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.
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.
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.
I see this every time I go to a public bathroom. I fucking hate people for it
If you can’t scrub every lettuce leaf with borax before you eat it, you don’t even deserve a salad.
All the - small things.
The level of idiocy needed to think that the reason you rinse it is to kill bacteria is disturbing to imagine.
Who rinses things to remove bacteria? I just want to remove dirt.
We tell ourselves these lies, as we fear the truth.
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…).
Both the texture and whatever may be in it are undesirable.
Eating a little bit of dirt probably won’t hurt you, but it is unpleasant.
Also because gritty lettuce makes a salad I don’t eat. Spinach is the worst . . . plus it seems to have Listeria from time to time . . . 3.2 second wash minimum
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!
If you really think about it your liver is just a massive collection of bacteria
🎶 “All these, microscopically small things, worms shaped, like rings, inside, my gut, shoot-ing, from my butt” 🎶
🎶 “Norovirus sucks” 🎶
🎶 “I know” 🎶
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.
When you rinse salad with water you are not cleaning a significant amount of bacteria off it. You’re getting soil and bugs.
Unless your salad is contaminated with something, not washing it will at worst be gritty and unpleasant. It won’t make you ill. If it does, washing it will make no difference.
What do you even mean? Obviously, you are washing off all the bacteria that is in the soil and the bugs. It doesn’t make it sterile, but rinsing makes the overall amout of bacteria significantly lower…
Yes I suppose that’s true.
Clearly you haven’t heard of rat lungworm.
Sure, if you live somewhere with parasitic worms you should take extra care. Still, you aren’t cleaning bacteria off anything with water.
u a science man/woman?
a massive load
How about a pile?
if you don’t wash your salad and get a massive load into yourself
Who spunks on a salad?
Horus for one
Men of culture (bacterial)
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.
You’re thinking of vinegar. Soak them in vinegar.
Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate. Dissolving it in water will increase its pH. I’m not sure if that works for killing bacteria.
Yeah I just don’t like the feel of dirt grit and bugs in my teeth.
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.
Bodies are pretty OK with dietary bacteria. Same goes for dirt, bugs, and Will Arnett.
Is … Is that Will Arnett?? Or am I missing the joke?? It doesn’t look like him to me.
It’s mark hoppus from blink-182
Oh damn, you’re right! I skimmed past thinking it was one of these lol
Yeah no idea who that is in OP
This is Mark Hoppus from Blink-182
Thank you. Guess I’m just missing the joke lol
I think OP and I just have the same issue with similar looking faces, because I also thought this was Gob from Arrested Development.
This is Mark Hoppus from blink-182
I probably doesn’t do much, but I soak it in water with vinegar for 10 minutes.
Yall are crazy. You’re literally like 10 pounds of bacteria. 😁
I assume the ratio is low enough on the vinegar that it doesn’t impact the taste?
Can’t imagine it would hurt anything if it doesn’t affect the texture.
Plenty of salad dressings are just hopped up vinegars anyway.
Yup, 2-3 teaspoons in a bowl of water. I rinse it with water again after soaking and that washes away any sourness left behind.
You can also use a few drops of bleach.
Here’s me raw dogging my salads.
She’ll be right
