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Garbage bags for food storage.
Posted: 12:59 pm, July 17th, 2009 in Miscellaneous
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Carnegie John stores all his raw food in a cooler right next to his cart.
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I'm not sure that's any better. Because I work on 45th between 2nd and 3rd usually it's Qwik Meal that I see using the garbage bags. What gets me is Mr. Rahman brags who worked at the Russian Tea room. Does he think that they would use garbage bags to store raw chicken or lamb? No. So what good is your provenance or experience if you are going to throw your standards to the curb?
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Some food for thought....
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Fact_Sheets/meat_packaging_materials/index.asp
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I go to the Kwik Meal at 47th and Park and have never seen them use garbage bags. I've always seen them using metal bins.
If you have a problem with garbage bags or coolers, perhaps you should avoid all street meat. Its not like they have a full size walk in fridge in their carts...
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usually I do avoid carts that use garbage bags. Is it so hard to actually use food safe zip-loc bags?
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Just went back today to the 47th and Park cart, got some chicken on rice for 5.50. Extra generous with the green hot sauce today. Great as ever.
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my wife uses regular kitchen garbage bags (unscented) to mix large salads when we entertain. I always assumed this was safe. Maybe we should go back to the old fashioned way to toss a salad . . .
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From the Goats link:
"The use of plastic trash bags for food storage or cooking is also not recommended because they are not food grade plastic and chemicals from them may leach into the food."
Most of the vendors also reuse the heavy mayo containers to store their pre-mixed white sauce.
Interesting read, in general.
Now while I don't think that this stuff will kill you, it could cause issues over time depending on how susceptible your body is to chemicals.
A workaround would be to vary where you purchase your meals from, since all of the vendors won't be using the exact same brand of storage products. Every manufacturer probably has different formulas and processes. You could be getting more toxins at one vendor over another. By spreading your meal purchases around, you would be getting an average level of chemicals from the food you consume.
It's kind of like varying the types of fish you eat. Obviously, there have been studies done on mercury content so that we all now know which fish have greater concentrations. Before the study was done, you didn't know which types of fish had high concentrations of mercury, so if you ate your favorite fish daily, you could have ended up with high (or low) mercury content in your body....However, if you ate a different fish daily, you would probably have a middle of the road amount of mercury in your body.
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I've seen good old fashioned diners using plastic garbage cans to mix large quantities of cole slaw.
Variety is key. That's one of the great things about Manhattan.
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Has anyone noticed that a lot of carts use plastic garbage bags for storing their raw, par-cooked and cooked meats. I am talking about actual drawstring garbage bags. They seem to be used for all stages of cooking.
I was wondering about the health effects of using these kinds of bags for storage. I wouldn't guess that it's the same as using a food safe ziploc bag. This, more than any other reason, keeps me from going to any cart too often.