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One only needs to check for bugs that can be seen by the naked eye. You do not have to use a microscope and other contraptions! I saw an ad for a bug checking device – this is not halachically required. Do you think they had lights with microscopes years ago?
We clean brocoli and cauliflower in a white bowl with salt and bicarbonate of soda. For some reason the bugs rise to the top of the water with the bicarb as it foams up, brilliant and easy. We clean aspargus with a baby toothbrush – works wonders!
Hashem gave us all these fruits and veggies to enjoy. If we weren’t supposed to enjoy them he wouldn’t have gven them to us. That’s how I look at it.