[Sca-cooks] Food Safety while cooking

[DragonTamer]

Vinegar is acid, *most* bacteria (and I don't remember off hand which ones
*aren't* affected) deal badly w/ acidic environment. In short, they die
(nasty, horrible, painful-looking deaths).

Amanda Blackwolf
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan li Rous" <stefan at texas.net>
To: "SCA-Cooks maillist" <SCA-Cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Food Safety while cooking


> > Nambeanntan at aol.com writes:
> > > The solution doesn't have to be that strong.  One part bleach to ten
parts
> > > water works as a sanitizer without harming clothes.
> >
> > also distilled vinegar and water works great. Nontoxic unlike that
bleach
> > stuff. Bleach may be great as a sanitizer, but damn is bad for the
> > environment!
> >
> > 1 cup vinegar to 1 gallon water is plenty strong enough to sanitize
with.
> >
> > Finn, who is allergic to bleach.
>
> I must be missing something. I don't see how vinegar, especially
> when diluted down can work as a sanitizer.
>
> Some beasties lived long enough in the stuff to create it in the first
> place... and you're diluting it down quite a bit further.
>
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