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!
Who rinses things to remove bacteria? I just want to remove dirt.
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.
We tell ourselves these lies, as we fear the truth.
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!
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?
Men of culture (bacterial)
Horus for one
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.
The level of idiocy needed to think that the reason you rinse it is to kill bacteria is disturbing to imagine.
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.
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
It probably doesn’t do much, but I soak it in water with vinegar for 10 minutes.
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.
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.
She’ll be right
🎶 “All these, microscopically small things, worms shaped, like rings, inside, my gut, shoot-ing, from my butt” 🎶
🎶 “Norovirus sucks” 🎶
🎶 “I know” 🎶
All the - small things.
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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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.
