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Sterile meat? Yuk! Why would someone want sterile meat? The best beef for example has been tenderized by bacteria for several weeks before being butchered. The
by jp555 12y ago
Sterile meat? Yuk! Why would someone want sterile meat? The best beef for example has been tenderized by bacteria for several weeks before being butchered.
There's maybe a couple dozen kinds of bacteria that pose a threat, the vast majority are either benign or good for us.
Attempting to eliminate food danger can paradoxically increase the danger. If you go to a grocery in Europe you'll see eggs sitting on shelves instead of inside the fridge as you'd see in the US. This is because eggs in the US are cleaned so much that the egg's cuticle is washed away, which is the egg's natural barrier to bacteria. In Europe they do not wash the cuticle away and eggs store safely on room-temp shelves.
I'd suggest that sterile meat is more dangerous as it is devoid of the natural bacterial "cloak" that provides protection from the nasty bugs.
- AnimalMuppet 12y ago> Why would someone want sterile meat? Maybe because they've had a nasty encounter with food poisoning? > I'd suggest that sterile meat is more dangerous as it is devoid of the natural bacterial "cloak" that provides protection from the nasty bugs. I'd like to see a reference to a scientific study that demonstrated that.
- jp555 12y agoI can understand that one might seek sterile meat after a bad experience, but unless they went CSI on everywhere they were for the time around the incident they cannot know exactly what the source of the poisoning was. It might have been a doorknob at work that was contaminated by someone who didn't wash their hands and had contaminated fecal matter on their hands. Deciding henceforth to only eat sterile meat would not solve that problem.