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Title:How to Make them Goodies
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Moderator:FUTURE::DDESMAISONSec.com::winalski
Created:Tue Feb 18 1986
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4127
Total number of notes:31160

3320.0. "cleaning food" by ESMAIL::NIKKI () Tue Nov 12 1991 07:45

                
    Is there a way to clean your veggies and fruits?  Like I heard
    two different ways to supposingly remove pesticides from them.
      
        1.  Add 1 T baking soda to 1 qt of water.  Soak 30 mins and
            rinse
    
        2.  same as 1 except use salt
    
    Does this really work?
    
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3320.1salt to rid green wormsSTUDIO::PELUSOPAINTS; color your corralThu Nov 14 1991 08:395
    When I use fresh veggies, I clean the sink well, fill with warm water
    and add salt.  When I do this, espicially with fresh brocolli (SP),
    peppers, lettuce, I find little green worms floating around. They 
    come out right away too!  Then I rinse well and do what ever I 
    was planning to do with them.
3320.2NO more wormsKALE::ROBERTSThu Nov 14 1991 10:028
    re .-1
    
    Neat!  I hate it when those yecchhy worms appear on my plate.  And it
    seems that with the curly-leaved stuff, I spend forever poking around
    looking fo the little critters, and still don't get them all!
    
    thanks,
    ellie  
3320.3STUDIO::PELUSOPAINTS; color your corralThu Nov 14 1991 13:017
    re: -.1
    
    I found out about this while talking `gardens' w/ a coworker, and I
    told him how much I loved home grown brocolli (SP), and then, he tells
    me about the worms......it was quite awhile before I ate brocolli
    again, and then I always soak it.
    
3320.4how muchESMAIL::NIKKIFri Nov 15 1991 07:356
    re. -2
    
    How much salt and how long do you soak it?
    
    thanks
    
3320.5You can soak lettuce, tooTNPUBS::STEINHARTFri Nov 15 1991 09:157
    You can do the same thing with lettuce, particularly Romaine, if you
    are very partick-lar.
    
    Kosher cooks do this routinely, because eating worms and other bugs is
    a major no-no.
    
    L
3320.6PSW::WINALSKICareful with that VAX, EugeneFri Nov 15 1991 22:265
The little green worms that you find on broccoli are cabbage butterfly
caterpillars.  Cabbage butterflies are the small white ones you see all over
the place.

--PSW
3320.7STUDIO::PELUSOPAINTS; color your corralMon Nov 18 1991 12:577
    how much?  I never really measured.....I may fill a bowl or sink basin 
    with warm water and add about...if you cupped your hand and poured 
    salt into the center....whats that about a tablespoon?
    
    I'm not Kosher, but I think eating bugs is gross!
    
    
3320.8cider vinegarCSCOAC::WILLIAMS_LThu Dec 26 1991 15:495
    A friend of mine dips/cleans all fresh veggies and fruits in cider
    vinegar, then rinses in water before cooking/eating.  She saids it gets
    rid of the pesticides.
    
    Loretta
3320.9cleaning foodWLDWST::OMOLUTue Mar 24 1992 18:435
    I've also used dishwashing liquid. You find that it removes the oily
    residue on produce. Of course you can't use this method on lettuce. 
    
    
    Michelle