While home baking has become a favorite activity for many during
this stay at home period, I have decided to try baking of a different sort.
Instead of muffins, breads or cupcakes, an N95 mask is going through a supposedly heat cycle of sterilization.
As there is a world wide shortage of N95 masks for front line healthcare workers,
governments and laboratories are searching for effective ways to sterilize and reuse these precious resources.
Studies have suggested that exposure to heat at a certain temperature for an adequate period of time
or to vaporized hydrogen peroxide may do the trick.
The mask survived my little heating experiment but unfortunately I have
no way to test whether it has actually retained its filtration effectiveness.
DISCLAIMER: PLEASE DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME! :0)