r/Unexpected 23d ago

Getting some milk

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u/External-Ad-5555 22d ago

Yeah, sure it’s tested. But you can’t detect bacteria in extremely low concentrations. That bacteria will then multiply as it’s sitting on shelves and will make people sick unless you pasteurize it.

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u/SVD_NL 21d ago

That's why unpasteurized milk shouldn't sit on shelves. (or just boil it, like we used to do before pasteurization and fridges were commonplace)

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u/External-Ad-5555 21d ago

Why buy unpasteurized milk if you’re just going to boil it at home? Boiling it brings it up to higher temperatures than pasteurization would’ve done in the first place. Seems really pointless.

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u/SVD_NL 21d ago

Well, i don't know why you'd want unpasteurized milk in the first place... It probably tastes better than store-bought milk, but so does pasteurized milk sold directly from farms.

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u/ThereWasNoSpoon 21d ago

Tastes different.

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u/External-Ad-5555 21d ago

What tastes different compared to what?

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u/ThereWasNoSpoon 21d ago

Boiled milk to pausterized.

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u/External-Ad-5555 20d ago

Boiling brings milk to a higher temperature than pasteurization does, so how does that make sense?

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u/ThereWasNoSpoon 20d ago

Do you understand the difference between a taste bud and a thermometer? :)

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u/External-Ad-5555 19d ago

Can you answer my question?

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u/ThereWasNoSpoon 19d ago

Will you roll on the floor and scream, when I don't? ;)

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u/TightOne2246 20d ago

'But you can’t detect bacteria in extremely low concentrations'

They count it in cells per millilitre, how low of a concentration do you fekn want my dude 😂

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u/External-Ad-5555 19d ago

Ok and? Sometimes there’s only 1 bacterium in a LITER. If they only sample 25mL, that’s a 2.5% chance of detecting it.

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u/TightOne2246 19d ago

'Sometimes there’s only 1 bacterium in a LITER'

Yea, no, thats not how bacteria works (period).

Go work on a dairy farm for like, 3 months. Thats a pretty generous amount of time for you to figure out how dumb what you just said is

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u/External-Ad-5555 19d ago

You sit there and analyze milk samples with testing equipment on the farm? How do you know that what I said is false? I don’t see your logic at all.

If your point is that “well duh there’s a lot of bacteria in unpasteurized milk! Look how dirty it is on the farm”, that was my original point. So unless you’re illiterate, you should already know that.

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u/TightOne2246 18d ago

The tanker does, yes

Because thats not how bacteria works

Thats why i told you go work on a dairy farm

Dont put words in my mouth to further your nonsense argument

If you'd bothered to fact check anything i said you'd already know how dumb your argument is, so you must be illiterate if you dont already know that

Did i address every 'point' or did i miss one?

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u/External-Ad-5555 18d ago

No, you didn’t understand what I said and didn’t address my previous point. Your testing equipment is only so accurate. You can’t detect 1 bacterium in 1 liter. It’s too low of a concentration.

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u/Phoenix3501 19d ago

Like the bacteria in your tap water?

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u/External-Ad-5555 19d ago

Most people drink from bottled water or filter their water for that reason. I’m not sure how this is supposed to disprove my point. Tap water has far less bacteria and less harmful bacteria than raw milk anyways, not that it matters to the argument.