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Chiropteran

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I've been eating carrots with ranch dip, and trying to figure out what the actual risk is of double dipping.

First of all, when you bite a chip or a vegetable or whatever, it's not like you stick the whole thing in your mouth- only the part that is bitten off is in your mouth.

Second, when you do dip the chip or vegetable into the dip, the dip covers the area and sticks to the chip, covering the part of the food that may have saliva or germs on it. It's not you drop the chip into the dip and mix it in, it's like spraying a layer onto it. At no point does the stuff on the veggi mix directly with the dip that is remaining in the bowl.

So what is the issue?
 
What if someone has aids, just bit his tongue and it's now bleeding, proceeds to double dip a carrot right before you do?
 
Originally posted by: Chiropteran
I've been eating carrots with ranch dip, and trying to figure out what the actual risk is of double dipping.
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You risk me spitting in your drink when you're not looking.

 
Originally posted by: KLin
What if someone has aids, just bit his tongue and it's now bleeding, proceeds to double dip a carrot right before you do?
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Well see, he could drip blood into the dip without ever double dipping. The double dipping here isn't at fault, the person with aids is. The real lesson is never eat a dip with anyone with aids who bite's their tongue and lets it drip into the dip.


Originally posted by: Ns1
they did a test on food detectives and it really was that bad.
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I think it would have to depend on the dip. The ranch dip i am eating now sticks to the food like a paste, it's literally impossible to mix anything on the food into the dip because of the viscosity of it.
 
What about dipping, taking a bite, then turning the chip/carrot/whatever around and dipping the opposite end? Is it okay or is it still considered bad?
 
Originally posted by: Chiropteran
I've been eating carrots with ranch dip, and trying to figure out what the actual risk is of double dipping.

First of all, when you bite a chip or a vegetable or whatever, it's not like you stick the whole thing in your mouth- only the part that is bitten off is in your mouth.

Second, when you do dip the chip or vegetable into the dip, the dip covers the area and sticks to the chip, covering the part of the food that may have saliva or germs on it. It's not you drop the chip into the dip and mix it in, it's like spraying a layer onto it. At no point does the stuff on the veggi mix directly with the dip that is remaining in the bowl.

So what is the issue?
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Double dipping. You know the drill. You?re at a party and there are chips and dip. You take a chip, put it in the dip and take a bite. So now you?re left with half a chip and no more dip. Back in it goes. I definitely don?t do this (I?m a little funny when it comes to germs to begin with, ask Nicholas), but forget us ? you need to be more wary of who else is doing it, especially if you?re at a function. On the episode, they had a series of dip bowls set up, each one for a different piece of the experiment. One was just one person putting the chip in, no double dipping. The next bowl was one person double dipping. And the last one ? well, it was a party in a bowl. On the one person double dipping bowl, there was tens of thousands of bacteria present. Now imagine how many there would be at the party bowl. Double blech.
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Food Detectives
 
Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
What about dipping, taking a bite, then turning the chip/carrot/whatever around and dipping the opposite end? Is it okay or is it still considered bad?
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Yes, it's still bad. All you've done is traded the crap in your mouth for the crap on your hands.
 
Originally posted by: jbourne77
Originally posted by: Chiropteran
I've been eating carrots with ranch dip, and trying to figure out what the actual risk is of double dipping.
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You risk me spitting in your drink when you're not looking.
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See that is a totally false analogy.

It's more like I spit in the dip, but I collect all my spit in a small container made of dip and pull it back out of the dip without leaving any of the dip that came into contact with my spit.

The best comparison would be if you used your straw to drink out of my drink. There is saliva on the end of the straw, that will touch the drink as it comes up the straw, but none of it ever goes back into the drink.
 
Woo. Tens of thousands of bacteria. Must be so different from the other ten thousand bacteria on every other surface. I wonder how my immune system will deal with that.
 
Originally posted by: tenshodo13
Woo. Tens of thousands of bacteria. Must be so different from the other ten thousand bacteria on every other surface. I wonder how my immune system will deal with that.
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No shit. Why don't they provide some context? Makes for better TV I guess?

"There were X bacteria in the non-double dipped dish, and X+Y bacteria in the double dipped dish." <---- how it should have been worded.
 
Originally posted by: D1gger

Food Detectives
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From that page:
Boiling water. Every time I put on a pot of water to boil, I always start with warm or hot water, because it boils faster. But after watching an experiment on Food Detectives, I?ll be starting with cold water from now on. It turns out that while the warm/hot water will boil faster, water from your hot water heater can contain impurities (for example, lead), so it?s better for you to start with cold. Go figure.
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That show is overly paranoid. Don't drink water that comes out of the tap hot or warm? What the hell?
 
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