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marlin55388
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Re: Defeating scrubee bacteria
Reply #30 - Jan 21st, 2011 at 5:07pm
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Drifting daydreams of the soft water season to come. The boy is laughing in my mind Grin "dried veggies daddy" and shaking his noggin running away!
  
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Reply #31 - Feb 9th, 2011 at 5:43am
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I use a scrubee which doesn't have any sponge component.  I think the sponge is where the bacteria really thrive.  An all plastic scrubbee is hard to find, but I finally found some at Cub Grocery Store.

Plus as mentioned, earlier, just boil the scrubbee and that will kill all the bacteria.

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Reply #32 - Feb 9th, 2011 at 1:49pm
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That's what I said earlier, Westwood.  At my favorite store an all-plastic scrubee is easy to find and I use them at home as well as in canoe country.  I don't think they keep any food residue on them if you rinse well, and I don't worry about packing them away wet.

I am not sure I would boil it, but I rinse it with boiling hot water when I rinse the dishes and call that good.

We have never gotten sick on a canoe trip.  We do filter our water.  When Spartan1 became immune suppressed (after the kidney transplant) I feared that the nephrologist would say "no canoe trips" but all she said was "use a water filter".  We were fortunate to have a nephrologist who actually had been to the BWCA--how lucky is that??   Grin

(Oh, yes!  I MUST have dry TP!  But I think that was another subject and sort of OT of this thread.)
  
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