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from the if-I-lick-it,-it-belongs-to-me dept.
Food that has been dropped on the floor is usually safe to eat under the so-called "five-second rule", a scientist has said.
Germ expert Professor Anthony Hilton, from Aston University, said that although retrieving these morsels can never be completely without risk, there is little to be concerned about if the food is only there momentarily.
Professor Hilton will be demonstrating how the five-second rule works at The Big Bang Fair – a celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) for young people – which opens on Wednesday at the NEC in Birmingham.
He said: "Eating food that has spent a few moments on the floor can never be entirely risk-free. Obviously, food covered in visible dirt shouldn't be eaten, but as long as it's not obviously contaminated, the science shows that food is unlikely to have picked up harmful bacteria from a few seconds spent on an indoor floor."
(Score: 2) by schad on Monday April 03 2017, @03:43AM (1 child)
Yeah, it seems like years of "bigger and faster" have bred the taste out of poultry just as surely as it did from tomatoes. Your tofu mention is a good one, I think, because tofu is also a largely tasteless protein that absorbs flavors like a sponge. Chicken does great both with big flavors and delicate ones, but not really anything in between.
Corn-fed beef is pretty damn tasteless too. A lot of people prefer the (absence of) taste, though. That makes me think that the blandness of poultry and everything else might actually not be an accident.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday April 03 2017, @08:27AM
Of course, a nice spicy coating, and the skin cooked till it's crispy and all the fat has rendered down, is also delicious. There's a local pub here where one of the bar snacks is crispy chicken skin - lovely!
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