think people would be reasonably smart and not under the influence of booze). They might then go in the shops and touch things . I'd hoped COVID would have at least made good hand hygiene the norm but it seems not.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
"Wash before use" means the supermarket aren't liable if you get a stomach bug from bacteria on the surface of fruit and veg, seems to happen fairly regularly with cucumbers. Although it's still quite rare. And I rarely bother complying to be honest.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
clothes bedding definitely, it has a weird chemical smell. Listening to radio 4 today, think it was "costing the earth". About VOCs in your carpets, bedding. New carpets give off formaldehyde It's why we have plants everywhere indoors Veg, not if it's going to be peeled
the bedlinen demons didn't get me last night. I've survived a night on a brand new, UNWASHED fitted sheet. My skin hasn't dissolved. Who'd have thought. As you know, I'm a " fly by the seat of my pants" kinda guy.
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So rinsing under the tap is enough for the delicate of digestion?
I wash fruit and vegetables apart from things I’m going to peel, like potatoes and carrots. Salad stuff all gets rinsed.
I do remember helping a friend prepare lunch, and being accused of being ‘posh’ because I washed the tomatoes before slicing them!
I suppose my main concerns are ‘germs’ and insecticides.
It's why we have plants everywhere indoors
Veg, not if it's going to be peeled
I've survived a night on a brand new, UNWASHED fitted sheet.
My skin hasn't dissolved. Who'd have thought.
As you know, I'm a " fly by the seat of my pants" kinda guy.