After
(and
Before)
Apple-‐Washing
When
all
the
apples
have
been
washed,
you
should
turn
them
upside-‐down,
so
water
doesn’t
sit
in
their
stem
ends,
which
could
make
them
rot,
God
forfend!
When
the
apples
have
been
washed,
they
may
be
left
in
the
drainer,
or
hand-‐dried,
and
refrigerated,
flat
on
the
shelf,
or
bowled,
or
plated.
My
own
practice
has
always
been
to
transfer
apples
from
drainer
to
fridge
whenever
I
happen
to
think
of
it.
In
other
words,
this
may
not
matter
a
bit.
Another
question,
more
fundamental,
is
whether
one
should
wash
apples,
at
all.
Are
unwashed
apples
less
likely
to
rot?
Of
course,
they
may
be
–but,
then,
they
may
not.
Then
again,
furthermore,
and
nowadays,
what
with
all
the
“No
Pesticide”
claims,
assuming
these
claims
aren’t
Fool’s
Gold,
apples
may
need
neither
washing
nor
cold.
“What’s
the
point,”
you
ask,
“of
all
these
quibbles?”
They
surely
stem
from
that
fibbling
fibble
of
our
first
parent,
the
one
who
told
God
the
lie,
in
the
Peek-‐a-‐Boo
affair,
and,
cast
away,
still
sows
doubt
everywhere.
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