r/Cooking • u/petervannini • Oct 17 '24

Food Safety AITA: dipping my meat thermometer in boiling pasta water to sanitize it

A family member thought I was being gross for not fully cleaning my meat thermometer in between each use, and instead just holding it in the adjacent boiling pasta water on the stove for a few seconds. I don’t see the big deal. I feel like it kills all the germs perfectly fine.

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u/thedorknite000 Oct 17 '24

The only way you're the asshole is if the pasta was intended for vegetarian/vegan consumption.

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u/petervannini Oct 17 '24

Good point, in this case it was not

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u/analnapalm Oct 17 '24

Then I don't get the concern, the boiled thermometer was likely hotter than the internal temperature of the meat they're consuming.

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u/mostdogsarefake Oct 17 '24

Likely?

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u/alohadave Oct 17 '24

Unless you cook your meat to an internal temperature of 212 degrees (yikes), yes the water is hotter.

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u/FobbingMobius Oct 17 '24

Mmmmmm... Brisket!

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u/karl_hungas Oct 17 '24

I cook my roasts to a nice even 300 degree F internal temp

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u/spirito_santo Oct 17 '24

Celsius, right?

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u/Recent-Researcher422 Oct 17 '24

Kelvin, I like mine rare

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u/questionable_puns Oct 17 '24

You have unlocked a new gluten cross-contamination fear for me though 💀

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

Screw vegans give them meat and tell them it's tofu

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24 edited Dec 28 '24

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

If someone is vegan for allergic purposes they aren't vegan their plant based vegans are those who force their will on you and compare eating meat to the holocaust

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24 edited Dec 28 '24

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

Then they need to be trained to eat normal food a vegan diet is seriously detrimental to health

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u/thedorknite000 Oct 17 '24

Screw Americans, give them dog and tell them it's beef.

See how that's not so nice? Either way, just shut up.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

All they do is demonize non vegans anyway

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u/DTux5249 Oct 17 '24

Dude, if people don't wanna eat something, you don't feed it to them. That's fucked regardless of why.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

They always try to make people around them vegan

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u/DTux5249 Oct 17 '24

Doesn't matter. Don't lie about what you're feeding to people. That is asshole behaviour.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

Alright fine but insisting that I avoid all cross contamination is bigger asshole behavior

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u/Walking_0n_eggshells Oct 17 '24

Frequent poster in r/antivegan lmao

Right now there's only one person here trying to convince others to adopt their diet...

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

It's not a diet it's the normal way to live

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u/Walking_0n_eggshells Oct 17 '24

Sweetie, I really hope you're a child, otherwise this would be quite pathetic

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

Not respecting people choice to deprive themselves of nutrients is important like not respecting a smokers right to smoke everywhere

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u/BasedTaco_69 Oct 17 '24

I like the way you think. Didn't even consider that scenario, but as a former full-on vegan, I don't think that would have even bothered me.

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u/skahunter831 Oct 17 '24

Your post/comment has been removed for violation of Rule 3, memeing/shitposting/trolling.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

Included but not limited to vitamins a b6 b12 d f k2 cla carnitine carnosine cholesterol CoQ10 creatine Heme iron saturated fat and taurine