Reply To: Salt or Soap?

I have the “OU Manual for Checking Fruits and Vegetables,” 3rd Ed.

The OU mentions using a vegetable wash, and when a vegetable wash is unavailable, unscented liquid detergent will do (OU).

Back in the day, I watched the most interesting video of a rabbi washing lettuce. It reminded me of that old laundry detergent ad where there is a guy stirring a dirty shirt in a glass bowl.

Anyway, the rabbi in this video used dish soap. He said that the soap makes the leaves slippery so the sticky pads on the bug’s hands come off. My dish soap is kosher.

Recently a friend told me that salt has the same effect. And so I saw online.

Warning: Do not read this manual over Shabbat. I did that. I figured that finally I had time to really invest myself in learning how to inspect produce just right.

Food. Even non-vegetables and non-fruit. Just kept reminding me of those pictures in the back of the book.

It’s like viewing the Most Wanted List.