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[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 19 points 9 months ago

Real talk, “pasteurize” is the stupidest most misaligned word that could have possibly been used for the process of sterilizing via heat.

[-] jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 65 points 9 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur

It's named after the inventor of the process though. Heat things to kill bacteria.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 6 points 9 months ago

Oh that makes sense

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 points 9 months ago

Oh that makes sense

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago

It should be "Pasteurize", as it's named after Louis Pasteur. And the specific process he invented dramatically increases the shelf life of milk using very high temperatures for a very short time.... Without changing the milk texture or cooking it very much.

So pasteurization is a process that sterilises did with heat. But I don't think it works on meat.

[-] renrenPDX@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

It works just fine meat. The graph is often presented in the context of sous vide cooking of meats.

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Yes. But that is cooking the meat, as in changing the taste and texture by denaturing proteins.

Pasteurized milk does not get cooked in the same manner.

[-] Francisco@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago
[-] tryptaminev@feddit.de 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Pasteurized products are not sterile.

Sterilization should only be used to describe processes that leave no living microorganisms or fruitable spores behind.

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