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Takeaway Safety
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Mrs A says she read somewhere that if you microwave incoming takeaway containers it is protection against covid infection.
Any truth in this? (And yes I do exclude tin-foil containers!)
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Any truth in this? (And yes I do exclude tin-foil containers!)
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You have four choices when handling your takeaway containers:
1. Stand them in boiling water for ten minutes.
2. Spray them with an 80% alcohol sanitizer.
3. Order the food three days before you need it and then leave them in the carrier bag for three days without touching them. The stuff will be stone cold when it arrives anyway and the "quarantine" will add to the delicate flavours and textures generated by the food being thrashed about in a box on the back of a scooter for twenty minutes.
4. Stop being so silly by treating any object that somebody else has touched as a potential death trap, open the containers and eat the food. From many establishments you are probably more at risk from food poisoning than you are from Covid.
1. Stand them in boiling water for ten minutes.
2. Spray them with an 80% alcohol sanitizer.
3. Order the food three days before you need it and then leave them in the carrier bag for three days without touching them. The stuff will be stone cold when it arrives anyway and the "quarantine" will add to the delicate flavours and textures generated by the food being thrashed about in a box on the back of a scooter for twenty minutes.
4. Stop being so silly by treating any object that somebody else has touched as a potential death trap, open the containers and eat the food. From many establishments you are probably more at risk from food poisoning than you are from Covid.
And the next time you see a pizza/ or another food delivery bike on the road take note of the filthy bag they carry your food boxes in, contamination on the outside of your food box will almost certainly transfer to the food. Plus they will use any old Tom Tick or Harry to get it to you, who have know knowledge of food hygiene.
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//Bothof us have (different) heart diseases, Type2 diabetes, both hospitalised this year, me with pneumonia, Mrs A with fluid on the lung, both in our 70s.
And you want us to further put our lives at risk?
You can luck off, then.//
Then you should be considering whether you should be eating takeaway food at all. Quite honestly, with those sort of health problems contracting Covid from contact with a takeaway container is the least of your worries. It's what's inside the containers that should be of far greater concern.
And you want us to further put our lives at risk?
You can luck off, then.//
Then you should be considering whether you should be eating takeaway food at all. Quite honestly, with those sort of health problems contracting Covid from contact with a takeaway container is the least of your worries. It's what's inside the containers that should be of far greater concern.
Some years ago, a local Indian takeaway, (they were friends of friends,), asked me to help, leak under kitchen sink.
The shop was pristine, high rated from the council.
The kitchen left a lot to be desired, and under the sink was thick black mould.
I fixed the leak, and thankful, they offered me a free meal.
I politely declined.
The shop was pristine, high rated from the council.
The kitchen left a lot to be desired, and under the sink was thick black mould.
I fixed the leak, and thankful, they offered me a free meal.
I politely declined.
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