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[–] [email protected] 264 points 6 days ago (24 children)

Why would you expect tap water to kill bacteria?

You’re washing bugs and dirt off.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Its also wash out bacteria.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Username checks tf out.
o7

[–] Cris_Color 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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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[–] affiliate 13 points 6 days ago

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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[–] samus12345 65 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Who rinses things to remove bacteria? I just want to remove dirt.

[–] Agent641 7 points 6 days ago

We tell ourselves these lies, as we fear the truth.

[–] meliaesc 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

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...).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

Eating a little bit of dirt probably won't hurt you, but it is unpleasant.

[–] radioactivefunguy 11 points 6 days ago

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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[–] [email protected] 61 points 6 days ago (15 children)

You wash because of the pesticides.

[–] spankmonkey 35 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Also the bugs, fecal matter, and dirt that can be in the folds and pockets.

[–] Sinaf 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

Ok, but what about the ~~salad~~ lettuce?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You wash it because of the ratlungworm that raw snail and slug can give you.

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[–] WhatYouNeed 37 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

If you really think about it your liver is just a massive collection of bacteria

[–] M137 33 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] BluesF 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] CthulhuDreamer 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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....

[–] BluesF 5 points 5 days ago

Yes I suppose that's true.

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[–] FelixCress 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

if you don't wash your salad and get a massive load into yourself

Who spunks on a salad?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

Men of culture (bacterial)

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Bodies are pretty OK with dietary bacteria. Same goes for dirt, bugs, and Will Arnett.

[–] YarHarSuperstar 9 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Is ... Is that Will Arnett?? Or am I missing the joke?? It doesn't look like him to me.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (4 children)

This is Mark Hoppus from Blink-182

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

It's mark hoppus from blink-182

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Oh damn, you’re right! I skimmed past thinking it was one of these lol

Yeah no idea who that is in OP

[–] Sarmyth 30 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I just don't like the feel of dirt grit and bugs in my teeth.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] wildcardology 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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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[–] TheBannedLemming 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] GreenKnight23 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TheBannedLemming 1 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] FlyingSquid 5 points 5 days ago

If you can't scrub every lettuce leaf with borax before you eat it, you don't even deserve a salad.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Here’s me raw dogging my salads.

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