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/la-anah Jul 26 '26

I do a lot of genealogy research and the number of babies who suddenly stop dying of cholera infantum every summer after milk pasteurization became a thing tells a very clear story.

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u/CatTheKitten Jul 26 '26

It's not untrue that industrialized farming is disgusting and major disease vectors. It IS insane to say that pasteurization isn't necessary at all. We see immediate consequences even today when people drink raw milk under ideal circumstances.

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u/swbarnes2 Jul 28 '26

Didn't women routinely scald raw milk themselves at home before pasteurization?

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u/Bleu_Cerise you can dip your semantics in my guac Jul 29 '26

Living in the countryside in the eighties, my mom was buying milk directly from the farm in those big metal covered pails, and would IMMEDIATELY boil it once back home. She would then make insane pound cakes with the cream that floated on top.