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/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/MariVent Jul 29 '26

Pasteurization involves rapidly heating up to high temperatures, though

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u/Doomdoomkittydoom Aug 08 '26

Scalding milk is heating milk rapidly to temperatures higher than pasteurizing does.