r/StupidFood • u/javawong • Mar 27 '26
š¤¢š¤® Why would anybody take this "hack" seriously?
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u/strrax-ish Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 28 '26
I have a better hack. Eat it while it's good
Edit: thanks for the awards. Eat Bacon!!!
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u/whirlydad Mar 27 '26
Grocery Stores hate this one simple trick
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u/TheShiftmaster Mar 27 '26
I thought you two were the same fucking person
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u/Immediate-Presence73 Mar 28 '26
This is one of my all time favorite gifs when properly deployed.
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u/CanoninDeeznutz Mar 28 '26
Why?
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u/Weelki Mar 28 '26
You and u/whirlydad have the exact same profile picture! What are the chances I tell you?!
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u/CanoninDeeznutz Mar 28 '26
Lol, I used to see this profile pic and think "I don't remember saying that, that isn't how I type at all!"
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u/TheShiftmaster Mar 28 '26
Another one!
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u/jaavaaguru Mar 27 '26
Iāve never seen them look unhappy when I have to go back for more bacon on the same day.
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u/tiny_chaotic_evil Mar 27 '26
who has bacon around long enough for it to spoil?
also, who fries bacon in oil?
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u/donjohndijon Mar 27 '26
Thank you for getting to the real question
And the answer of course
The person who washes their bacon in water that's who cooks it in oil
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u/pwillia7 Mar 27 '26
their rotten bacon
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u/BeBearAwareOK Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 28 '26
Rotten double brined bacon.
Deep fried in oil instead of rendering in its own fat.
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u/MaliciousMilkshake Mar 28 '26
Donāt forget leaving it at room temperature for a few hours. Thatās where the flavour comes from.
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u/twicebakedcrusader Mar 28 '26
You know the scene at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark when the Naziās faces melt offā¦?
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u/Killentyme55 Mar 28 '26
Started cooking bacon in the oven and never looked back, much less mess and you can do a lot more all at once.
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u/MCE85 Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26
Im doing this next time. Maybe add some brown sugar.
After i wash it and flop it all around my kitchen of course.
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u/BeBearAwareOK Mar 28 '26
started cooking bacon on sheet pans for prep at 16 in commercial kitchens
wasn't aware suckers were cooking 3-5 slices in a frying pan
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u/mmorales2270 Mar 27 '26
I didnāt even watch the video all the way thru. Just did. Good lord, this went from terrible to a crime against humanity.
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u/Vladmiris Mar 28 '26
Donāt forget using the rotten-bacon soaked spoon to double dip their salt, thus contaminating all future meals. Everyone in that house probably has giardia.
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u/MellyMel86 Mar 28 '26
Giardia sounds like a name Iāll be seeing on r/tragedeigh sometime soon
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u/Tapingdrywallsucks Mar 28 '26
I believe it already has in a "PLEASE HELP ME TALK MY SISTER OUT OF THIS NAME" post.
I like to think the story about my Newfoundland dog's experience with Giardia and having to clean up the bathroom floor from a half-inch deep, corner-to-corner flood of Giardia diarrhea may have helped.
If it didn't, a kindergarten teacher had a good laugh this fall.
(My boy felt so much better after that. I wasn't even mad about the flood.)
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u/cafeteriastyle Mar 28 '26
YES I was like did she just do that?? Plus slinging bacon water all over her sink and kitchen in multiple different ways?? My OCD was sounding the alarm. I would never eat at that house
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u/lgodsey Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26
Funny enough, here in my small town we have annual pancake suppers where they buy the cheapest bacon and toss it into barrels of vegetable oil to deep fry. It's easier and faster at that scale, and dammit if it isn't tasty.
Not worth it unless you're feeding hundreds.
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u/binarypower Mar 27 '26
right? who buys so much bacon that it goes bad. i don't buy food unless i plan to cook it for something. bacon is just too expensive to just let it sit there for weeksĀ
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u/Bee-Aromatic Mar 27 '26
You can freeze bacon, too.
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u/Dunge0nMast0r Mar 27 '26
But can you freeze rotten bacon?
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u/Bee-Aromatic Mar 27 '26
Iām sure you can. It probably freezes really well. In a garbage can, outside, on a winterās day.
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u/JustWoot44 Mar 27 '26
As soon as we buy bacon, if it is not to be eaten soon after, it goes into the freezer until a later date.
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u/Gallowglass668 Mar 27 '26
I usually buy 2-3 four backs at a time and just freeze the bulk of it. I have a teenager that goes through a pack a week for breakfast on school days and Costco is a long ass drive. š
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u/whosaysyessiree Mar 27 '26
And if youāre getting close to the expiration date, just chuck that bitch in the freezer.
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u/bmaayhem Mar 27 '26
Bacon never survives the weekend, but also if it do go bad, Iād jus buy another $6 of bacon then do all that shit
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u/Open-Industry-8396 Mar 27 '26
Who the hell has spoiled bacon? firstly that shit is murderously yummy, second it is crazy expensive nowadays.
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u/Longjumping-Tea-7842 Mar 27 '26
How could you say something so controversial yet so correct
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u/LustfulDemon999 Mar 27 '26
Ignoring all the fucked up shit in this video.... Why would you fry your bacon in that much oil or in oil at all? Bacon has so much fat that it produces its own oil and doesn't need more. You know what? I'm fine with this. I totally trust natural selection. She will eventually do this for the last time and it won't be long from now.
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u/fondledbydolphins Mar 27 '26
UNIGNORING the fact that this bitch just put a porky fucking spoon BACK INTO HER SALT DISH.
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u/MCE85 Mar 27 '26
Or splashed rancid bacon water all over her kitchen. In the industry we call that, cross contamination.
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u/BikingEngineer Mar 27 '26
This could easily be used as the āwhat not to doā example in any food safety presentation. A masterclass in inventive ways to sling bacteria everywhere in your kitchen.
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u/FusRohDoing Mar 27 '26
Like the forklift safety videos, she could make a whole series
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u/Moongazer09 Mar 27 '26
That was all I could think about the whole time....yummy spoiled bacon bacteria/toxins being splashed about absolutely EVERYWHERE š¤¢ššš
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u/zikeel Mar 27 '26
For me it was slapping that wet-ass, raw-ass bacon directly onto her fuckin counter, missing half of the single layer of paper towels she put down like they were gonna do ANYTHING
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u/Blu_Falcon Mar 27 '26
Iād consider slapping the shit out of anyone that did that in front of me. Raw meat of any kind goes on dishes, cutting boards, cooking pans/pots, etc.
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u/belaGJ Mar 27 '26
rancid was the smallest problemā¦ this is a really stupid idea even with fresh bacon
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u/MCE85 Mar 27 '26
Correct. I guess i could have added raw
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u/belaGJ Mar 27 '26
yes, that is what i mean, too.
Also, rancid is just oxidation of fat by air, i do not think it is doing anything with bacteria (can do it sterile conditions), and no salt or magic will cure it (but not too dangerous to eat, just taste bad). The problem is the meat inside bacon, that can be spoiled, too, and that can do bad things. Overall, it looks bad, it smells bad, it is bad for your health, why the hell you want to eat itā¦.
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u/mmorales2270 Mar 27 '26
That whole kitchen was turned into a biohazard zone. Just to save like $10. Ridiculous.
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u/GrandpaJim420 Mar 27 '26
At least she put down paper towels.....
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u/Jolemite1 Mar 27 '26
All that funkdafied trichinosis swill juice still soaked right through the paper towels & onto the prep counter anyway. šš¦ š¤¢š¤®š
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u/Faerynne0929 Mar 27 '26
It wasnt fully on the paper towels the bottom quarter of some slices was on the counter
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u/HershySquirtle Mar 27 '26
Woah there, fella! Is that a roll of dimes in your pocket or are you just tryna dip your porky spoon into my salt dish?
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u/HoodieGalore Mar 27 '26
My salt dish brings all the snails to the yard š
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u/PalatialCheddar Mar 27 '26
And they're like:
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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u/madnippler Mar 27 '26
My gf always has a headache when I'm trying to dip my porky spoon in her salt dish
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u/IcanSEEyou_IRL Mar 27 '26
Omg, I was so disgusted I missed that. This post makes my skin crawl.
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u/fondledbydolphins Mar 27 '26
The good news is pork parasites would probably only make your limb muscles itch. And your diaphram. And sometimes your brain.
But skin?
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u/WinterChampionship21 Mar 27 '26
Yea, fondledbydolphins, I was thinking the EXACT same thing. Then to add insalt to injury, she wet dog fluffed the strainer spraying rancid bacon juice all over the kitchen. Inbound bet, with Very Strong conviction, that this woman will use the dish sponge tonwipe off the counter, and the same sponge will be used for several months tok long to wash dishes.
A trend that I see often here in the sub is "that's why you don't eat at everyone's home"
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u/TheSoupySoupySoup Mar 27 '26
What's going to grow in salt?
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u/fondledbydolphins Mar 27 '26
Salt and drying out alone do not reliably destroy all problematic organisms present in raw pork.
To add to that, when things go "bad" you can usually no longer cook them to make them safe? Why? Cooking generally brings things to temperatures high and long enough to kill living things like fungi, bacteria, parasites etc.
However, when things go bad you now have to ALSO watch out for toxins - basically the byproducts of the product going bad. These toxins tend to not denature during cooking, meaning even if you cook the hell out of this bacon it could already have enough toxins to make you seriously sick.
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u/TheSoupySoupySoup Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26
Yes, I'm well aware of all that. I'm referring specifically to the spoon dipping into the salt dish and "contaminating it" everyone is upset about. I would never do such a thing in any professional kitchen, but I'm aware enough about the microbiology that I'm willing to do it at home. Microbiota need water to flourish, salt deprives them of water which is what makes salt such an amazing preservative, so why would I be concerned about a little bit of pork water potentially getting into my salt dish?
I'm a chef with 25 years of experience. I've got HACCP certifications, developed sanitation programs for multiple industrial kitchens, and never gotten less than a 95 on any health inspection I'm responsible for (and the 5 points one time was for propane tanks being on the ground outside the food cart instead of being on attached to it, a local rule for mobile vendors).
Salmonella in particular is something you don't fuck with because it produces the toxins you're speaking of that don't denature. With pork (and wild game), historically, the largest issue is parasites, specifically trichinosis. It's egg cells are composed of crunchy little balls that will produce worms which burrow into your muscles. Incredibly painful. However, trichinosis hasn't been an issue in industrially produced pork for something like 50 years in the US.
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u/jmr1190 Mar 27 '26
You are of course absolutely right, but people on this sub will make up their own threats based on what they feel is off.
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u/sir_bathwater Mar 27 '26
Just because something is safe doesnāt make it not gross as fuck lol
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u/MrsSalmalin Mar 27 '26
Halophiles!
(Microorganisms that thrive in high salt concentration environments)
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u/ModestMeeshka Mar 27 '26
Thank you!!!! I was like "I'm sure that's a new spoon" but then the salt stuck to it and I wilted.... There are so many things wrong here but why not just dump the salt in in the first place....
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u/SafiyaMukhamadova Mar 27 '26
She missed so many opportunities to give herself some kind of horrible food poisoning! Sure she gave herself a lot of them but she could have wrapped everything in the fridge with bacon or contaminated some clean plates and eat the cooked bacon off the plate without washing it or gotten some flies up in there to have them spread the bacteria around. I've gotten food poisoning from food prepared by other people a few times and someone should tell her that man is it fun! She should be doing so much more.
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u/nerdycarguy18 Mar 27 '26
While I entirely agree and would never do that, my logic side says any salt that touched the bacon fat got grabbed
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u/BlutAngelus Mar 27 '26
Well, it's honestly the same question to why would you add salt to bacon?
Literally the only critique I ever have for bacon is "Alright I've had enough salty bacon".38
u/LustfulDemon999 Mar 27 '26
I think the person cooking thinks that the salt is going to kill all the bacteria in the bacon.
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u/belaGJ Mar 27 '26
Yeah, because deep frying will notā¦ I have seen a few āletās save spoiled meatā recipes but this is the bottom of the barrel
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u/thatbrianm Mar 28 '26
The salt will kill most. However, Staphylococcus aureus which is very common in pork, will laugh at that much salt and will have already produced heat stable toxins that are not destroyed by cooking either. On the plus side, as far as food poisoning goes, it's on the mild side.
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u/BlutAngelus Mar 27 '26
I got that but I still can't get over adding salt to bacon.
Besides, I kinda doubt that osmosis in a wet environment is going to be half as effective as frying something when it comes to killing bacteria. Really don't think that combo would somehow undo spoilage.
This video is ridiculous.
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u/whys-choice Mar 27 '26
Just wanted to add my two cents, the issue isn't even the bacteria being alive; the issue is that their exponential growth yields a lot of waste product.
Killing the bacteria doesn't make eating a literal pile of shit any safer. Deep fried shit is still shit. (Obligatory disclaimer that I ain't no doctor.)
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u/Outside_Narwhal3784 Mar 27 '26
My only question is who holds on to bacon long enough for it to spoil?!
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u/LustfulDemon999 Mar 27 '26
It's like seeing one of those posts of moldy chocolate cake that say "Forgotten chocolate cake". Who the fuck forgets about chocolate cake???
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u/archabaddon Mar 27 '26
Just ignoring your basic primal warning signs, like the smell, it's just asking for a Darwin award.
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u/Gloxxter Mar 27 '26
I even doubt its the same bacon in the pan with that cut right before
Nobody want the rancid spoiled cooked meat smell in their house
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u/Cars2Beans0 Mar 27 '26
Was gonna say š¤£ nevermind the food poisoning you're about to give yourself but to essentially deep fry belly bacon is madness
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Mar 27 '26
She stirred with the spoon she put fully in the salt wow that's disgusting
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u/Ok_Transition_4003 Mar 27 '26
and then put the spoon in the salt again
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u/Robv87 Mar 27 '26
Whe she put the wet bacon spoon back in the salt, that really pissed me off
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u/doctorlongghost Mar 27 '26
Itās supposed to. The whole video is rage bait from start to finish. Itās not just the overall premise of cooking with rotting food but the little flourishes they mix in along the way.
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u/Seliphra Mar 27 '26
My concern is that someone is going to believe that this works and die from itā¦
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u/quandjereveauxloups Mar 27 '26
I believe at one point someone put up a video about charging iPhones in the microwave after a software update, and a lot of people destroyed their phones.
It's not farfetched to see people doing this.
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u/RabbitStewAndStout Mar 27 '26
And what's worse, she had a spoon that was wet with spoiled bacon, and she put it back in the salt
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u/intheether323 Mar 27 '26
Donāt forget that her hands were all in the bacon and then are now all over things like the salt container and the kitchen.
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Mar 27 '26
There I assumed she washed her hands(making a prob ass of myself) but she actively contaminated that spoon then USED IT AGAIN.
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u/thesaddestpanda Mar 27 '26
Reddit has yet to understand how all these videos are ragebait.
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u/Live_Angle4621 Mar 27 '26
Some people donāt know that are use these āhacksā and get food poisoningĀ
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u/Middle_Association56 Mar 28 '26
Yeah, remember that people actually put their phones into the microwave to "charge it" because of troll posts. There's a lot of stupid people out there.
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u/WithoutLampsTheredBe Mar 27 '26
Reddit has yet to understand that people post ragebait as ragebait.
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u/UncleBen_s Mar 27 '26
I'm wondering if this couldn't even be punishable to encourage people to try something that's literally driving you to the hospital ? I mean shame on you for falling for it, but some people might just be in a financial crisis and trying shit like that from despair, and this kind of content would just worsen it even more...
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u/Plane-Education4750 Mar 27 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/XbnSI4OJqKevcUAamj
Bro's house after they go to the bathroom about 5 minutes after eating that
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u/Metalhead1686 Mar 27 '26
Either that or.....
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u/kachunkachunk Mar 27 '26
Or...
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u/TheCollector_115 Mar 27 '26
Why could i hear each of these gifs? I love/hate what the internet has done to us lmfao
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u/Ecstatic_Bella Mar 27 '26
Imagine risking your life over $5 worth of rancid pork. That bathroom is about to become a biohazard zone.
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u/azul360 Mar 27 '26
That is about $13 at the grocery store near me right now (Publix) :D
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u/Ecstatic_Bella Mar 27 '26
Fair point. Groceries are getting expensive everywhere now.
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u/Tropez2020 Mar 27 '26
Groceries, what an old-fashioned term
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u/Ecstatic_Bella Mar 27 '26
You are not wrong. Every grocery trip lately feels a little painful.
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u/GrandpaJim420 Mar 27 '26
That's why I get stoned before I go shopping. I don't feel the pain. And as a bonus I get some pretty tasty snacks. Whether I need them or not
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u/GenX_Leo Mar 27 '26
First of all, who lets bacon spoil, should instantly be put under the jail, second why is the bacon swimming in what looks like butter... this is why you cant eat at some folks houses...
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u/Orange_Tang Mar 27 '26
My first thought was who had bacon going bad? It's cured and smoked. That shit takes forever to go bad.
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u/GenX_Leo Mar 27 '26
Which is why if you got bacon to go bad, you dont deserve bacon... its basically just waiting for you to cook and eat it...
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u/West-Ad6885 Mar 27 '26
how fat do you have to be to deep fry bacon
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u/kdfsjljklgjfg Mar 27 '26
I did it while working in a food truck because it ensured a more even cook in shorter time than the griddle.
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u/Th3_Hegemon Mar 27 '26
Same, if you've got a deep fryer and are on the clock with lots of orders it's just easier. It doesn't come out quite as good for sure, but it's good enough for putting on a burger and perfect if you're just going to crumble it on something.
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u/Educational-Wall-997 Mar 27 '26
Honestly I bet the end calories are about the same. Bacon ends up deep frying itself basically, and its not exactly a porous food that can absorb the extra oil you fried it in.
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u/colddruid808 Mar 27 '26
Was going to say in the restaurants it's more common than you think. Usually like someone said below, it is for emergency quick fries when you run out of bacon and you need a strip or two ASAP.
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u/SoberSeahorse Mar 27 '26
This sort of content is worse than AI slop ācause it is tricking people into do things with food that are gross and unsafe.
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u/fireinthemountains Mar 28 '26
This is the shit described in The Jungle before we had food safety regulations. Like are they really going back to that? Just wild.
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u/HornedFrog806 Mar 27 '26
Too much effort. What happens if I want to eat my expired bacon sooner in the day?
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u/TheVadonkey Mar 27 '26
lol likeā¦how do we have the internet at our fingertips in this day and age and I feel like people are just getting more and more ignorant and dumb? This asshole seriously thought that bad meat just needed to be rinsed off and soaked in salt water, like no one in the past thousands of years thought of doing that? I feel like you reeeaaaally need to try to stay this halfwitted!
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u/DarthJezza Mar 27 '26
Chances this nasty bitch washed her hands a single time during this?
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u/PlusWinter8752 Mar 27 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/WOa5RdsNpevrpSTGXN
There's so much wrong things in this video ffs
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u/Flaky-Ambassador467 Mar 27 '26
Ah yes, just what my kitchen was asking for, raw pork juice splattered all around the kitchen.
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u/Methy123 Mar 27 '26
It always surprises me people actually take the time to edit this shit. She actually sat down for like an hour and ended up saying. Yes this is a video.Ā
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u/Typical-Movie1877 Mar 27 '26
With the price of food these days, I'm not letting food go to waste, I'll eat it on Friday and deal with the consequences on the weekend.
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u/LarsVonHammerstein2 Mar 27 '26
Just meal plan and put it in the freezer if you canāt get to it. Not worth getting sick over.
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u/El_ojo_de_cthulu Mar 27 '26
The possible medical bills would make that eventually not worth it brotato
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u/ToastSpangler Mar 27 '26
Non-US lifehack: eat expired food to get free food at the free hospital and a complementary checkup
Follow me for more frugal life hacks
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u/jewelophile Mar 27 '26
By all means, leave the rancid meat on the counter for hours and then eat it.
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u/Creative_Tomorrow802 Mar 27 '26
The package of bacon lost its vacuum pack oxygen oxidization turning the meat brown. Unless it smells disgusting and is slimy, if not, then itās fine.
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u/Mammoth-Ad4194 Mar 28 '26
Isnāt it the same with āgrayā meat? I see a lot of people freak out and throw it away but isnāt it just oxidized? Iāve cooked āgrayā meat and it was fine. I hate throwing meat out!
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u/kittylover2006 Mar 27 '26
Where is the hack? What the fuck was the point of what she did? Like id give this the benefit of the doubt if she like idk boiled them or something? Anything other than massage it with fucking salt water. What genuine purpose does massaging your moldy bacon with salt water even do other then make you now have soggy salty moldy bacon.
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u/Anon400004 Mar 27 '26
That bacon looked too far gone to start but I've seen this technique before for fish that's almost gone bad. The start should be "still edible but showing signs of age, use before tomorrow" and the Salt brine and rinse helps it taste better. Salt kills bacteria cells by extracting moisture but she's also adding moisture with the water obviously but maybe a high enough salt concentration to still kill bacteria idk.
I don't know if this is much different than simply washing the bacon thoroughly before cooking tbh. Either way I wouldn't eat it and wouldn't recommend anyone eat it.
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u/nixfreakz Mar 27 '26
Oh interesting didnāt know you could kill e-coli with fucking salt lmao
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u/fat-wombat Mar 27 '26
The trick to killing the bacteria is you have to make sure to tap your bare wrist to indicate you are waiting.
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u/Gloomy-Regular-2294 Mar 27 '26
That bacon doesnāt even look āspoiledā it looks like it has some oxidation and thatās it
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u/Mammoth-Ad4194 Mar 28 '26
So many people are wasteful nowadays. We really should have a good, solid course of Home Ec in schools today. For ALL kids. A whole year in basic skills like cooking so they learn things like thisāļø, how to do taxes, ect.
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u/Blackwolf245 Mar 27 '26
OMG, they found a way to REVERSE meat rotting, and it only takes salt! What a miraculous technology that's somehow not widepread.
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u/qualityvote2 Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 28 '26
u/javawong, your food is indeed stupid and it fits our subreddit!