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      Only because you don’t like the color, or maybe the texture of dirt? We wash off dirt because it’s dirty, and dirty things aren’t good for us (because of bacteria…).

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            Sorry, but I wanted to make a stupid “switcharoo” kind of joke that would imply a significant lack of personal hygiene on my part.

            In German salad also means lettuce, so that’s why it wasn’t as clear as I wanted it to be.

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      They’ve studied that and it doesn’t get rid of pesticides.

      To get rid of pesticides you need to immerse it in a baking soda solution for about 20 minutes.

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          At a minimum rinse all fresh produce under tap water for at least thirty seconds.

          The mechanical action of rubbing the produce under tap water is likely responsible for removing pesticide residues.

          Personally I wouldn’t call mechanical action of rubbing to be rinsing. I would have liked to see the % removed, but skimming that article I didn’t see. Also in my experience people don’t rub for 30 literal seconds, the people I watch are lucky to break 5 seconds.

          But the main point I want to make is that baking soda is a base that breaks down the pesticide.

          Liang [4] studied the removal of five organophosphorus pesticides in raw cucumber with home preparation, and the research results show that washing by tap water for 20 min only caused a pesticides reduction of 26.7–62.9%. Sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate solution caused a pesticides reduction of 66.7–98.9%.

          The removal efficiency of other washing solutions outperformed the tap water; tap water washing only caused a 10–40% loss of the 10 pesticides, and the AlEW, micron calcium, and active oxygen solution caused a 40–90% loss of the 10 pesticides.

          AIEW being alkaline electrolyzed water, which I understand to be baking soda.

          https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6388112

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            AlEW was not the baking soda, it’s a separate thing if I understood it correctly.

            Additionally you’re complaining that nobody rinses their food for 30 seconds while expecting them to bathe it in high ph water for 45 minutes??

            Furthermore they were comparing it not with rinsing and running but rather just soaking it in water for 20 minutes.

            And despite all that card stacking water still was 69% removal at its high range, which overlaps significantly with the low range of the chemical baths.

            I’ll keep rinsing and running, thanks.

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              Oh you’re right looks like AIEW and sodium bicarbonate are different, but they are in the same tree.

              Pesticides in cucumber were more easily removed by alkaline solutions, such as AlEW, micron calcium, and sodium bicarbonate solution, compared

              Other info:

              Among these washing processing methods, 2% sodium bicarbonate solution and ozone water caused 20–40% more loss of the 10 pesticides than tap water.

              the order of the removal effects of 10 pesticides in spinach by washing with detergent solution was as follows: ozone water and active oxygen solution > micron calcium solution >AlEW (pH 12.35) and sodium bicarbonate solution > AlEW (pH 10.50) > tap water. These washing methods are two to four times as effective as tap water.

              You don’t have to “bathe” your produce (which conjures up imagery of scrubbing the whole time), you just let it sit afaik. There is a planning factor, but I can plan ahead and let it soak. Takes no more time.

              You’re comparing high range of one (water) with low range baking soda (which you call chemical bath), when there are massive ranges? That (along with misleading terms) is bad faith discussion there. So ciao.

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                It’s a chemical bath because there are various chemicals that they’re using to bathe them. I was lumping ozone bath, sodium bicarb bath and AlEW bath together and they’re all 3 different chemicals.

                It’s a bath because they’re being bathed which has nothing to do with scrubbing.

                AlEW bath is 48–85% after 45 minutes at a PH of 12

                Refrigeration was 60.9–90.2%. A 20 minute water bath was 26.7–62.9%.

                My advice is, and always was, scrub your veggies for 30 seconds before use.

                Your advice is plan it out so that you’ve got a high PH solution that you leave your veggies in for 45 minutes before use.

                If you see those as equal I have no idea how. I cook all the time - the amount of times that I’ve got 45 minutes of prep before starting is next to 0. I can’t eat at 9pm every night because I spent an hour waiting around for veggies to purify when I can simply wash them off in the sink.

                It’s insane that you wont see reason, but I get that you’ve decided you’re right and can never change your mind.

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                  It’s not 45 minutes of prep, you’re still talking as if you’re scrubbing working on it the whole time. IF you have the option before you need it, you go stick it in the solution. And you don’t need to sit there staring at it, you go do something else, you prep something else, again IF you have option before you need it.

                  And it’s not 45 minutes or bust, the longer it goes the more you get. The first study mentioned was based on 20 minutes. These are diminishing returns with time, so I expect 10-15 minutes will get you a ton.

                  Your advice is plan it out so that you’ve got a high PH solution that you leave your veggies in for 45 minutes before use.

                  And to address your strawman, which I thought the options were so blindingly obvious that I didn’t bother stating: If you don’t have that planning option, yes you can scrub the hell out of it but know that will get off far, far, far less. That was the whole point.

                  You are the one that won’t admit that you are wrong when the data is right there. You have to change it to you don’t have time and strawmans. Inb4 your next round, you can say I overspoke in my first comment, more accurately: “They’ve studied that and it doesn’t get rid of [much/most] pesticides.” Why do I bother with such bad faith. Ciao.

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    Ha bacteria! It’s not the water you should be worried about.

    It’s the quart gallon of vodka I wash it down with each night, as I try to blot out my existence.

    Fuck you bacteria (and my liver), I WIN!

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    The level of idiocy needed to think that the reason you rinse it is to kill bacteria is disturbing to imagine.

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    Err, your immune system can cope with a bit of bacteria. But if you don’t wash your salad and get a massive load into yourself, your body will deal with it by extorting everything in your stomach. E.g. you’ll puke the entire night. You’re welcome.

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      Yeah I wash my vegetables for grit. I don’t even care that much about bugs, but even the slightest amount of grit is terrible.

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    There are customers visiting my company. I was washing my hand in the bathroom sink when one of them, after doing his business, put his left hand behind, opened the faucet with the right, wet his fingers, closed the faucet, and left. Disgusting piece of shit.

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    I don’t know if this is effective, my wife soak the veggies in baking powder/baking soda, I forgot which. She said it kills bugs. Who am I to argue.

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    I understand the idea of removing the basic dirt and grim that could still be left on the surface of the lettuce. But the idea that running the vegetable under the water has any help in sterilizing it has to be pseudoscience. Too many adults have this mentality that washing produce purchased from the grocery store drastically reduces your chance of food born illness. If your food is contaminated with harmful microscopic organisms in a food outbreak. I doubt washing it is going to change much.

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      Try this neat experiment out.

      Cover your hand in a thick layer of Vaseline. Now drag it through some chocolate pudding. Finally rinse your hand off under a hot tap.

      Do you have chocolate pudding left on your hand?

      Sure, at a microscopic level you do. Even with the Vaseline. Will it kill your dog if you let them lick your hand? No.

      The rinsing is to remove free bacteria from the surface with the dirt. You eat bad bacteria all the time, but your immune response kills it before it makes you sick because you have reduced the bacteria from 500ppm to 10ppm by rinsing.

      This is completely different when that bacteria is on the inside, like when you fail to wash a melon and cut through it. Everything on the surface of the melon is dragged through the cut and embeds inside the fruit.

      Always wash and rinse your produce.

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        I am not against the actual act itself. It’s more the mindless routine many people partake and advocate for without questioning it in the first place. It’s more a lack of critical thinking and understanding of the general public. Which I know is a criticism that goes well beyond this simple act.

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    🎶 “All these, microscopically small things, worms shaped, like rings, inside, my gut, shoot-ing, from my butt” 🎶

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    It probably doesn’t do much, but I soak it in water with vinegar for 10 minutes.

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      I assume the ratio is low enough on the vinegar that it doesn’t impact the taste?

      Can’t imagine it would hurt anything if it doesn’t affect the texture.

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        Yup, 2-3 teaspoons in a bowl of water. I rinse it with water again after soaking and that washes away any sourness left behind.

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            You should clarify that you have to use a particular kind of bleach heavily diluted, and that it’s only common practice in the Americas.

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        I mean, if you want to include e.coli to your 10 pounds of bacteria, be my guest. Taking some precautions doesn’t hurt.