The level of idiocy needed to think that the reason you rinse it is to kill bacteria is disturbing to imagine.
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
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.
I am not against the actual act itself. It’s more the mindless routine many people partake and advocate for without questioning it in the first place. It’s more a lack of critical thinking and understanding of the general public. Which I know is a criticism that goes well beyond this simple act.
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.
Why would you expect tap water to kill bacteria?
You’re washing bugs and dirt off.
Its also wash out bacteria.
The mechanical action of water running and wiping is what takes out 90% of germs and bacteria already. Soap is only responsible for that next 9%.
There’s still 1% unless you autoclave it.
Tldr: You probably don’t need soap for dishes if you wash them during initial rinse immediately after use and they aren’t super gross.
You still want to wash and soap your hands cause 10% of cold germs is plenty.
Also quit licking your fingers to open the plastic bags for produce at the store you filthy fucks.
Username checks tf out.
o7I mean that only seems like it’d be true if oil isn’t involved, since running water over something coated with oil seems like it’d do pretty much nothing
Through the power of not letting the oil set, and using a rag or brush with warm to hot water, you will be surprised just how little to no soap you need at all.
Fwiw I’m not cleaning greasy ass pans regularly either. We’re too poor for that lol.
the belief that a quick 3 second rinse will kill off bacteria seems to be consistent with the ways that most people try to wash their hands
No I’m not!
I don’t think that salad bought in a store should have bugs and dirt on it, if you find them in your sink when you wash it you should change supermarket
EDIT: My bad, I was thinking about pre packaged salad, not like a whole head of lettuce, OP is correct and OOP should wash their lettuce better
They’re definitely washed after being harvested, but as someone who has seen how it’s stored between that and the store shelves, I’ll give it a rinse every time.
You might be thinking of pre-packaged salad which, while already washed, can still contain bacteria. But if you’re buying plain lettuce, it’s absolutely not pre-washed.
Ah, you’re right I was thinking about the pre packaged one, now all the people telling me they have found multiple bugs in their lettuce makes sense considering I would probably expect to find small bugs and dirt in a whole head of lettuce
I feel that they still spray it with water, even if not thoroughly, just to remove the biggest pieces of dirt. But I may be wrong.
Bro people poop in the fields because they literally just don’t have time to go back to the restroom in between shifts of picking
And I don’t blame them in the slightest. They have a very hard job
So I don’t know about you but I will always be washing any produce that I buy at the grocery store as soon as I bring it in my house
we’re not far off from grocery store workers having to do the same
Used to work at a supermarket. We would hide the poop behind the cheese section so it wouldn’t stink
Lettuce grows in a bundle of very tightly packed leaves. At no part in the growing - transport - shelving - selling chain can anyone be expected to thoroughly wash between the leaves, especially near the root. Rinse your veggies before using.
And that’s for iceberg lettuce. Romain and it’s kind have loose leafs so a ton gets in there. Bok Choi too, I cook with it a lot and I see a bit of dirt in there all the time. I always give my veggies a good rinse.
Bugs mean fresh and no pesticides!
BUGS GOOD!
It’s like finding soil on your tubers. It’s better to have to wash it off.
Also, unwashed potatoes will last longer, as water causes fungus and bacteria to grow.
I don’t know where you live but I’m in Australia and I also lived in South America and I’ve seen plenty of dirt, caterpillars, aphids and flies too many times on my lettuce, harvested from different sources, seasons, and purchased from different supermarket chains and small grocer shops.
And it was never a problem for me. Where are you getting your sterile lettuce from, so I make sure I don’t?
Even pre packaged, check the package to confirm if you need to clean it or not
I don’t think
Yeah, we know…
That’s literally me, that’s who you made fun of.
Do you feel bed yet?
I wish I was in bed.
I’ve been using Original Commenter (OC) to talk about the person who starts a comment thread. Seems to be pretty intuitive. Wonder what the acronym would be for commenters responding to OC and starting different comment branches. Probably makes sense to just use their name
I feel like OP can be used to mean either the original thread poster or the author of a branching comment, granted that it’s properly contextualized, e.g. multiple layers of O lol. It’s awkward, but it gets the point across.
OC already means Original Content so at best you will just be confusing people.
Oof yeah true
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…).
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
Both the texture and whatever may be in it are undesirable.
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.
This is Mark Hoppus from Blink-182
I’ve made a huge mistake
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
Oh damn, you’re right! I skimmed past thinking it was one of these lol
Yeah no idea who that is in OP
It’s mark hoppus from blink-182
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
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?
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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)
a massive load
How about a pile?
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.
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.
Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate. Dissolving it in water will increase its pH. I’m not sure if that works for killing bacteria.
You’re thinking of vinegar. Soak them in vinegar.
Here’s me raw dogging my salads.
It 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 mean, if you want to include e.coli to your 10 pounds of bacteria, be my guest. Taking some precautions doesn’t hurt.
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.
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.
You should clarify that you have to use a particular kind of bleach heavily diluted, and that it’s only common practice in the Americas.
Plenty of salad dressings are just hopped up vinegars anyway.
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