• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    About 1 in 20,000 eggs in the US contains Salmonella. With proper precautions (basic hygiene and cooking to a high temperature of a bit over 70°C), this risk isn’t high. In fact, it’s estimated that the risk eating cooked eggs is a few orders of magnitude lower than raw eggs – about 1 in 68 billion. However, when you absolutely know that you have eggs in a range that have an extremely high risk of Salmonella, this idea is just stupid and not at all worth even the relatively low risk, because the problem you likely run into isn’t the safety of the cooked food – it’s the safety of the handling of the food as you’re preparing it. If your next grocery trip is a ways out, the eggs might spoil, but the UPC is what Costco cares about here. If you can’t be bothered, then you should probably just toss them.

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          Kinda! At 10% ethanol (20 proof), you don’t get new growth. Up to around 50%, it kills salmonella slowly. So about 1 part 151 to 2 parts not and you’re golden.

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            20 hours ago

            I think your ratios are backwards? ((1*75%)+(2*0%))/3= 25% but ((2*75%)+(1*0%))/3=50%

            Edit: unless it’s anything 20% to 50% that works.