In article >,
says...
>
> On 2014-12-19 23:43:06 +0000, Nancy Young said:
>
> > On 12/19/2014 6:09 PM, wrote:
> >> On Friday, December 19, 2014 2:19:03 PM UTC-8, sf wrote:
> >>> Don't they wash those apples?
> >>> http://wn.ktvu.com/story/27671390/pr...ed-to-5-deaths
> >>>
> >>
> >> I suspect those were windfalls that pickers put in their boxes anyways.
> >
> > Right. Still, drops or not, they should have been washed.
> >
> > I have bought some expensive pre-made caramel apples by mail.
> > You like to think they were washed before the other stuff is
> > added.
> >
> > nancy
>
> Can you wash away all traces of a bacteria? Somehow I doubt it.
>
> Everything is a risk.

Listeria is easily killed by heat. If you're making toffee apples the
trad way by dipping them in boiling sugar at caramelisation
temperature, that should kill any bacteria on the apple skin.


Janet UK