Starchy water sitting around is a breading ground for bacteria. Don’t do that.
That water is brine, if you do it right. Salt is a good preservative. I’ve tested it with up to 2 reuses.
Also, dishwashers don’t clean with salt water. They use the salt to reset their internal water softener.
Not sure why you thought I thought dishwashers clean with salt water. The manual’s advice was to mitigate salt grains that did not get into the salt reservoir that would sit on the stainless steel potentially for days.
rImITywR@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Brine is the exact condition that life needs/thrives in. “About as salty as the ocean” is really good at supporting microbial growth. Source
plantteacher@mander.xyz 4 months ago
i get 403 forbidden w/that link. And archive.org chokes on it too for some reason.
stom@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Life started in the ocean, so logically this makes no sense.
plantteacher@mander.xyz 4 months ago
Actually that logic is broken. A preservative need not make life impossible for all organisms. Hops preserve beer to some extent by making life hard for some unwanted organisms. But hops do not kill everything (of course, because you intend to drink the beer). But as I said in my correction, salt works as a preservative through a drying effect, which I did not previously realize.