Veggie Wash

[bendejo]

Interested to know what people use to wash vegetables.

The Thais seem to use bottled water, but unless something is going to be cooked that's not enough. The iceberg lettuce at Tesco looks tempting.

I have some St Andrew stuff from a while back. I put it in a little dropper-bottle for travel, but I'm not really comfortable using it as I don't know the proper amount to use.

[damo]

Be very careful, I got e-coli after eating a vegetarian meal on a barge on Sirikit Dam, thought I was going to die. I guess it may have been something in the water used to prepare my meal.

[DP25]

I use tap water. Not sure what else you would use

[Pseudolus]

Straight from the tap as well; it's chlorinated. If you are that paranoid then do what hospitals do the world over; fill the sink with water, put in a puritab (water purification tablet; PURE sell them here) and wash it in that. I eat the iceberg straight from the bag.

E-Coli - highly unlikely to come from the water. More likely to be from a speck of poo left on your meal but some guy who minutes early cleaned his but the Thai way, washed his hands in cold un-soaped water and then prepared your salad.

[tutsiwarrior]

in Indonesia we useta use the bottled vege wash which is basically highly diluted chlorine bleach...where we live in small town rural Thailand I haven't felt the need and just use the chlorinated tap water...got some string beans in the sink right now as I type, and gonna make me a lovely 3 bean salad on Buddha's Day; olive oil with garlic, lime juice and lotsa fresh ground pepper...

[Soutpeel]

_{Miltons....the stuff they use to sterlise babies bottles....never felt the need to use here in Thailand, but used to when living and working in china many many years ago...very easy to get a case of Bejing belly from the veggies}

[F1fanatic]

I use St Andrews on veg that I'm going to cook. God knows what pesticides have been used so I hope (!) that St Andrews works...

Only a quick squirt is needed, but it doesn't matter as long as its washed off thoroughly.

For salads I prefer hydroponic veg - presumably no pesticides used.

[Seismic]

On the ship I worked on we receive some rather dubious veggies in some ports of call (east africa instantly comes to mind). Onboard medic insisted on washing everything in water mixed with potassium permanganate solution. Here in Bangkok, you can buy bottles of vegetable washing solution in Villa (Suk 33 I can confirm). hope this helps,

regards

[JSixpack]

You can use vinegar and hydrogen peroxide. Google for formulation and application.

[daoyai]

to attempt to remove pesticide residue, i soak in a mixture of water and dish wash detergent. then several rinses of tap water. my reasoning is the poison is in an oil base and detergent breaks down the oil.