Jan 28

I got a dozen roses for valentines day. Can i used them for cooking?

The flowers have been around for a week now and haven’t wilted that much yet. I wanted to use them to make rose water for lemonade or some pastry. How safe is it to use them? If they’re not (because of pesticide or some chemical), is there a way of making them safe for cooking?

Probably not. You have to assume that they are NOT organic and have pesticides in/on them. There’s no way to make them safe for cooking, because the toxic chemicals may have been in the soil, so they’d be absorbed into the petals too

Valentines roses 2 Comments

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  1. Posted by TX2step 28th January, 2010 at 12:38 pm

    Probably not. You have to assume that they are NOT organic and have pesticides in/on them. There’s no way to make them safe for cooking, because the toxic chemicals may have been in the soil, so they’d be absorbed into the petals too
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  2. Posted by Noah D 28th January, 2010 at 1:05 pm

    Personally i would not use them unless I knew that they were raised for food use or they were from my own garden and i knew what had been sprayed or fed to them.

    I just don’t see the risk as being worth it.
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What do you think?