>>11501251Apparently 10 mins at 70C will sufficiently kill E.Coli, which is being used as an analog to the virus, so I assume that if you suffuse the mask to enough 100C water vapor it will also kill the virus. I'm a hypochondriac and autistic (obviously, I'm on /sci/) so I wonder at the logistics of that, how do you ensure that the mask is sufficiently suffused with steam short of some kind of pressure chamber. That kind of gets at the same question as boiling, however: is it safe to pour a bunch of water (possibly) filled with boiled viruses down the drain? Presumably the water filtration systems can handle that much, so I guess if you just followed it up with hot water you'd just get them all anyways, right?
The problem with microwaving them in the study is that they were using it on disposable plastic masks, where as I'm considering using this for reusable cloth masks. Apparently two layers of cloth is more or less the same as a surgical mask, better if you use vacuum filters (which allows for non-cloth masks with home-made filter systems, but then you have to have a supply of filters, and cleaning a filter is just a fucking pain). But what about the nosebridge, which will certainly be metal? I wouldn't want to chuck a paperclip in a microwave and nuke it for 10min, especially with cloth around it.
The best idea I had was using a pressure cooker of some kind, to steam up the water+mask at high pressure (where we can assume that the entire mask is suffused with hot water, steam, and boiling water). The water should be pretty clean, as should the inside, because of the heat and pressure. Then hang-dry the mask in the sun to dry it, as UV is also a good method of cleaning (but not really feasible unless you have an at-home UV chamber for some reason).
