Sprouting Seeds & disinfection

[dizzydays]

Well, I was really getting into my newly discovered world of seed sprouting - and now all hell has broken loose and poor old sprouts are seen as deadly!
I know there are going to be loads of folk who have eaten raw sprouts all their lives and lived to tell the tale, but all this talk of e coli etc has put me off a bit. After all, don't want to survive a zombie invasion and die of salmonella.
I've googled- and it seems that some people soak their seeds - or their grown sprouts - in weak solutions of bleach/water. I'm thinking this is much like usual water purification we prep for. Some people say hydrogen peroxide works as a rinse for the grown sprouts.
Others soak the sprouts in boiling water with a dash of bleach....
So, what to do? I could just cook all the things but I imagine the more delicate sprouts just collapse if you lob them in a stew. I can't think there would be much nutritional value left either.
What does anyone else do?

[preppingsu]

use them in stir fry........

Not sure I would want to soak them in bleach.
From what I understand the seeds themselves are OK. The contamination has occured from another source ie being handled by some unhygienic idiot who didn't wash his hands after having a sh*t!!!!!!

Just watch when you use a pubil loo - even the ladies don't wash their hands after going...them touch doorhandles to get out, urgh

[Bladerunner]

You people actually eat SPROUTS??????

My dad swears by drinking sprout water. I think I would rather stick needles in my eyes.

Sprouts appear on my list of things to consume somewhere between slugs and my own urine.

At least that leaves more for eveyone else.

Be lucky

[preppingsu]

Something like this:
http://www.backyardnature.net/simple/alf-spr.htm

not brussel sprouts - they are only for the wicked on christmas day

[Bladerunner]

Hi Su,

Thanks for clearing that up for me.

Be lucky