To all posters: You all act as if halacha and tradition started when you came of age and it did not exist beforehand. The subject of this thread was the “kula-ization’ of judaism, to which I responded that it has become the “chumra-itazation” of yiddishkeit. I brought a number of examples -most of which no on contested- and we bogged down to a conversation of how to check strawberries. My contention has been that all the newfangled ways of extrme checking never existed in europe and only became fashionable in very recent years. That was my proof of the “chumra-itazation’ of yiddishkeit. Does anyone of you dispute that?
You are entitled to do whatever you want to do and so am I and people who think like me. If I am wrong, then I will face that before the “bes din shel maaloh”. For now, I am confident that what I do is sufficient.