Electric cooker an easy, efficient way to sanitize N95 masks, study finds

[SheltieLover]

https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/143865832

One 50-minute, 212 F cooking cycle in a dry electric multicooker decontaminates an N95 respirator without chemicals and without compromising the filtration or fit.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Owners of electric multicookers may be able to add another use to its list of functions, a new study suggests: sanitization of N95 respirator masks.

The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign study found that 50 minutes of dry heat in an electric cooker, such as a rice cooker or Instant Pot, decontaminated N95 respirators inside and out while maintaining their filtration and fit. This could enable wearers to safely reuse limited supplies of the respirators, originally intended to be one-time-use items.

Led by civil and environmental engineering professors Thanh “Helen” Nguyen and Vishal Verma, the researchers published their findings in the journal Environmental Science and Technology Letters.

More at link.

[herding cats]

1. My One Pot truly is as amazing as I've said all these years! 🤣

I'm glad to see this potential hack to help first responders. I apologize for the joke, but I'm one of those annoying people who discovered them early on and spread their virtues far and wide back when.

[SheltieLover]

2. Glad you have one!

I don't, but I do have a few treasured N95s left.

[herding cats]

3. I only have two.

I had them since before the pandemic and I'm so glad to learn how to keep them going.

Thank you!

[SheltieLover]

4. Yw!

Glad to have found the info to share! 😁

[NightWatcher]

5. And it will smell like fried chicken tomorrow, bonus!!!!

[SheltieLover]

6. Lol!

[MoonlitKnight]

7. How about we just make more

We have already wasted over six months.

[SheltieLover]

8. Ikr???

Can't wait till we have a real president whose mission is NOT to kill, disable & destroy our country for putin!

[MoonlitKnight]

10. Agreed

It’s a shame people have to die in the meantime.

[SheltieLover]

11. Sure is!

Heartbreaking!

And criminal! 🤬

[SheltieLover]

9. Someone replied to a post awhile back

Saying the N95s take quite awhile to make. Sorry I can't remember exactly what the person said.

But with Joe at the helm, vs trumputin, I feel safe in saying this ridiculous lack of ppe will be resolved! 🤞