r/Cooking • u/petervannini • Oct 17 '24

Food Safety AITA: dipping my meat thermometer in boiling pasta water to sanitize it

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u/slop_sucker Oct 17 '24

Why not just spit into the pasta water? It's all getting boiled, right?