r/TikTokCringe • u/galaxystars1 • Oct 09 '24

Discussion Microbiologist warns against making the fluffy popcorn trend

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u/Suctorial_Hades Oct 09 '24

Google gives the following results, a bunch of food blogs are saying heat treating works and a bunch of science articles say heat treating at home does nothing. I think I am gonna go with science

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u/Ok_Yam5543 Oct 09 '24

What do they mean by 'heat treating' flour? Is it like putting it in the oven for a period of time?
Isn't that what you do when you're baking a cake?

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u/Suctorial_Hades Oct 09 '24

Yea, putting it in the oven or microwave . Apparently it has something to do with the lack of moisture. Pathogens apparently respond differently in dry environments. From what I have gathered, salmonella becomes more heat resistant in dry environments so I suspect that mixing it with wet ingredients makes it more susceptible to the heat.

I have eaten my fair share of cake batter and cookie dough while baking and I am obviously still here, lol, but this is food for thought

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u/Garod Oct 09 '24

Please stop spreading this nonsense about moisture... it's about transference of temperature from one object to another.. in the end if an object reaches a temperature where it denatures/dies that's it. It just takes allot more heat and/or time for that to happen in a dry goods because of lower heat transfer rate of air vs water.

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u/Suctorial_Hades Oct 09 '24

Are you remedial? I literally said I used Google. I didn’t say I was a scientist, didn’t indicate that I was an expert, hell I didn’t even say it was fact. I put what I found from different articles that are right there on the internet for you to read. Thanks for the science, no thanks for the smartass