"Doug Kanter" > wrote in message
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> "Dee Randall" > wrote in message
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>> Well, I got suckered into wax on my veggies again today. I have often
>> bought the small yellow/orange/red peppers that Costco sells, rinse them
>> off, leave them whole and just quickly 'fry them up.' I've noticed in
>> the past few months that one has to choose carefully not to get an
>> overdue package.
>> I just opened the package for lunch and took out a couple of handfulls
>> and my hands were full of more-like 'grease' than wax. It took a couple
>> of good washings to get this off my hands. I sprayed them with vinegar
>> and hope it will come off. If not, another veggie lost to the wind.
>> These are not available at my closest market, so I've been happy to get
>> them. I suppose there has been too much waste with the previous peppers,
>> so I would imagine that spraying them with the grease/wax was their
>> answer to lots of spoilage.
>>
>> I used to use some sort of grapeseed drops (very expensive) which you had
>> to drop into a container of water to set the veggies in. The bottles
>> became so tedious and the exercise so tedious that when someone suggested
>> that I try what they do, just spray with vinegar; I've been doing this.
>> Apples I peel, but I don't like to peel off the pectin. It's nice when
>> Fall is here and some are not sprayed.
>>
>> Anyone have anything they do differently to get the wax off -- or do they
>> just consider it safe.
>> Dee Dee
>>
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> Wax is the least of the problems living in or on our produce, due to the
> fact that the chemical industry owns enough legislators to do pretty much
> whatever it wants. But still, if you want to remove it, put a couple of
> drops of dish soap in a bowl with cold water and scrub the vegetables with
> a soft toothbrush or fingernail brush. Rinse, obviously. If this doesn't
> work, find another source for your peppers.
You bet! I decided when going to rinse the vinegar off that it resembled
more motor oil than wax. I didn't feel good about them so I dumped the lot.
Then I noticed my 6# bag of apples that I carefully chose over some others
(price not considered) after eating two yesterday that several today were so
Soft and mushy and had to throw two away. ANNNNDDD after taking my golden
potatoes out of the bag (DH chose those) when arriving home, we bagged them
up again to take back. Things are pretty bad when you get a bee in your
bonnet and lug a 10# bag of potatoes back. I wanted their snap baby beans,
too, but there was a bit of slime/rot in the package. Perhaps I won't take
the potatoes back, but they're there at the entrance giving me pause enough
to lay off Costco produce for some time to come.
However, my lunch without the peppers was still good.
Dee Dee