• TheBannedLemming@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I understand the idea of removing the basic dirt and grim that could still be left on the surface of the lettuce. But the idea that running the vegetable under the water has any help in sterilizing it has to be pseudoscience. Too many adults have this mentality that washing produce purchased from the grocery store drastically reduces your chance of food born illness. If your food is contaminated with harmful microscopic organisms in a food outbreak. I doubt washing it is going to change much.

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      4 days ago

      Try this neat experiment out.

      Cover your hand in a thick layer of Vaseline. Now drag it through some chocolate pudding. Finally rinse your hand off under a hot tap.

      Do you have chocolate pudding left on your hand?

      Sure, at a microscopic level you do. Even with the Vaseline. Will it kill your dog if you let them lick your hand? No.

      The rinsing is to remove free bacteria from the surface with the dirt. You eat bad bacteria all the time, but your immune response kills it before it makes you sick because you have reduced the bacteria from 500ppm to 10ppm by rinsing.

      This is completely different when that bacteria is on the inside, like when you fail to wash a melon and cut through it. Everything on the surface of the melon is dragged through the cut and embeds inside the fruit.

      Always wash and rinse your produce.

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    6 days ago

    There are customers visiting my company. I was washing my hand in the bathroom sink when one of them, after doing his business, put his left hand behind, opened the faucet with the right, wet his fingers, closed the faucet, and left. Disgusting piece of shit.

  • M137@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    The level of idiocy needed to think that the reason you rinse it is to kill bacteria is disturbing to imagine.

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      6 days ago

      Only because you don’t like the color, or maybe the texture of dirt? We wash off dirt because it’s dirty, and dirty things aren’t good for us (because of bacteria…).

  • WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Ha bacteria! It’s not the water you should be worried about.

    It’s the quart gallon of vodka I wash it down with each night, as I try to blot out my existence.

    Fuck you bacteria (and my liver), I WIN!

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    🎶 “All these, microscopically small things, worms shaped, like rings, inside, my gut, shoot-ing, from my butt” 🎶

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    6 days ago

    Err, your immune system can cope with a bit of bacteria. But if you don’t wash your salad and get a massive load into yourself, your body will deal with it by extorting everything in your stomach. E.g. you’ll puke the entire night. You’re welcome.

  • wildcardology@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I don’t know if this is effective, my wife soak the veggies in baking powder/baking soda, I forgot which. She said it kills bugs. Who am I to argue.

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      6 days ago

      Yeah I wash my vegetables for grit. I don’t even care that much about bugs, but even the slightest amount of grit is terrible.

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    7 days ago

    I probably doesn’t do much, but I soak it in water with vinegar for 10 minutes.