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I've seen some shit claiming pasteurization is harmful and I just have to ask if the people who believe that know what pasteurization even is, because how the hell does boiling it make it harmful? Shit... If boiling milk makes it toxic, you better stay away from cheese. And a lot of baked goods. Creamy soups. Pasta dishes. Etc.
This is the whole “gluten is poison” (for people not actually intolerant to gluten) all over again. Those people also had no idea that it was just wheat protein.
Not even fully boiling. To quote Wikipedia, because I'm lazy:
The liquid moves in a controlled, continuous flow while subjected to temperatures of 71.5 °C (160 °F) to 74 °C (165 °F), for about 15 to 30 seconds, followed by rapid cooling to between 4 °C (39.2 °F) and 5.5 °C (42 °F).
Literally 30 seconds of "pretty hot". And people are risking serious illness, even death, over some mythical beliefs about how nutrition works.
There is a way. Just mix it with equal parts hard liquor.
I heard bleach works good too.
So you get a liquid that'd roughly 20% alcohol and mostly milk?
Yeah that's not gonna do it.
Try this:
Man, a shot of Vodka at 40% has me questioning my life choices, I cannot imagine taking a shot of this goddamn paint thinner holy shit
Yeah, that's why you mix it with raw milk.
Even if you do 95% everclear (which we don't even have in the EU, we'd fucking kill ourselves with that shit), you'd still only get 47.5% alcohol with the rest being milk, which is not enough to sterilise it.
Like above 42% will kill a lot of stuff in it, but it's not enough to sterilise it.
OK, but pasteurization doesn't sterilize it either. And if you can't get everclear, you probably can't get raw milk. And, OP was making a joke...
Sure man, but I'm a pedant with a shit sense of humour and I like to point out myths that may or may not be actually relevant if it "came down to it." And unlike in the movies where you just spray some whisky on a wound, alcohol isn't a magical get-rid-of-all-chance-of-infection when it's in levels of like <50%.
A lot of people take humor as fact, either by not understanding it as satire or by thinking it's funny because it's true etc. So while a bit of a party pooper, I don't think some light correction is all that harmful.
Very kind of you.
Food safety is communism!