Somebunny
Executive Chef
I enjoy cantaloupe in all the ways perviously mentioned. I also like it with a scoop of cottage cheese and salt and pepper
Cool.I remember liking to spoon it off the wedge.
Yes, dipping them in your neighbor's pool would do the trick. Pools are chlorinated to sanitize them.
I have used bleach on occasion but not usually.
Hope nobody's done anything they shouldn't have in that pool.. And remember, though they are sanitized, sweat, salts, hair, toe-jam, etc. all live in those pools.
Me, I'll just eat my fruit fresh, and rinse under well water, with a bit of scrubbing with a soft bristle brush.
Seeeeeya; Goodweed of the North
How do you clean a bunch of herbs, GW? Something that would not take well to brushing. Do you think rinsing really does anything?
Use a salad spinner. Fill the bowl with water, put the herbs in the basket, and swoosh them around just like you were washing out a pair of socks. (Don't wring them out! )
Lift the basket out of the water, dump the bowl, rinse under the tap, then spin dry.
You don't have a salad spinner? Run out and buy one right now.
I think that just makes the germs dizzy
Back when the salmonella or E.coli scare (can't remember which) with the Mexican chain restaurant broke out a few years back, one of the news stations here mentioned something about how just a simple rinse under running water of the green onions would probably have washed off most, if not all of the bacteria.
Don't know how sound that advice was/is but there have been experiments done under controlled conditions that show there's not much difference in bacterial growth with well-rinsed versus washed hands, as well as just the opposite. So, basically, who knows.
How do you clean a bunch of herbs, GW? Something that would not take well to brushing. Do you think rinsing really does anything?
...Heck, I don't even eat grits!
If the offending bacteria are in the soil and are drawn into the veggies through their root systems, they end up INSIDE the veggies. No amount of rinsing will help.
I am definitely NOT from the food police, but you should wash the outside of the melon before you slice it. Some folks have gotten e. coli from the dirty rinds. Same goes for watermelon.