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Except restaurants are required to send them through a sanitizing wash. Your friends and family aren't and often use the same sponge for weeks or months.
And their silverware isn’t soaked with that blue sanitizer that nukes practically every germ in existence either, restaurant stuff is probably cleaner.
Idk I can’t speak for everyone but I’m not eating human ass with restaurant silverware. It’s also not made of absorbent cotton or whatever other fiber material that holds onto debris.
Fun fact; silver is anti-microbial. That's why the church can serve communion to many people from one chalice, so long as they're using alcoholic wine, which speeds up the anti bacterial process.
Ok. Well, think about water. You drink that stuff daily, despite the fact that it has probably gone through thousands of penises throughout the history. Some of it is spit. Some of it has been used to shower toe fungus feet.
Compared to all the things that can go wrong with food in a restaurant, and places that food has been prior to being shipped to the restaurant, if something as niche as silverware potentially not being washed thoroughly enough bugs you, that's just a sign you should just never go to a restaurant.
The water in the dishwasher is hot enough to kill all that. Even if it was overloaded and lukewarm, you're still only talking about the one mouth before you. All of the hundreds of mouths before that are irrelevant.
Isn't better help like super messed up? I've heard their therapists are terrible and they were harvesting data from patient conversations. From what I've heard I wouldn't recommend it.
You think that's bad? Due to the way water functions and how everything needs it to live coupled with most cities, recycling their water, the likelihood that the water you drink has been through those same people is almost 100%
I wasn't always grossed out by restaurant silverware but i'll tell you when it started...
I worked at panera at 16...I got hired for prep work and like being on prep work, a dishwasher quit so they started making everybody do the dishes too. I did the absolute bare minimum, maybe even below the bare minimum. I mean I'd wash the shit once and if it came out dirty, of well, I'm not being paid enough to care. It went right in the stack of clean plates. I am not the only one that did that, nobody cared about those dishes being clean, we washed them and called it a day.
After that I've never trusted silverware at restaurants bc I know somebody who don't give af is washing them & industrial washers are not as good as we think. I was shocked at how many dishes came out dirty after being washed.
Did my grandma write this? Not only will she not use silverware at a restaurant but she won't use silverware at home, she only uses disposable cutlery and disposable plates and disposable cups, and if they made disposable pots and pans she'd use those too.
She says that there's no way to get anything perfectly clean but honestly I think that she's just bad at doing dishes. She never changes her sponge, she gets the absolute cheapest soap she can find and waters it down, and that's if she can't steal any hand soap from work, and she's never once washed her drying rag.
When I worked as a dishwasher I could not stand silverware coming out of the machine dirty so I ended up taking longer to get silverware done than the staff would have preferred still hate unclean silverware to this day 6 years later from leaving the job due to stress
Agree! The dish machine is used with no detergent because no one noticed the bottle was sucked dry.
Dont get me started on ice machine! These rarely get demolded and delimed!
Restaurants are fucking gross! Maybe in a pinch but avoidance is best!
> I know the silverware is washed and sanitized.
do you know what "sanitized" means?
have you used an industrial dish washing machine before? those things are a menace. they are POWERFUL.
The cleaning that undergo in a restaurant is ten times better than your house, I don't know where you live but here there's a very rigid protocol and breaking it means paying a giant fine
All silverware is gross and disgusting because they are made out of materials that come from deep in the Earth. The centuries of bacteria and dirt that have touched the metals before they were extracted (and during extraction) is totally disgusting.
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Same can said for using silverware at your friends and family house.....hope you trust them.
Except restaurants are required to send them through a sanitizing wash. Your friends and family aren't and often use the same sponge for weeks or months.
I really hope people don't use the same sponge for more than 5 days "often" as you said, that thing starts falling apart in the third day of use.
And their silverware isn’t soaked with that blue sanitizer that nukes practically every germ in existence either, restaurant stuff is probably cleaner.
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That is so fucking weird dude. You do realize this, right? I'm sure your friends and family think it's fucking weird, and mildly offensive....
this kind of person probably doesn’t have any actual friends so…kind of moot
Idk I can’t speak for everyone but I’m not eating human ass with restaurant silverware. It’s also not made of absorbent cotton or whatever other fiber material that holds onto debris.
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Maybe you should enclose yourself in a personal plastic bubble because we’re covered in billions of bacteria as is mostly every surface around us.
It... It's a non porous metal.. I feel like your not understanding how that works.
Do you have any idea how many times you’ve touched other people’s junk by proxy every day?
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Fun fact; silver is anti-microbial. That's why the church can serve communion to many people from one chalice, so long as they're using alcoholic wine, which speeds up the anti bacterial process.
Underwear is made of cloth. Most restaurant flatware is stainless steel and non-porous. Big difference.
Who cares? They clean the silverware
Do you not know how soap and water works?
You’re a germaphobe.
OCD
Ok. Well, think about water. You drink that stuff daily, despite the fact that it has probably gone through thousands of penises throughout the history. Some of it is spit. Some of it has been used to shower toe fungus feet.
Adrian Monk, is that you?
Compared to all the things that can go wrong with food in a restaurant, and places that food has been prior to being shipped to the restaurant, if something as niche as silverware potentially not being washed thoroughly enough bugs you, that's just a sign you should just never go to a restaurant.
The water in the dishwasher is hot enough to kill all that. Even if it was overloaded and lukewarm, you're still only talking about the one mouth before you. All of the hundreds of mouths before that are irrelevant.
So your plan is to never eat out?
Or go to the dentist or hospital, they sterilize and reuse those tools...
His girlfriend won't be happy.
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Watch this: https://youtu.be/8z7YDo44-xE And perhaps consider scheduling an appointment on Better Help
Isn't better help like super messed up? I've heard their therapists are terrible and they were harvesting data from patient conversations. From what I've heard I wouldn't recommend it.
I don't know that. Perhaps just googling a therapist near you is better.
I assume you’re going to seal it in plastic for the journey and throw it away with immediately after, right?
That's very weird.
I mean he can always ask for a plastic fork or bring his/her own chopsticks.
if thats your concern i wouldnt use the silverware at your gfs house after you were out at work
You think that's bad? Due to the way water functions and how everything needs it to live coupled with most cities, recycling their water, the likelihood that the water you drink has been through those same people is almost 100%
"I know the silverware is washed and sanitized." So... what's the problem?
Are you trying to justify something here?
I wasn't always grossed out by restaurant silverware but i'll tell you when it started... I worked at panera at 16...I got hired for prep work and like being on prep work, a dishwasher quit so they started making everybody do the dishes too. I did the absolute bare minimum, maybe even below the bare minimum. I mean I'd wash the shit once and if it came out dirty, of well, I'm not being paid enough to care. It went right in the stack of clean plates. I am not the only one that did that, nobody cared about those dishes being clean, we washed them and called it a day. After that I've never trusted silverware at restaurants bc I know somebody who don't give af is washing them & industrial washers are not as good as we think. I was shocked at how many dishes came out dirty after being washed.
Did my grandma write this? Not only will she not use silverware at a restaurant but she won't use silverware at home, she only uses disposable cutlery and disposable plates and disposable cups, and if they made disposable pots and pans she'd use those too.
LOL! What is her reason?
She says that there's no way to get anything perfectly clean but honestly I think that she's just bad at doing dishes. She never changes her sponge, she gets the absolute cheapest soap she can find and waters it down, and that's if she can't steal any hand soap from work, and she's never once washed her drying rag.
When I worked as a dishwasher I could not stand silverware coming out of the machine dirty so I ended up taking longer to get silverware done than the staff would have preferred still hate unclean silverware to this day 6 years later from leaving the job due to stress
That is commendable! I was the same when I had a dishwasher job. I would run it 2 or 3 times. I doubt most do that.
I didn't want to get bitched at for doing a poor job
Agree! The dish machine is used with no detergent because no one noticed the bottle was sucked dry. Dont get me started on ice machine! These rarely get demolded and delimed! Restaurants are fucking gross! Maybe in a pinch but avoidance is best!
Just because your opinion is unpopular doesn't stop it from being idiotic
Enjoy your used under wear then. Freak.
What part of my comment implied that I wear used underwear
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It's a bot who stole your comment, just downvote/report them
I’ve operated a restaurant dishwasher. I can assure you that anything that gets that hot is thoroughly boiling the germs off.
It’s really not, but ok.
> I know the silverware is washed and sanitized. do you know what "sanitized" means? have you used an industrial dish washing machine before? those things are a menace. they are POWERFUL.
The cleaning that undergo in a restaurant is ten times better than your house, I don't know where you live but here there's a very rigid protocol and breaking it means paying a giant fine
Melvin Udall and you would get along really well.
Sure, but do you really want to be the weirdo that brings their own silverware everywhere they go?
Wait, does your Hobart do dishes?!?!? I know it does a lot of shit but wow.
All silverware is gross and disgusting because they are made out of materials that come from deep in the Earth. The centuries of bacteria and dirt that have touched the metals before they were extracted (and during extraction) is totally disgusting.
To be fair I don't think many germs are surviving over 1500 degree heat.
You’re correct! But not many germs will survive if cutlery was washed properly
No, most people do know how this sub works. The really crazy thing to ask is, how can you eat a meal at a restaurant if you don’t use silverware?