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Comment on I’m a microbiologist and here is what (and where) I never eat in ~food
aeolitus LinkThe statement "Do not eat meat if its internal temperature is less than 70℃ (158ºF)." already lost me... Sure, if your primary goal in life is to avoid food poisoning, that might be justifiable....The statement "Do not eat meat if its internal temperature is less than 70℃ (158ºF)." already lost me... Sure, if your primary goal in life is to avoid food poisoning, that might be justifiable. But otherwise, people do tend to eat for pleasure, and cooking meat to that temperature ruins most meats.
So the question is, am I to interpret this as an insightful look into a germaphobes head, or as advice? Because if it's the latter, the authors priorities seem far out from what I'd consider normal, and it overshadows all other advice for me for the remainder of the text - how serious should I take their other advice if this simple tidbit is already so far from what I'd consider reasonable? I guess it ultimately depends on where in the safety vs pleasure scale one falls, and the beginning already signals to me that the author is very far away from me.
As an aside, the authors position also also just seems wasteful to me - advocating to never take home leftovers might be safer, but it's also a very unsustainable position in a country with massive portion sizes and an unfathomable amount of food waste.
Thank you so much for pointing that out - I spent all of today glued to my phone reading #9, which is really more of a novel than anything else. Not sure how this came to be on some random law page, but my week has been improved considerably for it! What a touching story of age, guilt, responsibility and closure.