What is you risk tolerance level for unsanitary summer BBQs?
What is you risk tolerance level for unsanitary summer BBQs? 14 votes
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I require well done burgers, chicken, sausages, etc, with surgical room level sanitation
I don't mind a little pink in a burger, but my chicken and sausages get well done.
What I am fussy about are countertops, utensils and hands. Cross contamination of condiments or flipping/plating cooked meat with the same utensils you handled it with raw kills my appetite instantly. If I see someone bring a tray of raw patties to the grill then set the tray aside to collect them once cooked, I'll try to sneak in and go wash the tray. If I can't I just won't eat them.
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Bloody chicken will make me chunk.
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I can deal with a little pink, but hate raw burgers/chicken and contaminated spatulas and/or tongs
I don't know if I just didn't encounter in earlier in life, but the more we make friends down here and get invited over to various summer BBQ's I've been horrified at the sheer incompetence. Dudes throwing frozen Costco burger on the grill and taking them off with the middle still raw as fuck, doing smash burgers on raw ass meat and not heat treating the spatula afterwards (or getting a new one), putting cooked paddies back in the same tray that the raw ones came out on. It's so fucking nartsy.
Fucking Schumer Burger Man!
I hate trying to tell another man how to run a clean grill, but I've had "volunteer" to help out while they are getting more supplies or taking a piss break. While this is happening I right the shit and get things fixed.
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I can deal with a little pink, but hate raw burgers/chicken and contaminated spatulas and/or tongs
It’s shocking how easy BBQing is and how terrible people are at it
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I can deal with a little pink, but hate raw burgers/chicken and contaminated spatulas and/or tongs
How hard is it flip fucking hamburgers and not contaminate plates and cooking utensils? But so many people fuck it up. I'm baffled.
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I can deal with a little pink, but hate raw burgers/chicken and contaminated spatulas and/or tongs
everyone forgot to mention the clean spatula that no one saw the dog lick or the guys that haven't clean off the grilling surface for the past two years.
I burn my grill clean, scrub it, spray it (I found a food grade spray cleaner), all that crap but not in any particular order. I do what is required. I also try to scrape off the surfaces before stuff gets baked on.
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I can deal with a little pink, but hate raw burgers/chicken and contaminated spatulas and/or tongs
I ate Mabel’s trailer park wings once and didn’t get sick!!
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So you use a metal spatula to shove a piece of meat on a grill, the grill is over 600 degrees according to the thermometer on the lid, you use that same spatula to flip the now 600 degree burger over, then that same spatula to scoop finished burger onto tray. And the theory is that bacteria still on the spatula from initial meat placement is still alive after several encounters with those burgers and that grill?
There's a reason we use a spatula to do that job instead of our hands: It's really fucking hot in a BBQ. Hotter than bacteria can survive. You sanitize the spatula/tongs/skewers every time you stick them in the grill.
The lettuce you rinse in cold water in the sink before putting on your burger is ten times more likely to give you the shits. Your computer keyboard a hundred times more likely.
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I can deal with a little pink, but hate raw burgers/chicken and contaminated spatulas and/or tongs
Hank Hill always had sound BBQ advice…
Three flips on the burger
Every steak is cooked medium rare. If someone wants theirs well done we politely ask them to leave.
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I can deal with a little pink, but hate raw burgers/chicken and contaminated spatulas and/or tongs
alcohol helps to kill nasty stuff
