By Essex Girl

Re: Raspberries
20 May 2008 17:23

Cookery books always seems to tell you not to wash soft fruit such as raspberries because they go all soggy, yet when you buy them from the supermarket the packet always says to wash before use. If I've got lots of time I do wash them and stand them hole side down to drain, but this is rather tedious! Anybody any thoughts on this?

Replies

By Broomstick

Re: Raspberries
20 May 2008 17:31

Never wash them, EG! Never been or made anybody ill yet! Somebody's going to say they've been sprayed, but so far have survived it! Having said that, just wolfed a box of blueberries, which I couldn't resist eating NOW!, and for about the first time ever I did wash them. Don't know why. (Tesco's have got them for £1.00 a box at the moment! Who can resist! £2.49 in W/rose!!)

By Bluebear

Re: Raspberries
20 May 2008 17:52

I agree with Broomstick I have never washed raspberries and have never been ill or made anyone else ill by not washing them!!

By iliketobake

Re: Raspberries
20 May 2008 17:59

I hardly wash anything i buy and again like the others i have never been ill.

By Mrs Sam

Re: Raspberries
20 May 2008 19:17

Have you noticed that people take fruit to people in hospital and they never get an opportunity to wash it.

By Sheelagh, Rossett nr Chester

Re: Raspberries
20 May 2008 19:22

I always wash everything....am I being paranoid?

By Sam, worthing west sussex, uk

Re: Raspberries
20 May 2008 20:17

I too never wash..even when i go srumping and turn it into jam!!!

I never wash grapes, or apples or couregttes or carrots or anything from either the supermarkets or grocers....its a waste of water!!!!

By *Bramble

Re: Raspberries
21 May 2008 08:30

Sorry but I do wash much-handled and sneezed upon supermarket fruit, my own out of the garden I don't though. But when I offered my neighbour a taste of my lovely just-picked whitecurrants she started squealing about the crreepy-crawlies she imagined had been on them! We all have different yardsticks :-)))

By gerry

Re: Raspberries
21 May 2008 12:14

I was once in a street market in Tel Aviv, had just bought some grapes and was about to pop one in my mouth when a man living nearby rushed over and pulled me into his house so he (or his wife) could wash them. Rather kind, I thought.

By Cinnamon

Re: Raspberries
21 May 2008 14:59

I always wash everything. Don't like the thought of cooking and finding soil in the food, too crunchy.

By Anushka

Re: Raspberries
21 May 2008 20:47

I always wash raspberries, blueberries, blackberries and any other fruit. And my raspberries have never gone soggy for that reason.

I often buy my fruit from a greengrocer's that has the fruit outside on the pavement. Gathering dust and car fumes. I have to wash the fruit!

Anushka

By judicupcake

Re: Raspberries
21 May 2008 22:24

I must say I never wash fruit. Yes I know the market vendor might have sneezed over them or handled them with dirty hands! I just happen to think that our obsession with cleanliness is one of the causes of so many allergies. Children don't have the chance to build up any resistance any more. In my childhood they reckoned you ate a pound of soil a year, and yet there weren't all the cases of asthma peanut allergies etc. WE seem to be so precious these days. Remember sucking the nectar out of clover flowers?