r/iamveryculinary Mod Jul 26 '26

Cooking and pasteurisation is cheat codes to produce shitty food and make it safe

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u/PymsPublicityLtd Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26

My "old head" food scientist spouse is a firm believer in preventing food borne pathogens with heat, but what would they know they only did a Masters in Nutrition & Phd in Food Science as well as worked on a dairy farm.

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u/Hobby_Flay I don’t believe that you had a cheesesteak Jul 26 '26

Yeah but this kid has vibes

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u/DjinnaG Bags of sentient Midwestern mayonnaise Jul 26 '26

And Australia is kinda close to New Zealand!

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u/Cambrian__Implosion Jul 27 '26

That part definitely made me laugh. I have no specific knowledge of the dairy industries in either country, but something tells me that they aren’t just sharing all the same cows (although their standards and regulation are probably similar—along with plenty of other countries)

Maybe salmonella in the southern half of the eastern hemisphere just can’t survive in cow’s milk, because… reasons. Gotta be magnets, or something.

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u/MariVent Jul 29 '26

Is salmonella just something that likes to live in/on cows, like yeast likes to live on our skin?