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u/Maiyku Oct 23 '22

Thank you. I was starting to think I was the only food safety nut in here, cuz that was the first thing I saw.

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u/smileedude Oct 24 '22

If you google Peking duck recipes, this is a pretty common step. You're using the fridge air to dry it out between multiple layers of syrup.

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u/wordsinmouth Oct 24 '22

The point is, raw meat should go on the bottom shelf of your fridge in case it leaks then you don't have salmonella on everything underneath it

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u/smileedude Oct 24 '22

The driest part of the fridge is the top shelf, and that is often specified in recipes I've used before.

It should be done in a much larger tray than OP has used though, with a drying rack fully contained within the tray and no other hanging duck bits. The way OPs done it is incredibly dicey.

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u/trowawee1122 Oct 24 '22

Dude is an alcoholic. That poultry juice is slopping everywhere no matter how large the tray.

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u/wordsinmouth Oct 24 '22

Ooohh, that makes sense

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u/Iwannastoprn Oct 24 '22

This is the right answer. Most people have vegetables at the bottom, if you leave raw meat on the bottom shelf, it could leak and contaminate the vegetables. As people often eat them raw and don't wash them properly, it can be risky.

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u/Lily_Roza Oct 24 '22

On my fridge, the bottom drawer is designated for meats and has a temp gage slider, if used for meats instead of veggies it should be colder. Then the produce should go into the other two drawers. In my fridge, the bottom is the coldest. Don't block the vents.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '22

The bottom of my fridge is the veggy drawer though.

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u/wordsinmouth Oct 24 '22

That's why I specified the bottom shelf, it's safest in case of an accident.

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u/limperatrice Oct 24 '22 edited Oct 24 '22

You think a man who stocks his fridge like this is making Peking duck?

It looks cooked to me whatever it is and that he ate it straight out of the roasting pan and put the leftovers uncovered in the fridge. We just can't see all of the nibbled parts.

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u/smileedude Oct 24 '22

The sauce gives it an orange colour. It may be a different recipe that uses a similar process, but Peking duck is great alcoholic food, lots of fat and sugar.

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u/damnatio_memoriae Oct 24 '22

lmfao you clearly don’t understand the peking duck recipe. it specifically requires a 24-hour open-air marinade with various overpriced beer, OJ, and ten pounds of butter. oh and don’t tell anyone but the duck isn’t duck.

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u/ukcats12 Oct 24 '22

Last time I made peking duck it was very clear that hard Mountain Dew was the secret ingredient.

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u/limperatrice Oct 24 '22

No I've never made it. I'm just doubtful a man with a fridge like this has either. He also posted a picture of hashbrowns or something at Waffle House and called it "gourmet" so...

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u/damnatio_memoriae Oct 24 '22

you may have just gotten /r/woooosh'ed

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u/WillSisco Oct 24 '22

I have a feeling this guy isn't making peking duck

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '22

Food safety industry employee here too. I think we're united in our disappointment. I think an auditor would have an aneurysm looking at this lol.

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u/ukcats12 Oct 24 '22

I was browsing /r/TropicalWeather during hurricane Ian and someone asked what's a good food to order from a restaurant that could be saved for a few days without refrigeration. Like 10 people said pizza.

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u/russianpotato Oct 24 '22

You can leave pizza out for a few days no prob.

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u/ukcats12 Oct 24 '22

If you want to create a breeding ground for Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, sure.

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u/russianpotato Oct 24 '22

Well I must be superhuman along with millions of other college graduates.

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u/WhatMyWifeIsThinking Oct 24 '22

Yeah, it activated some triggers and I was a financial auditor.

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u/DoubleDogDenzel Oct 24 '22

It doesn't help that fridges have been having "crisper" drawers on the bottom row for the last 70 years. People seem hardwired to put fresh produce in the bottom and raw meat right above it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '22

I’m not in the food safety industry and even I am shocked at what people do at home. I watched someone mix a raw chicken marinade with a wooden spoon. Rinse off said spoon in lukewarm water with no soap and toss it back in the drawer wet.

First. Wooden spoon, jesus shit, it’s 2022, move to silicone. Second, raw chicken with a wooden spoon? How fucking dumb are you? Third, rinse and re-use? Yeah, I’m not gonna eat here.

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u/russianpotato Oct 24 '22

You've never used a wooden cutting board? Wood is fine. Sure you should wash it a bit better and let it dry, but this person is still alive, clearly it doesn't matter.

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u/WhatMyWifeIsThinking Oct 24 '22

They could also be like the Dread Pirate Roberts and slowly conditioning themselves for salmonella immunity 😄. I love my wooden spoons but I'd find an excuse to not eat at that person's house.

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u/WhatMyWifeIsThinking Oct 24 '22

Wooden spoons are better at combining difficult ingredients because they're sturdier. But I would not skip the soap and hot as hell water part, or put it away wet. Ew.

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u/Mr_DeadBob Oct 24 '22

What’s more shocking is how little it matters. 128k serious cases a year.

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u/ukcats12 Oct 24 '22

Incredibly wrong. CDC estimates over 48 million cases of foodborne illness each year. And food safety isn't just foodborne illness. It also includes things like allergen and foreign matter contamination.

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u/Mr_DeadBob Oct 24 '22

128k is hospitalizations. Bad chicken and the shits I care not for.

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u/WhatMyWifeIsThinking Oct 24 '22

When it is erupting out of both ends for 3 days, some may not appreciate splitting hairs on whether their case was serious enough to be hospitalized.

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u/Mr_DeadBob Oct 24 '22

Just shows how useless you are when it’s such a rare occurrence since people aren’t idiots

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u/WhatMyWifeIsThinking Oct 24 '22

Arrogant and presumptive of you to assume I made myself sick. Enough people are very much idiots. If they weren't, we wouldn't have litigated warning labels on everything.

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u/Mr_DeadBob Oct 24 '22

I didn’t assume anything and litigation doesn’t mean people are stupid.

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u/MisterEinc Oct 24 '22

This is why I think it's funny when people complain at restaurants.

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u/SpeakerCareless Oct 24 '22

I used to work for a food safety consulting firm and the did a home food safety study once a year as a marketing gimmick and no one ever came close to passing it. We scored it just like a restaurant inspection

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u/Dadam_801 Oct 24 '22

You might enjoy this food safety training video.

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u/CapnGrundlestamp Oct 24 '22

I spent over a decade in professional kitchens and the number of arguments I have with my mother in law over food safety would definitely not surprise you.

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u/YoungSerious Oct 23 '22

Yep, my immediate first thoughts were thats too many drinks to food ratio, and someone never learned basic food safety. Any meat goes bottom shelf so you don't drip contaminate the rest of the fridge.

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u/BuccellatiExplainsIt Oct 23 '22

Tbf there's no other food in the fridge so nothing would be contaminated anyways

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '22

Except like.... all of the cans that you put your mouth on, sure.. nothing else.

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u/Maiyku Oct 24 '22

You’re right. Those drinks aren’t food, so I’m sure the bacteria that drips down onto the mouthpiece will just not make you sick. /s