/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>10862304
If you weren’t retarded you would realize McD’s burgers are quite salty and not very substantial so they dry out very fast preventing heavy mold growth and decomposition.

>>10862316
>McD’s burgers are quite salty and not very substantial
never eaten one so how would i know that?

>>10862348
a quick google of why mcdonald’s burgers don’t decompose would give you the answer without making this thread.
in closing, fr*ck off

>>10862348
> Never eaten one.
Well fuck me, I must've missed that in the op. Thank God you laid out basic information so noone had to assume anything.

>current bid is $37

>>10862304
OMG that is disgusting!!! Thanks for the heads up, Sharon. I never take my kids to McDonald's. Hope Tom and the kids are doing well xoxo

AMERICANS!!!!!!!

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>>10863637
>mug gogagola

>>10862304
What a fucking stupid thread

>>10863642
Welcome to /ck/

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>>10863641
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>>10863656

>a fruit consisting of almost exclusively water, that grows on the ground
>food that was heated, is salted and was handled in a hygienic environment

>one starts to rot away
>the other drys out

In other news: water is wet
This applies twofold, because it is indeed always water, that is the key factor in rotting/molding
Drying is the oldest method of preserving food
If the Watermelon was dryed faster/properly it would also last as long as the dry burger

>>10863663
A 2007 meme... Your summerfag is showing anon

>>10863637
if this is the future then that's fucking awesome
would be so much more convenient considering i just sit at my computer for 20+ hours at a time anyways

>>10863742
if he has a 2007 meme that means he's probably older than you, insecure zoomer faggot

>>10863970
anon clearly used google image search for a shitty mcdonalds meme, and the fact that I can identify an ancient meme qualifies me as an old fag, you retard.

The fact you're using zoomer instantly identifies you as a newfag. what's next a shrek cringe snapshot?

>>10863991
think again bitch
*braaaaaap*

>>10863991
>2007
>oldfag

Pick one

>>10863671
maybe lay of the salt a little there anon

i think you've been eating to much of it, i can taste it in your post

>>10863991
Kek look how mad this kid is

Why am I unhappy that my burger keeps again?
Are these threads made by one of those vegans who think that the human digestive tract starts with bacterial decomposition?

>>10863671
only a burger would try to defend food so full of chemicals that it is unchanged over 1/3 of a year of sitting out

>>10864159
>presenting facts
>FAT FUCK DEFENDING HIS FATTY FOOD
kill yourself

>>10864165
>water makes things rot
>presenting facts

you know fuck all about anything faggot. a burger has moisture in it, fries have moisture in them, bread has moisture in it. yes, the fruit will rot faster, but a burger should definitely start to decompose within a couple days if not refrigerated.

>>10862304
As a boomer this scares and confuses me, I'll post this on my Facebook.

/thread

>>10863535
>leaf on the french fry bag
>American
???????????????

>>10864173
you notice how the McDonald’s burgers that don’t rot are incredibly thin and filled with salt and are always just a standard hamburger or cheeseburger? That makes them dry out before they rot.

If you leave out something bigger with more content like a Big Mac it will absolutely rot. Stop being an idiot.

A friend of mine in 2011 dropped a mcdouble or whatever under the porch of his apartment at the time. Last he checked was 2016 and it was still there perfectly preserved.
I have no proof.

>>10864228
I'm sure there's no proof you have friends either.

>>10862304
>This is an ORIGINAL, plain McDonald's Cheeseburger and Fries MADE & PURCHASED JUNE 7, 2012
>ORIGINAL OWNER - Never eaten.

>>10864219
you go make a salty thin burger yourself and leave it for 130 days then. see how it fares.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f4tFzboDfI

>>10864173
It's really nice of you to be so concerned for us ignorant Americans, but I'm pretty sure you don't really know what you're talking about.

>>10862304
By this argument, the evil plastic cheese is the healthiest part of the burger because it's discolored and looks fucking terrible.

>>10864258
well im not a microbiologist if thats what you mean, but ive seen plenty of food rot. food should not last 130 days and be totally fine

>>10864269
>I can confirm that food rots from having seen food rotting. This has not rotted. Thus, this is not food.
It's really reassuring to see that your superior European education omitted sample bias, causation/correlation errors, the importance of investigation, and also your own history.
Tell me, conscientious conspiracy man, have you ever heard of salt pork?

>>10864269
You realize that not everything rots by immediately losing its original form and returning to dust, right? Particularly things with fats and refined carbohydrates to keep them glued in their original shape.
Who am I kidding, of course you don't.

>>10864304
not to mention it also omitted physics and food prep

>>10864304
>implying i was saying that my conclusion is entirely based on my personal experiences

food rotting is not some magical science, its very simple.

salt as a preservative is used in large quantities, much more than you get in a ready-to-eat burger.

>>10864269
i doubt anyone called it totally fine. but hamburgers don't decompose much, home made, store bought, or fast food.

>>10864245
FOR SALE
CHEESE BURGER
NEVER EATEN

>>10864339
well id certainly like to see some proof of that

>>10864340
I get that reference

>>10864159
>180 days
>1/3 of a year

So how does jerky last so long? Must be the chemicals.

>>10864449
was going off a different image that said 137

>>10864354
http://www.themirrorpost.com/2016/06/the-burger-lab-revisiting-myth-of-12.html

You wont BELIEVE how old this meat is!!!!

>>10864159
Please name one (1) kind of food that is not 100% chemical.
Last time I checked they were all made out of different kind of chemicals...like, you know, anything you can touch for example.
So please refrain from further verbal littering before you atleast know the very basics of what you condemn.

>>10864498
Intentionally ultra preserved food is a bit different from a maccas burger.

>>10864529
That sausage has most likely been preserved that way because people like how it tastes, humans are not forced to preserve anymore to survive.
So how is it any different from what fast food companies do?

>>10864529
Whether its intentional or not, both are preserved, mostly through salt

>>10864513
>they were all made out of different kind of chemicals...like, you know, anything you can touch for example.

Given that knowledge, isn't it obvious to even the most casual of observers that "chemicals" isn't meant in the pedantic literal sense but rather implies unnatural, artificial, or unexpected chemicals?

When someone mentions "organic food" do you get triggered and reply:
>but but all foods contain carbon therefore they are all organic?

When someone uses the term "bad ass" do you understand the slang meaning, or do you think they are talking about a misbehaving donkey?

>>10864544
>So how is it any different from what fast food companies do?

It doesn't have the same incredibly low standards for ingredients. It's made to taste as good as possible, period. Whereas fast food is made to appeal to the largest possible market ( lowest-common-denominator) while using the cheapest possible ingredients and the simplest possible preparation by uncaring, unskilled, workers.

>>10864607
>Whether its intentional or not, both are preserved, mostly through salt
the difference is one is designed to taste as good as possible whereas the other is designed to be safe whilst being made from the cheapest possible meat and reheated by an idiot.

>>10864669
They're both designed for that ya dunce

>>10864675
I dunno about you, but the chorizo, salame, and other cured sausages I buy aren't made with shit-tier meat, and they aren't reheated by a half-retarded, half-stoned teenager who can't follow directions.

>>10864706
The practice was started simply to make meat last longer with minimal preparation after curing

>>10864709
Yes. but what does that have to do with the current incarnation of the foods we are discussing?

Nobody is doubting the origins of using salt to preserve food, but that's not what we're talking about here.

Hell, the traditional methods of curing sausage are the antithesis of industrial fast food. The former relies on a high degree of skill/experience, careful selection of ingredients, and long, slow, methodic curing. Fast food is about using industrial processes to make food as quickly as possible with no skill in the equation at all. While they both might contain salt, they're polar opposites.

It's like comparing a hand-built race car with a cheap factory econobox because "they both have tires".

>>10864706
>that pic
This is far too fucking relatable.
Why the fuck can't people in service jobs do this extremely basic calculation in their head or even just punch the 20.60 into the damn register?
Do the schools not teach kids to do numbers in their head anymore?

The number of times I've received a look that said "why is this retard giving me a 20 and a 2 for a 17-buck bill when the 20 would suffice?" and then had the 2 pushed back at me like it was a goddamn dogturd. Fuck!

>>10864732
The amount of skill and engineering it takes to make millions of burgers a day consistently, identically, and safe for consumption is a lot of work.
You're like the people who shit on Budweiser with no real understanding how much work goes into making that mass amount of beer at the exact same level for years and years

>>10862394
What letter was censored? Is there some new Unicode so vulgar fucking 4chan censors it? What does it mean?

>>10864748
Nobody denies that it takes a ton of work. The problem is that the amount of work involved is moot when you are working with shit-teir ingredients.

I'd much rather have inconistent burgers that taste good rather than give up quality for muh consistency. I think industrial fast food is one of the great ironies of the developed world. Think about all the tech which goes into it and yet the product sucks. 3rd-world style street hawkers provide much better food despite a major tech disadvantage, and that's sad as hell.

>>10864776
I'm not denying it sucks, but it still is a miraculous feat of human ingenuity, much like the sausage I posted.

>>10863641
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>>10863656
is there any actual, scientific reason why this is bad?

>>10863637
>>10863633
Really makes you think

>>10862304
eat it and find out

>>10864814
Rats grown in an sterile environment develop mental illnesses, the chemicals in a burguer kill gut bacteria, unite the dots, unless you mean """"""""scientific"""""""""" a marketeer told me it was good """""""""""science"""""""""" then there isn't much.

>>10864814
of course there is but why in fuck's name would you look for it here?
also, it's already been explained but you're just too much of a brainlet to even read the goddamn thread

>>10864814
No, this is just food drying out before mold/bacteria can colonize.

>>10864742
is it 1827? who uses cash anymore?
do you have a high wheel bike and mustache wax as well?

>>10864976
>>10864971
I live in Colorado, a very arid place. Apples and many other fruits do not rot or grow mold if they are left out, instead they shrivel and dry (especially in winter). This happens even with apples that have been cut open or are partially eaten. It’s not spooky chemicals.

>>10865065
>american
You disgust me pig.

>food dries out so no bacteria can grow
>this os somehow considered bad

People are shocked by this are probably scared dihydrogen monoxide

>>10865065
ofc it isn't anon, but that line of thinking conflicts with some people's confirmation bias
if they want to act superior and shit on others for eating food x over food y, they'll see whatever they want to see, even if it's in a burger that hasn't rotted away
which is of course not to say that mcburgers are the most nutritious source of food, but anyway

>>10862304
>idiots getting surprised that food can be preserved
>''hurr is this even food????''
I am so sick of these fucking boomers. Every single day there is another boomer being surprised that some food item lasted more than a week.
Food doesn't magically expire and go bad just because it feels like it. Food goes bad because of the bacteria and fungi that grow on it. If they're not growing on it, then it's not going to go bad in the same way your moldy bread does.

If you rubbed some fungi on that burger, it would probably become a moldy piece of shit within a week.

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>>10865079
>>10865016
to add, I think the more interesting part is to figure out/understand why something that's dry is less likely to form mold
which I haven't looked up yet and dunno off the top of my head

>>10865068
AMERIGAAAANS!!!!!!

>>10865104
That will show them, cletus, ahyuk, ahyuk.

>>10865095
Mold needs moisture to live, like every living organism. If there isn't any in the food then it's going to have a hard time breaking through and digesting the food and a harder time surviving in it.

>>10864758
Obviously "frick" you wee weirdo.

>>10864758
He clearly intended to omit the "i" from "fr*ck" because he's a gentleman

I want to eat that burger. The fries don't look too bad either.

Iirc there's an experiment with these two burgers. One is fresh and one is mcdicks. The two is separated.
After days passed the fresh burgers gets moldy, and attracts flies, while mcdick's only shrivels.
However when the two are placed side by side, the mold transfers to the mcdicks' too.

>>10862394

>implying people who go to 4chan unironically to be contrarian shitposting retards are going to go through the effort of asking google for the answer to their retarded question

You're delusional.

>>10865055

>implying going to the worlds fair back in the 1800's wouldn't be the sickest shit ever

>>10865999
checked and yes it would

I keep seeing people remarking that this food can't be healthy because of the fact that it doesn't appear to have changed even after 6 years.

What's the logic behind that train of thought? It makes no sense. If you kept a tree alive for six years and then ate some of its fruit, you wouldn't assume it's bad for you because of how old it is. I recognize that they wouldn't be old for the same reason, but since when is how old something is an indicator of how healthy it is?

The fact that it looks the same today as it did six years ago, to me, would indicate the opposite. This is probably safer to eat because the ingredients aren't as volatile or that perhaps I can absorb the properties that give this food longevity. Yes, that logic is also flawed, but why make one leap if you're not going to make the other?

>>10866361
You really need to step out of the basement occasionally.

I knew a guy that kept plain McD's cheese burger in his glove box. No bullshit.
If he got stuck in parking-lot style traffic and was hungry he would eat one.
The guy wasn't even fat but college, alcohol and a fulltime job all at once can make a man do crazy things.

>>10867405
hur hurr hurrr.
His argument is retarded as shit. Why strawman with the "basement dweller shit"?

>>10863054
underrated post

>>10863054
too real

>>10864254
>I don't know how salted meat was preserved in antiquity