Why would you expect tap water to kill bacteria?
You’re washing bugs and dirt off.
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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I don’t think that salad bought in a store should have bugs and dirt on it, if you find them in your sink when you wash it you should change supermarket
EDIT: My bad, I was thinking about pre packaged salad, not like a whole head of lettuce, OP is correct and OOP should wash their lettuce better
Bro people poop in the fields because they literally just don’t have time to go back to the restroom in between shifts of picking
And I don’t blame them in the slightest. They have a very hard job
So I don’t know about you but I will always be washing any produce that I buy at the grocery store as soon as I bring it in my house
Bugs mean fresh and no pesticides!
BUGS GOOD!
It’s like finding soil on your tubers. It’s better to have to wash it off.
Lettuce grows in a bundle of very tightly packed leaves. At no part in the growing - transport - shelving - selling chain can anyone be expected to thoroughly wash between the leaves, especially near the root. Rinse your veggies before using.
Even pre packaged, check the package to confirm if you need to clean it or not
I don’t think
Yeah, we know…
That’s literally me, that’s who you made fun of.
Do you feel bed yet?
I wish I was in bed.
I’ve been using Original Commenter (OC) to talk about the person who starts a comment thread. Seems to be pretty intuitive. Wonder what the acronym would be for commenters responding to OC and starting different comment branches. Probably makes sense to just use their name
I feel like OP can be used to mean either the original thread poster or the author of a branching comment, granted that it’s properly contextualized, e.g. multiple layers of O lol. It’s awkward, but it gets the point across.
OC already means Original Content so at best you will just be confusing people.
Oof yeah true
Who rinses things to remove bacteria? I just want to remove dirt.
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…).
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
Eating a little bit of dirt probably won’t hurt you, but it is unpleasant.
Both the texture and whatever may be in it are undesirable.
We tell ourselves these lies, as we fear the truth.
You wash because of the pesticides.
Also the bugs, fecal matter, and dirt that can be in the folds and pockets.
Ok, but what about the
saladlettuce?We are talking about washing lettuce, prior to it becoming a salad.
Sorry, but I wanted to make a stupid “switcharoo” kind of joke that would imply a significant lack of personal hygiene on my part.
In German salad also means lettuce, so that’s why it wasn’t as clear as I wanted it to be.
You tried to make a joke, right here in front of my salad?
I always wash the fecal matter in my pockets very carefully - glad to hear my personal hygiene is passable.
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They’ve studied that and it doesn’t get rid of pesticides.
To get rid of pesticides you need to immerse it in a baking soda solution for about 20 minutes.
Thank you. I thought that pesticides wouldn’t come off with simple rinsing.
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
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.
u a science man/woman?
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if you don’t wash your salad and get a massive load into yourself
Who spunks on a salad?
Horus for one
Yeah I just don’t like the feel of dirt grit and bugs in my teeth.
The level of idiocy needed to think that the reason you rinse it is to kill bacteria is disturbing to imagine.
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.
Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate. Dissolving it in water will increase its pH. I’m not sure if that works for killing bacteria.
You’re thinking of vinegar. Soak them in vinegar.
If you can’t scrub every lettuce leaf with borax before you eat it, you don’t even deserve a salad.
She’ll be right
🎶 “All these, microscopically small things, worms shaped, like rings, inside, my gut, shoot-ing, from my butt” 🎶
🎶 “Norovirus sucks” 🎶
🎶 “I know” 🎶
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.
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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.
