Okay, so say you’ve got three pizzas, one that you finished last night, one that you finished the (unrefrigerated) leftovers of this morning, and one with water topping…
Yes, I’m aware that the water has been around for eons. However, my backwash has not been around for eons. The question was not about just running some clean water and letting it sit out, it was about running water, drinking some, and leaving that out. Jesus Christ, some of you are touchy.
FTR, I’m not a germophobe. I’ve been drinking the left out water/backwash for years without a second thought. It was the unrefrigerated pizza thread that got me thinking about it. I’ve eaten unrefrigerated pizza too, without any ill effects.
Full disclosure… I work for the company that drains and refills all of the worlds oceans, lakes, ponds, streams, brooks, creeks, and puddles each night. Any water that has been left more than 14 minutes unrefrigerated should be discarded.
Ha. Our cat does that exact same thing. Exact same side of the bed, even.
Moving water is different than still water. Large bodies of water are different than small ones.
I promise you, if you keep non-sterile still water around long enough (especially in the heat- it was really hot where I was doing this), it will eventually get funky. Go leave a glass in a cabinet, and loosely cover it with a plate or something. Come back in a month. It’ll be funky.
What do you mean by “funky?” I never noticed that problem in equatorial Africa. You had to boil water, yes, but once it was boiled, it was sterile and it was potable indefinitely. If you put it in a dirty dispenser or glass, then it would get dirty, but that’s because you put it in a dirty container. If your containers are clean the water will stay clean. If the water is not sterile, then the water wasn’t safe to being with. I never experimented with leaving a glass of water out for a month (what for?) but the boiled water in the dispenser stayed fine for weeks. You just had to make sure you regularly cleaned the dispenser.
For real freshness you need to make your own fresh oxygen and hydrogen atoms as well.
Does this have anything to do with the news? I recall last year in Chicago WGN did a piece on people buying bottled water and then refilling it from the tap.
They did swabs of the bottle and then put the swabs in a petri dish and grow all sorts of nasty diseases.
Of course they don’t tell you that a petri dish is full of nice things bacteria like. And while you might get a few germs on a bottle, the petri dish enables you to multiply bacteria like crazy.
Still I guess they had some point.
All well and good, but from the context you seemed to be responding to:
Those are two different things.
On the other hand, even sterile water in a completely sterile container can get funked up under the right conditions. Though SIRtain ‘Nosy’ people may find it objectionable, if you got faults, defects or shortcomings (you know, like arthritis, rheumatism or migraines, whatever part of your body it is), lay some water on the radio, and let the vibes flow through.
Funk not only moves, it can remove.