I only wash fruit or veg that won't be peeled. Like @Dovefromabove, I don't wash raspberries, and blackberries get eaten when picked. They never really make it back to the house though. A lot of my tomatoes don't either. I don't buy pre packed lettuce very often, but those bags with the ready prepped stuff are hideous. I once asked a friend why she didn't just grow a couple of pots of lettuce for her sandwiches, and she turned up her nose and mentioned 'all those bugs and beasties'. She'd happily buy the bags of prepped salad leaves though I don't think people realise that organic fruit and veg can have chemicals on them too.
I'm not too OCD about washing clothing/bedclothes, but my daughter does.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
ALERT for the sensitive. My dear late Mother rarely washed her frying pans. The lard was allowed to harden and the pans went back onto the shelf in the pantry. She said it added to the flavour. She lives to 72
Throughout my childhood and until I left home my Mum did exactly the same. The fry pan for bacon and eggs was never washed and the rendered fat just built-up until there was enough to pour off into the jar in the larder that the dripping was kept in for roast potatoes and to be spread on toast, one of Mum's favourites Mum lived to 89
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
ALERT for the sensitive. My dear late Mother rarely washed her frying pans. The lard was allowed to harden and the pans went back onto the shelf in the pantry. She said it added to the flavour. She lives to 72
Throughout my childhood and until I left home my Mum did exactly the same. The fry pan for bacon and eggs was never washed and the rendered fat just built-up until there was enough to pour off into the jar in the larder that the dripping was kept in for roast potatoes and to be spread on toast, one of Mum's favourites Mum lived to 89
ALERT for the sensitive. My dear late Mother rarely washed her frying pans. The lard was allowed to harden and the pans went back onto the shelf in the pantry. She said it added to the flavour. She lives to 72
Actually I don't think I'd have a problem with that (as long as it hadn't had fish cooked in it and picked up the smell). The lard would get hot enough to kill pretty much anything that might be harmful.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
We've eaten bagged salad leaves for years and have never come to harm, even after the use by date as long it still looks okay. If it gets soggy, it gets ditched. I do try to grow our own during the summer in a large pot outside the back door but there's never enough to keep us going. We eat it every day.
I don’t think the old cast iron frying pans should ever be washed, I wipe mine out with kitchen roll. I only wash new bedding if it smells, I’ve had sheets smelling of curry and sometimes a petrol type of smell.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
@Hostafan1. I've seen instructions on duvet covers and the like - wash before use. Who does that? Who apart from me reads instructions about what to do with a duvet cover.😐
perhaps some part of the process may leave some residue to which some folk are allergic?
Very true. I never used to bother washing new socks or tights for my then young daughter, until one day she was caught in a downpour whilst on a school trip, aged 7, wearing new tights. She complained to the teacher that her legs were burning and when I got her home and peeled the wet tights off, her legs looked like they’d been burnt - bright, uniformly red exactly where the tights has been wetted. Turns out many manufacturers (these were bog standard M&S) use chemicals during the manufacturing process, that can leach out if not washed out before use.
The last new sheet I bought was packaged plastic-free (good!), just folded around a piece of corrugated cardboard with a printed thin cardboard band around it, so the sheet itself could have been touched who-knows-how-many times before I bought it. It went in the wash with whatever else was in the basket, dried on the line, nice and fresh before being used.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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I don't buy pre packed lettuce very often, but those bags with the ready prepped stuff are hideous. I once asked a friend why she didn't just grow a couple of pots of lettuce for her sandwiches, and she turned up her nose and mentioned 'all those bugs and beasties'. She'd happily buy the bags of prepped salad leaves though
I don't think people realise that organic fruit and veg can have chemicals on them too.
I'm not too OCD about washing clothing/bedclothes, but my daughter does.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The fry pan for bacon and eggs was never washed and the rendered fat just built-up until there was enough to pour off into the jar in the larder that the dripping was kept in for roast potatoes and to be spread on toast, one of Mum's favourites
Mum lived to 89
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Actually I don't think I'd have a problem with that (as long as it hadn't had fish cooked in it and picked up the smell). The lard would get hot enough to kill pretty much anything that might be harmful.
I only wash new bedding if it smells, I’ve had sheets smelling of curry and sometimes a petrol type of smell.
I never used to bother washing new socks or tights for my then young daughter, until one day she was caught in a downpour whilst on a school trip, aged 7, wearing new tights. She complained to the teacher that her legs were burning and when I got her home and peeled the wet tights off, her legs looked like they’d been burnt - bright, uniformly red exactly where the tights has been wetted.
Turns out many manufacturers (these were bog standard M&S) use chemicals during the manufacturing process, that can leach out if not washed out before use.