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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My MIL mixes meatballs, meatloaf, and bread dough with her hands and wears several rings while doing it.  It grosses me out.  I guess the bacteria gets cooked off.  I’ve never been sick.  Also keeps cooked stews and pots of rice on the stove (burner off) all day long. Also gross to me.  She isn’t American though.  I think a lot of her habits that I consider unhygienic are cultural [/quote]

The Germans tend to think store and restaurant bought foods are subpar.
I'll bet your MIL washes her hands often while cooking, and probably washes dishes by hand so her hands and rings are probably clean.
Cooked stews and rice on stove with the lid on is OK. Foods should cool before putting in fridge as it is bad for the appliance.

Before refrigerators and factory food, people made stuff with their hands. And vacuum sealed pickling jars and pots using a ring of water with a lid over it to prevent air passage. Also stored their foods underground where it was cooler in summer. 
[b]Somehow humanity managed to get on without appliances for most of human history.[/b][/quote]
People also used to die younger and had more diseases in general.

I mean, there is probably a happy medium, but let's not pretend that health hasn't improved over time through things like food hygiene.[/quote]

Well, yeah, people died younger and had diseases. 
But not from eating food.
Health has improved from hygiene in general. 
Not specifically from food hygiene.

Most shelf stable foods in our giant supermarkets are products of military food science. They produced a "bread like product", as described in their internal literature. 20 minutes from raw dough to bagging. It became marketed as Wonderbread.
I'd rather have freshly baked bread by human hands and I don't mind it sitting out for a day.[/quote]

No. People were often sick from poor food hygiene in the past, which led to stricter food regulation. Have you heard of The Jungle?! Typhoid Mary?!

I also prefer everything homemade. We can do both now— make our own food and employ our knowledge of food safety and hygiene, which is fairly recent. [/quote]

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