"PENMART01" > wrote in message
...
> >"zuuum" writes:
> >
> >Leaving the surface salted will draw moisture out, depending on how long
it
> >is left.
>
> Salt also kills bacteria... why do you think dentists/docs prescribe
> gargling/irrigating with saline solution for reducing/preventing
> mouth/throat/sinus infections.
>
> When kashering by salting was first begun (many thosands of years past) no
one
> know from bacteria, but they did know that far fewer people died from
eating
> kashered meat. The discovery of bacteria occured relatively recently...
only
> about 300 years ago by Antony van Leeuwenhoek.
>


Drawing the moisture out of the bacteria is exactly how it kills them.
Since all bacteria (even anaerobic) need food and water, it is the osmotic
moisture drawing effect (not toxicity) that more or less makes life too
difficult for them to grow and, ultimately, survive.

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives...6568.Gb.r.html
http://www.naturalrearing.com/J_In_L...IAFIGHTER.html