[Sca-cooks] Garlic Question

[Chris Stanifer]

--- Stefan li Rous <stefan at texas.net> wrote:
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>
> Huh? Why can you keep cheese in olive oil
> indefinitely, but not garlic?

First of all... you can't keep cheese in olive oil
indefinitely.  You can keep it for awhile, under
refrigeration.  The only food product which will not
spoil is honey.

>
> What if you could kill any beasties that were
> already in the garlic, by
> parboiling or zapping in the microwave first? Would
> the garlic then
> stay safe in the olive oil?

Unfortunately, no.  C. botulinum has a nasty tendency
to revert to a spore state when things start to get
too uncomfortable.  In this state, ain't no amount of
cookin' gonna kill it off.  It will simply spore up,
and wait until things get back to normal...then
attack.

Balthazar of Blackmoor





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