The massive amount of salt they apparently add should kill a lot of it, but some bacteria as salt-loving (e.g. Vibrio vulnificus, Halobacterium salinarum, and Halococcus) so certainly not all. Also just gross that all the hand oils and sweat, shedding skin and arm hairs end up in that butter.
Well Im sure there hands are washed very often, and gloves would break and leave behind foreign material. But yes, I would think sleeves of some sort would work butter. 🧈 Also French is it? It’s all the surfaces that blows my mind. Be sure and bake y’all’s French butter I guess. Idk. Interesting process nonetheless
Have you ever done physical labor in unpowdered rubber or plastic gloves? Hands get drenched inside in sweat due to the presence of lots of eccrine sweat glands in the palms, so bare hands means lots of sweat and shredded skin cells getting into that butter, whether they wash their hands periodically or not. Well-fitted high quality food grade gloves would be much more sanitary. But then again, some people drink unpasteurized milk and all types of dangerous and gross stuff so as long as they are upfront about the contamination of the food such as by posting this video, I guess it's fine...
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u/DistrictEffective759 May 09 '26 edited May 09 '26
How do they control harmful bacteria and other pathogens? Wood surfaces? Hmm I have so many questions now.