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i made sweet potato fries tonight with a nice seasoning and dipped them in mayo and they were delicious.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
Grills, raw meat, spatulas:
The burger cooks on the grill. The spatula is used to flip the burger, thereby contaminating the spatula with raw meat. Minutes later, the meat is flipped again; the spatula remains contaminated.
In the end, the spatula is used to remove the cooked burger from the grill, potentially contaminating the burger with raw meat.
What to do? Do you leave the spatula on the grill for a while to kill any bacteria? Do you wash the spatula between the flip and the removal of the burger from the grill?
Why are you flipping the burger before the first side is done?
Now, if you really want to get into contamination, think about when you brown your favorite meat for tacos and the spoon/utensil used for that.
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no, the first side is done when it's flipped. your taco meat dilemma is a good analog, but in that case i can just leave the utensil in the pan for a while. This is less easily done with my grill.
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But his point with the burger is you don't get raw meat on the spatula, because you are flipping it when the side is done. Also, you shouldn't be flipping it a second time. I'm confused, because didn't trag pose the question but then agree with wease?
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tragabigzanda wrote:
Grills, raw meat, spatulas:
The burger cooks on the grill. The spatula is used to flip the burger, thereby contaminating the spatula with raw meat. Minutes later, the meat is flipped again; the spatula remains contaminated.
In the end, the spatula is used to remove the cooked burger from the grill, potentially contaminating the burger with raw meat.
What to do? Do you leave the spatula on the grill for a while to kill any bacteria? Do you wash the spatula between the flip and the removal of the burger from the grill?
To transfer the cooked meat to a clean plate, you should be using a clean spatula that has not touched the raw meat. When you are cooking, you can re-use the spatula from raw to almost done. The reason for this is because the amount of bacteria that will remain on the spatula is very small, and will cook very quickly as you continue to expose the meat to heat.
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theplatypus wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
Grills, raw meat, spatulas:
The burger cooks on the grill. The spatula is used to flip the burger, thereby contaminating the spatula with raw meat. Minutes later, the meat is flipped again; the spatula remains contaminated.
In the end, the spatula is used to remove the cooked burger from the grill, potentially contaminating the burger with raw meat.
What to do? Do you leave the spatula on the grill for a while to kill any bacteria? Do you wash the spatula between the flip and the removal of the burger from the grill?
To transfer the cooked meat to a clean plate, you should be using a clean spatula that has not touched the raw meat. When you are cooking, you can re-use the spatula from raw to almost done. The reason for this is because the amount of bacteria that will remain on the spatula is very small, and will cook very quickly as you continue to expose the meat to heat.
This has been my approach but it was that last step. Obviously I didn't contaminate my food -- I typically do exactly as you've suggested here, but last night was thinking "There's got to be a better way!"
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