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(Vince Poroke) wrote:

> Not so much cooking but cooking related. Add egg shells to you
> garbage disposal to sharpen the blades. Any understanding of what
> happens down there would debunk this myth. Cook pork till it is well
> done to kill of the virus that causes some type of worm (sorry can't
> remember what the name is and I am not about to go search the internet
> and come back to give you all the name just so that I may have a
> facade of intellegence, you all know who you are). All I have to
> support this is what Alton Brown said.

The one about pork _used_ to be true, but I can't remember the name of
the parasite (trichinosis? something like that). It would form cysts in
the muscle tissue, and if not cooked properly could infect humans who
ate the meat.

It's not an issue now.

Miche

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