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The kid in me thinks that this is amazing and I wish I'd have been able to do something similar -- but current me thinks about how I could never use that crockp
by hh3k0 9y ago
The kid in me thinks that this is amazing and I wish I'd have been able to do something similar -- but current me thinks about how I could never use that crockpot for food again.
- pavel_lishin 9y ago> I could never use that crockpot for food again. They actually mentioned that the crockpot in question was brought home from a lab, and it was used specifically for cleaning biogoo from bones. But otherwise, I totally agree on the ick factor. I'm a little surprised that a crockpot with detergent, and then hydrogen peroxide, is all it takes to sufficiently disinfect dead critter stuff. (Then again, I toss raw meat in a crock pot and then shove it directly into my mouth, so I don't know why I'm surprised.)
- cm2012 9y agoFarm food is way way less disease filled than wild food, so your last note makes sense.
- JasonFruit 9y agoI throw wild game in the crockpot and eat the heck out of it.
- chrissnell 9y agoDisinfecting things isn't as hard as some might think. Sewage processing, for example, is pretty low-tech. By the time your toilet water makes it to the plant, most of the poop has dissolved. They run the liquid through a metal strainer to get most of the non-organics out (condoms, tampons, etc). Then the sewage is pumped into settling ponds where most of the solids settle to the bottom and they aerate it so that the bacteria can do their thing and digest it further. They move the liquid through a succession of ponds and tanks until it's basically clear and everything has settled out. To disinfect it, they either run it through a mesh of UV light tubes or add bleach (less ideal). After that's done, you could basically drink the water but they typically dump it into a stream.
- ars 9y ago> but they typically dump it into a stream And then the next city downstream gets that water and drinks it anyway. Depending on where you live (i.e. near a large river) reducing water usage doesn't really make much environmental difference, as long as you dump it in the sewer: The water gets reused many many times on its way to the ocean.
- adrianN 9y agoYeah, unless you live in an area that gets a chunk of its water from an fossil aquifer.
- emj 9y agoSewage treatment is really hard and a costly thing to do, it might be low tech but it is still hard to disinfect water once you have polluted it with water flushing toilets. Grey water is another thing completely but that is off topic here.
- CDRdude 9y agoI’m under the impression that that crockpot is only used for this purpose: >She put all the bones into the crockpot that I brought home from my lab as well (which we keep for the express purpose of defleshing stuff that, well, still has squishy/hairy bits on it):
- hh3k0 9y agoAh! I must have missed that! I feel much better now.
- killgrove 9y agoI forgot to put in the following story: As I was leaving my lab, carrying the crockpot, my department chair saw me: "Ooh, what delicious thing are you making?" Me: "Uhhhh, Cecilia and I are going to deflesh a raccoon this weekend." Him: "Ew. Now I'm not hungry anymore."