Comes once again come on social network The last surreal fashion linked to food and kitchen. After the dishwasher used in a “alternative” way to cook and wash vegetables and meat, the last madness that is spreading on the web concerns the refrigerator and its most absurd uses. For weeks on Tiktok They go crazy in which the drawers of the appliance are used as containers to prepare recipes to be enjoyed in real time. A trend as crazy as it is risky for the health of those who try to replicate it.
How the trend was born
As often happens when it comes to trend, it is Tiktok who has conveyed the last folly Social that made viral videorough nets prepared directly in the refrigerated drawer. Cold pasta, salads, milk and cereals but above all tiramisu made in the compartment and ready to be eaten every time you open the door of the refrigerator. To start this fashion was a video that has become viral in the United Kingdom and made by a Manchester restaurant on a tiramisu prepared and preserved in drawer of the refrigerator.
The Reel has exceeded 30 million views and has been replicated in many ways on social media, transforming the idea into a dangerous trend. The risks related to the phenomenon, which is spreading both in England and in the United States, have been highlighted by many users who in the comments of the videos that have become viral have expressed perplexities and doubts about the absurd practice and also the experts on food safety have spoken of trendy dangerous.
The risks to health
Prepare dishes directly in the refrigerated drawer – and leave them in contact with other foods inside the cooler – may seem fun and original in a social key, but it is a practice that the expert they advise against possible food contaminations. “The use proposed in the videos creates the assumption of a contamination of food to potentially pathogenic agents with risks from a toxicological point of view and for health“Alberto Angioni, professor of food chemistry at the University of Cagliari explained.
The good practices provide that cooked or raw foods must be stored inside the refrigerator in closed containers tightly or protected with special food films to avoid, that they deteriorate quickly and to avoid the so -called contamination crusade, or the passage of pathogenic microorganisms from food contaminated to other foods that can cause intoxications even serious food. Therefore, it is better to leave the fashion to use the refrigerated drawer to cook and prepare cold “pret a manger” dishes.