What is you risk tolerance level for unsanitary summer BBQs?

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A Practical Guide to Sous Vide Cooking

If you click the above and scroll down quite a bit to the bottom of Appendix A, you get to the equations used to determine pasteurization time for what multiple of bacteria reduction at what meat thickness. Appendix C, is where you'll find the actual government pasteurization tables for various meats. Table C.1 lists the pasteurization time for beef, pork, and lamb as 0 seconds at just 158°F. For chicken, pasteurization time is 0 seconds at 166°F.
So unless your meat is EXTREMELY rare, transmission of bacteria from grill or utensils to cooked meat is impossible, as the cooked meat itself (let alone the environment into which you're shoving said utensil) immediately (zero seconds says the FDA) kills any bacteria that would be transferred.
Again, the lettuce on your burger is WAY WAY more likely to get you sick (unless you heat it up to >160°). So is surfing HH on your phone while taking a shit, and we all do that.

I'm starting to think that grilling is just too dangerous for you guysms, and you should probably just give me your grills. For safety.

It's not an issue of internal meat temps here with the contaminated spatula or tongs. If you get raw meat contamination on the spatula and then use that thing to then remove a done burger I don't know if the meat surface temp at the time is enough to kill the bacteria. It seems some analogous to putting the cooked meat back onto a dirty tray.

The meat surface temp will be the exact same temperature as the grill at the time of meat removal. It would be impossible for it to be otherwise. Internal temps are lower, hence the mention, but surface temp is surface temp = grill temp. Unless you've got your grill turned down to below 160°, your meat will instantly sanitize your utensil. A fraction of a second at 160 does the job. E. Coli dies at 140°. The water coming out of my tap can damned near kill E. Coli.

 

[CFetters_Nacho_Lover]

everyone forgot to mention the clean spatula that no one saw the dog lick or the guys that haven't clean off the grilling surface for the past two years.
I burn my grill clean, scrub it, spray it (I found a food grade spray cleaner), all that crap but not in any particular order. I do what is required. I also try to scrape off the surfaces before stuff gets baked on.

I clean the grill once a year. Why lose all that flavor?
Mrs Nacho loves to grill and for a year or so, she actually did all the grilling. I was like go for it, I’m gonna drink a beer and surf HH. She claimed the title of grill master.
We then have a big party and at the last minute, shoves the burger patties at me and asks to run the grill. I told her she had anointed herself the grill master and I was getting in the pool.

And that is how I used passive aggressiveness to reclaim the grill.

How’s that last two years without sex been working out?

My ability to masturbate anytime, anywhere has never been better.

 

[dflea]

Don't eat warm potato salad - or macaroni salad. That shit will fuck you up.