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So what can the salad eater do to be safe? Some pathogens can't be washed off. Others can if you scrub, but not if you rinse. If you buy the whole head, patho
by panarky 9y ago
So what can the salad eater do to be safe?
Some pathogens can't be washed off. Others can if you scrub, but not if you rinse.
If you buy the whole head, pathogens can hide in the core. And if you buy pre-cut bagged salad, how can you wash that?
What if you drench the salad in vinegar before eating it, will that kill E. coli O157:H7?
- TheCapn 9y agoWhat I've heard (and I'm only citing unverified word of mouth) is that E.Coli is within the leaf itself, it comes from the water it used. You cannot wash it off or clean it. An infected head of lettuce is garbage.
- heedlessly3 9y agowhat if you boil the vegetables in water?
- panarky 9y agoUgh. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01140671003767834 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/011406710037678... Skip down to the section on "Internalization of bacteria into deeper plant tissues"
- cortesoft 9y ago> And if you buy pre-cut bagged salad, how can you wash that? Not sure what you mean? Why can't you wash it?
- panarky 9y agoIt's chopped into hundreds of tiny pieces. Do you wash each piece individually? Or dump it into a bowl of water and swirl it around?? And then your salad is a soggy soup!
- brewdad 9y agoTry one of these: https://www.amazon.com/OXO-Good-Grips-Salad-Spinner/dp/B00004OCKR/ https://www.amazon.com/OXO-Good-Grips-Salad-Spinner/dp/B0000...
- ghostly_s 9y agoI...are you serious? You've never washed lettuce before? It's not like washing dishes.
- deathanatos 9y agoDoes dumping it into a colander, and running water across it not count? (Essentially, the same way one would wash fruit such as blueberries or strawberries, though I usually use the box those come in since they already have holes.)
- dunham 9y agoBerries benefit from a dip in hot water (it will retard mold growth): https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/dining/26curi.html
- Fomite 9y agoSalad spinners my friend, salad spinners.
- SmellyGeekBoy 9y ago> So what can the salad eater do to be safe? Carry on as you are? You're more likely to get hit by a bus than catch E. Coli from a salad.
- speedplane 9y agoAs to those wondering why this is significant: - Eating burgers and fries that turn out to be poison... "told you so" - Eating salad and veggies that turn out to be poison... wtf. A silly comparison, but it does raise the concern that even those that watch what they eat and try to be healthy can't escape the widespread bacterial problems in food in modern industrial food processing.