SC - whey preserved foods (long)

[Stefan li Rous]

Anne-Marie Rousseau wrote:
> 
> hi all from Anne-Marie, your friendly neighborhood microbiologist :)
> 
> Sindara sez:
> >> When I was nursing my duaghter, the lactation consultant told me not to
> >> wash the baby bottles, breast pump parts or even my hands with anti
> >> bacterial soap.  She told me that it kills both the good and bad bacteria
> >> which leaves an environment ripe for the growth of those little yeasties
> >> that cause Thrush. Regular soap like Ivory works just as well.
> 
> Soap by its very nature is antibacterial. Those phospholipid membranes
> really hate the stuff. In the lab, where we work with way worse bugs than
> most of you ever see, we use hot water (lots!) and regular hand soap and
> heavy duty scrubbing. Really, its the hot water and scrubbing that does
> most of the work, since the little guys get rinsed off down the drain
> pretty easily.


OK, here goes...

A while back I saw a documentary on the telly (yes, sorry, it's probably
pseudoscience) that said humans couldn't stand the amount of heat
required to kill off bad bugs, so we are better off using cold water
since that retards their growth and the temperature of hot water we like
is what the bugs like too, thus causing them to multiply more
prolificly(sp?).

Melisande
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