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submitted 1 year ago by oiez@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/food@beehaw.org

You dumped out the water ten minutes ago. The pot is cooled off, and empty. It only had whole eggs in it, still in the shells. Now tell me, do you wash that pot? Get out the sponge and the soap and scrub it like usual? Or do you give it a quick rinse and slam it in the drying rack? No judgement here, only curiosity.

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[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago

I leave the pot on the counter for five days, forgetting its contents were harmless, and then wash the pot.

[-] GiantBasil@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

I will half heartedly wash it with sponge and a tiny bit of soap because I feel guilty if I don't.

[-] aperson@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

A quick rinse'll do'er.

[-] majkeli@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Eggs are filthy. They came out of a chicken’s pooper.

[-] upstream@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

But are usually washed before you get them.

You’ll know filthy unwashed eggs when you see them.

Boiling water also kills bacteria. In fact they get killed long before the water starts boiling (pasteurization).

However, water contains salts and minerals so I always give it a quick scrub and rinse and dry off, but I’m certainly not worried about my pot being unsanitary because I boiled eggs.

[-] ChefTyler1980@geddit.social 9 points 1 year ago

Given how hard our water is, yes.

[-] Nollij@lemmy.fmhy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

I boil with salt and a bit of vinegar in the pot. When I'm done, there is a noticeable white coating on the pot, presumably calcium from the egg shells.

So yes, it gets washed.

[-] Smellmop@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

This is the way

[-] strangerloop@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

Boiled water leaves a residue on the pot, so I always end up halfheartedly washing it

[-] AstralWeekends@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

I do because I live in an area where the water is hard as fuck, and will leave a ring of minerals in my pot if I do not wash it. So regardless of any other factors, I do.

[-] pickles@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago

No washing, the boiling water sterilized anything nefarious on the eggs. I don't wash my cast iron either, just rinse and kill it with fire on the stove.

[-] jonatan83@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Quick rinse unless I forget what I used it for or one of the eggs cracked or something.

[-] Seathru@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Did you wash the poo off the eggs before you started? If so; then, yeah, rinse it out and hang it back up.

[-] sand_head@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

this is why I poo on the eggs after they’re boiled, not before. fewer dishes to clean

[-] overlordette@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

If you're in the US or Canada, they've already been cleaned! :)

[-] Seathru@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Moms is slacking off. Anytime I visit she gives me dozens, but they are always straight outta the chicken.

[-] Illbeinthekapuasuite@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

I'm a lazy fuck, but I'll at least rinse jic.

[-] tim_0475@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Our water is hard so I scrub lightly with a sponge to get the pot shiny again but don't use soap

[-] GiantBasil@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I will half heartedly wash it with sponge and a tiny bit of soap because I feel guilty if I don't.

[-] counselwolf@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

quick rinse for me

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Boiled water, yeah?

Quick rinse and wipe, done!

[-] atlhart@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I have a dishwand that just stays out all the time, so I’d hit it with that. Almost everything either goes in the dishwasher or gets hit with the dishwand. If I cut up something like apples or cucumber I may just give the knife a rinse before it goes back into the block

[-] SplicedBrainwrap@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I live with very hard water, I still just rinse it, but I need to dry with a towel to prevent hard water stains.

[-] reverendsteveii@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

rinse to re-dissolve and dissolved solids that may have come out of solution in the pot

[-] Adramis@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Rinse and dry with a towel only because hard water.

[-] Tordoc@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'll rinse and wipe down the inside, but that doesn't need soap.

[-] GiantBasil@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I will half heartedly wash it with sponge and a tiny bit of soap because I feel guilty if I don't.

[-] Slippery@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Quick wipe down and rinse. No scrub, that's unnecessary. There could be residue and the wipe and rinse takes like 10 seconds.

[-] TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago

Depends on the pot... I have a bunch of cast-iron & carbon-steel pans and most of those would get a hot rinse, and then a wipe with an oily cloth after going back on the element to heat back up & dry off any excess water.

My cheaper saucepans I probably wouldn't bother unless there'd been a mishap and an egg had cracked - but we also have really hard water here so its often a good idea to wash from time to time.

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