Why would you expect tap water to kill bacteria?
You’re washing bugs and dirt off.
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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.
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I 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
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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
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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
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You wash because of the pesticides.
Also the bugs, fecal matter, and dirt that can be in the folds and pockets.
You wash it because of the ratlungworm that raw snail and slug can give you.
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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
The level of idiocy needed to think that the reason you rinse it is to kill bacteria is disturbing to imagine.
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.
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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)
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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
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.
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.
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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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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.
Here’s me raw dogging my salads.
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