ironic primitive scared by molding oatmeal

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Oh my.

Iris  (1000+ posts)        Thu Mar-26-09 11:58 AM
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Horrified by oatmeal

I made Kashi instant oatmeal this morning like I usually do. After I finished, I went to a meeting. When I got back, mold was already beginning to form on the remnants in my oatmeal dish. I'm horrified and wondering if anyone has any idea what happened.

Actually, I bet what really happened was that the ironic primitive made the oatmeal circa January 13, 2005, and only just now noticed the dirty dishes in the sink.

no_hypocrisy  (1000+ posts)      Thu Mar-26-09 11:59 AM
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1. Reminds me of Quaker Instant Oatmeal. When I added water, reconstituted larva started to be animated. I like protein in my diet, but not like that.

hedgehog  (1000+ posts)      Thu Mar-26-09 12:05 PM
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5. Most people aren't really aware that grains are grown outdoors in the dirt where all kinds of bugs crawl. (People know this, but they really don't think about it!) Grains and raw grain products come with a certain number of bug eggs. In the right conditions, these bugs hatch out. Relax, and tell yourself this proves the pesticide level is low enough to be safe!

The snobbish primitive, the primitive who thinks insurance companies are "just out to make money;" the snobbish primitive, the primitive who recently returned to nursing just to make money:

uppityperson  (1000+ posts)        Thu Mar-26-09 12:25 PM
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11. happened to me with instant mac/cheese yrs back.

still can't stand the stuff. It was gross

tavalon  (1000+ posts)      Thu Mar-26-09 12:00 PM
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3. Really long meeting?

The mike_c primitive, an expert on insects, but very little else:

mike_c  (1000+ posts)        Thu Mar-26-09 12:04 PM
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4. that's pretty fast....

I'm assuming you made it with boiling or very hot water. If that's the case, you have little to be concerned about in terms of your own exposure.

Presumably, air borne mold spores settled on the cooling oatmeal and began to reproduce. Unless your meeting was several hours long, what you've described is pretty fast growth, but not outrageously so. Yeast grows in bread dough that quickly, i.e. the dough rises in an hour or so. The main impediment to that happening more often is probably the relative sparcity of fast growing mold strains in indoor, filtered atmosphere. Sounds like you won the lottery.

kestrel91316  (1000+ posts)        Thu Mar-26-09 12:08 PM
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6. Sorry. Mold doesn't grow that fast. And yes, I spent an entire semester in college in charge of a mycology laboratory, so I know a thing or two about mold.

I have no idea what you saw, but mold takes a few days to grow. When we culture dermatophytes ("ringworm") from cats' skin, there is often a little bit of fuzz after about 48 hours, and that's fast as far as these things go.

No need to be horrified, anyway. Mold spores are part of dust and dirt and are found everywhere in our environment. They are a main reason why refrigerators are such a nice thing to have.

mike_c  (1000+ posts)        Thu Mar-26-09 02:16 PM
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14. some do....

Yeasts for example.

on edit: Of course, yeasts are single celled, not hyphal.

The primitive who acquired all that prime lake-front property in California during the "terrible" "Bush" "economy":

tularetom  (1000+ posts)      Thu Mar-26-09 12:16 PM
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10. Oatmeal, gak! When I was a kid my parents used to buy it by the truckload and kept it in these big canisters. We used to find weevils and eggs n the canisters. Didn't bother them though. They kept dishing it up hot or cold every morning. My mom thought we actually ate the stuff until the dog puked up a big pile of it undigested on the kitchen floor one morning. Turns out all three of us had been feeding it to him.

[Carl]

It is probable that after sitting unattended for an hour or so the finer particles found in oatmeal settled on top as it cooled and dried.

That to me is the simplest explanation but not good enough to the feeble mind of a DUmmy.
To them everything has to be some sort of angst or evidence that the world is unfair (big evil food company making too much money by packaging food dangerous for them to eat).

I would hate to live life like that.

[Flame]

Only thing that psot tells me is the Dummy is a slob, and well, a dummy.  HEre's an idea...wash your bowl after you eat, before you go to your meeting!  Problem solved!  Besides...leaving oatmeal in a bowl for an period of time leaves a mess that will take twice as long to clean, once it dries on!

[lastparker]

I have to say, I'm surprised at the collective mockery of oatmeal over at the DUmp.  I'd have thought it was one of their staples, next to the organic granola and the tofu.

[USA4ME]

Iris
 
Horrified by oatmeal

I made Kashi instant oatmeal this morning like I usually do. After I finished, I went to a meeting. When I got back, mold was already beginning to form on the remnants in my oatmeal dish. I'm horrified and wondering if anyone has any idea what happened.

It's Bushs' fault.

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[JohnnyReb]

Only thing that psot tells me is the Dummy is a slob, and well, a dummy.  HEre's an idea...wash your bowl after you eat, before you go to your meeting!  Problem solved!  Besides...leaving oatmeal in a bowl for an period of time leaves a mess that will take twice as long to clean, once it dries on!

DUmmies just leave them dirty for a week or two and then when it's completely dried up, they just blow them off....it's the new greenway to save energy and water.

[MrsSmith]

Remember, DUmmies lie...  

[LC EFA]

Iris  (1000+ posts)        Thu Mar-26-09 11:58 AM
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Horrified by oatmeal

I made Kashi instant oatmeal this morning like I usually do. After I finished, I went to a meeting. When I got back, mold was already beginning to form on the remnants in my oatmeal dish. I'm horrified and wondering if anyone has any idea what happened.

This is testament to the grossly unsanitary conditions in the primitives domicile more than anything else.

[happy1ga]

I'm with the lovely Mrs. Smith on this one. Those of us with small children, or like me, small grandchildren, probably have left a dish of oatmeal sitting out for a while, before getting it to the dishwasher. When you have small children, things sometimes go by the wayside for a few hours/half a day. I have never seen anything that looked remotely like a fuzz or mold on an empty bowl caked with dried oatmeal.  What an attention whore.

[The Village Idiot]

Remember, DUmmies lie...  

stomachs have acid for a reason.. duh... i like oatmeal