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Generally,the instant pot requires at least 1 cup of water when running, according to the manual. How does this work without water ?
Many of a Sautee mode used to brown meat, I dont think you need a 1 cup of water for that? or the ones with the Air Fry attachments...
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That's what I've been doing with a pack of N100s and it works fine. The problem is threefold: leaving it in a car out in the sun will quickly melt the glue holding the plastic filter to the mask, after a few uses it just quickly gets contaminated on the inside unless you're obsessive about decontamination before taking the mask off each time, and that month rating is because the plastic fibers used to make the electr…
Why don't you cycle 3-4 of them, wearing a different one each day? Viruses won't survive for longer than 3 days inside, so cycling multiple masks would solve the possible contamination issue.
if your concern is corona, there's no need to do any of this for most people, most of the time (i.e., not a front-line worker). the likelihood of getting live corona on the mask is pretty low, and any corona that does get on the mask will die naturally overnight. certain situations like going to a party might warrant it, but in that case, just throw the mask away and use a new one next time. if you're more worried ab…
And the reasons people ask for citations is what you are saying is very misleading. The CDC estimates that 45% of US Adults fall into these increased risk categories. So no, it's not just people fighting off cancer it's almost half the country. > We estimated that 45.4% of US adults are at increased risk for complications from coronavirus disease because of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, respiratory disease, hyper…
I've heard you can use 151-proof grain alcohol in lieu of rubbing alcohol (which has disappeared entirely from store shelves for months) in order to sanitize things. Apparently if you mix it with vegetable glycerin you can create your own ersatz hand sanitizer? I was thinking you could create your own rubbing alcohol by mixing water, sugar, and yeast, distill it over your stove, and then combine it with aloe vera to…
Please don't disinfect an N95 or N100 mask with alcohol (of any sort). It will dissolve the plastic fibers of the filter.
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Why don't you cycle 3-4 of them, wearing a different one each day? Viruses won't survive for longer than 3 days inside, so cycling multiple masks would solve the possible contamination issue.
what conditions are present to make this a constant? just heat and oxygen? moisture?
I bought one of these UV sanitizer boxes to sanitize my N95s: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B085XZPLVS/ref=ppx_yo_dt... I'm still not totally certain how well it really works, but I know it works better than those UV wands (you need at least a few minutes of exposure). It's also neat for a few other things that it's probably healthy to sterilize a bit more frequently (e.g. keys, phone, toothbrush heads).
Yup, my wife went all out and got one of those UV sanitizer boxes[1] too along with the Under Armour face masks[2]. Their instructions say to wash it but it's convenient to just place in a box. We have also been cleaning other items in there including baby toys. [1] https://lumolite.com/ [2] https://www.underarmour.com/en-us/p/ua-sportsmask/1368010.ht...
> Polyurethane open-cell foam lets air through ...
And virus particles.
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And the reasons people ask for citations is what you are saying is very misleading. The CDC estimates that 45% of US Adults fall into these increased risk categories. So no, it's not just people fighting off cancer it's almost half the country. > We estimated that 45.4% of US adults are at increased risk for complications from coronavirus disease because of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, respiratory disease, hyper…
Am I reading this right, does this mean that 45% of the country has a serious pre-existing medical condition?
Don't just look at single studies. This is a meta-review resource: https://www.n95decon.org/implementation It's a collaboration among the many people doing research on decontamination that also takes into account the tacit implementation knowledge of those who conducted the studies.
https://www.n95decon.org/files/heat-humidity-technical-repor...
There's a table of mask damage as a function of high temperature exposure time. All tests were well below the 100C cited by OP.
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Please don't disinfect an N95 or N100 mask with alcohol (of any sort). It will dissolve the plastic fibers of the filter.
How do you know this?