If you bring home food from a restaurant, for it to be safe do you need to heat it to a temp that would kill any kind of germ, or is a few seconds in the microwave good? Brought home bar-b-q with potato salad today. Did I need to nuke it?

I'm guessing someone here will know the answer.

Yes, microwaves will kill the virus

Better make your food molten

But on a serious note, anybody know duration needed for microwaves to inactivate the virus?

The video in this thread says food heated to 149 F for three minutes will kill it. I don't know if the microwave radiation itself will kill it quicker.

Siclaro beat me to it.

This seems like extreme overkill, has there been anything to suggest it travels through food? If it can live through more than a 30 second nuke we're all screwed.

DFWTLR said:

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This seems like extreme overkill, has there been anything to suggest it travels through food? If it can live through more than a 30 second nuke we're all screwed.

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You can't contract it by ingesting food, but if the food or food containers may have viruses on them, so you want to decontaminate before you touch them.

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DFWTLR said:

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This seems like extreme overkill, has there been anything to suggest it travels through food? If it can live through more than a 30 second nuke we're all screwed.

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You can't contract it by ingesting food, but if the food or food containers may have viruses on them, so you want to decontaminate before you touch them.

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Oh wow, so how does the virus infect you if your hand is contaminated and you touch your mouth? It sounds like he guy says it's unlikely.

It's all about probabilities. The highest probable vector of transmission being person to person through respiratory droplets and the least probable being eating food heated to 149F for 3 minutes (kills all the virus). There's everything in between.

I really encourage anyone with questions to watch the video as it addresses a lot of FAQs and "what if" scenarios. It's only 15 minutes and it's not like there's much to do anyway Raw foods are addressed @ 4:50 in the video. Transmission through food in general is highly unlikely and there have been no reports of such transmission.

Knowledge is power and these are things you actually have control over during this pandemic.

Here's an article from a week ago. Not sure they've determined the source. Seems like those markets are pretty filthy and doesn't necessarily mean patient 0 got it from eating food. Maybe blood splatter, sickly bat in a cage, etc

https://www.foxnews.com/world/what-are-the-wet-markets-coronavirus

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completely unrelated, but i wonder how long you can microwave a cockroach without killing it

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POTD!

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Transmission through food in general is highly unlikely and there have been no reports of such transmission.

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And I was told that's how this whole thing started.

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Yeah that is just people confusing ultimate cause with mechanism. The apparent reason this arose was due to the Chinese eating exotic animals that people shouldn't be eating. But it didn't transmit through eating it transmitted at the markets where the live animals were kept for sale.

This thread is so full of the bullsh#$ that staff warned against posting. You don't get the virus by ingesting it. If worried about the container,transfer the food with your clean utensils to your own plate. Wash your hands and clean where the container was sitting. There is no limit to the crap floating around here.

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Transmission through food in general is highly unlikely and there have been no reports of such transmission.

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And I was told that's how this whole thing started.

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Still technically true, bats aren't food

Safe at Home said:

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If you bring home food from a restaurant, for it to be safe do you need to heat it to a temp that would kill any kind of germ, or is a few seconds in the microwave good? Brought home bar-b-q with potato salad today. Did I need to nuke it?

I'm guessing someone here will know the answer.

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Hot potato salad? You might as well kill me! I draw the line there.

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DFWTLR said:

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This seems like extreme overkill, has there been anything to suggest it travels through food? If it can live through more than a 30 second nuke we're all screwed.

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You can't contract it by ingesting food, but if the food or food containers may have viruses on them, so you want to decontaminate before you touch them.

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Oh wow, so how does the virus infect you if your hand is contaminated and you touch your mouth? It sounds like he guy says it's unlikely.

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It doesn't. It gets in through your nose or eyes.