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Comment by dekhn

This isn't correct. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/dining/bending-the-rules-....

I used to work in biology labs and even jars of autoclaved media would periodically spontaneously grow cultures; it's effectively impossible to eliminate spores with heat.

Resterilization isn't the only problem - if at any time there is significant bacterial growth, toxins accumulate and are not cleared by sterilization. Combined with spores that periodically reactivate and grow you end up with a far number of articulated risks.

Can you really sit around boiling a stock every 10 minutes for 24 hours? Why would you even do that?

parent dekhn 4 years ago

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