Common Food Safety Mistakes

[Anonymous]

I made too much tea the other evening, so there was still some left sitting on the counter the next morning. As I pondered if I should drink it, I remembered how my grandmother caught me once and yelled at me for wanting to drink 'overnight tea' in my young teenage years. 'It's bad for health.' she said, but she couldn't quite explain why other than it was passed down from elders and we should listen to elders. Of course, the rebel didn't listen to her.

Remembering this and wondering, if there was some scientific explanation for it, I turned to google. It turned out the elders were right (this time). "Tea left overnight - even if kept in the refrigerator - not only loses all its protein and vitamins, but it also produces more bacteria, fungi-breeding nutrients which will harm your health."

Other foods that should not be left overnight are

- Cooked Mushrooms

- Not-Fully-Cooked Eggs

- Leafy Green Vegetables

- Mixed Salads

- and Seafood.

You can head over to this website to find out why.

So it turned out I'd been making more than just one mistake. I didn't know about the cooked mushrooms, leafy green vegetables and seafood either!

After some more searching, I found this foodsafety.gov website that listed the most common food mistakes, including the reasons and the solutions for these mistakes.

- Mistake #1: Tasting food to see if it’s still good

- Mistake #2: Putting cooked meat back on a plate that held raw meat

- Mistake #3: Thawing food on the counter

- Mistake #4: Washing meat or poultry

I only started doing it after using a recipe from Jamie Oliver that specifically said to do it as the first step. I thought it was more sanitary that way, because of him. Who knew a master chef could give bad kitchen advice?

- Mistake #5: Letting food cool before putting it in the fridge

- Mistake #6: Eating raw cookie dough (or other foods with uncooked eggs)

- Mistake #7: Marinating meat or seafood on the counter

- Mistake #8: Using raw meat marinade on cooked food

- Mistake #9: Undercooking meat, poultry, seafood, or eggs

- Mistake #10: Not washing your hands

Did you know about all these common food safety mistakes? Will you see that you won't make them (anymore) or are you a follower of the quote...?

[AshleyMD]

Honestly as a society (western and other societies similar) we are too 'careful', and believe it or not being too careful is dangerous for your health. Your body needs to be exposed to pathogens that cause the least amount of harm so that when they really bad ones come, our immune system can knock it out a lot better had they not been exposed to even non-deadly pathogens. So eat that piece food that feel on the floor, the millisecond it hit the ground it was full of germs, and guess what, that's ok, you're not going to die and you most likely won't get sick at all.

[JackKerouac77]

HOLY CRAP MY LIFE IS A LIE

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[JackKerouac77]

@Ihav2fart

[Ihav2fart]

Its a lie! there are. bunch of cookie dough ice cream!

[BaileyisDarcy]

Heh
Don't eat things with raw egg in them, pff. You will never keep me away from my egg flips or my cake batter. Never.
How else are you going to see if it's still good?
Isn't it worse to put food straight into the fridge without letting it cool?
#2 is common sense.
What's wrong with the counter?
Undercooking is common sense.
Washing hands is common sense.

Some of these shouldn't need to be said, others I just won't listen to.

[myTake Owner]

You wouldn't believe how many people I've seen commit No. 2.

[moxygirl11]

I didn't no that about tea but I wouldn't drink overnight tea anyways

[YourFutureEx]

I knew most of them but not everyone knows about it. Thanks for sharing it :)

[astatine]

I knew most of them, but many really astonished me

[Pink2000]

This is common sense.

[ArabianPwincess197]

Nice take :)