My understanding is that it depends on how efficiently the food matter absorbs the radiation and for how long. At a certain point you’re looking at it becoming carbon (ash) or a degree of it becoming carbon and stopping.
This would depend on a lot of things. Time, intensity, UV-a/UV-b, or even “natural sunlight”… ambient temperature and everything else going on around.
I’m not sure what the point would be, though. If it’s already fully cooked, it’s reasonably sterilized. And UV won’t penetrate very far at all, so it’d only sterilize the exterior surface.
But, like, anything that would do enough is going to cause some changes to texture. (Ie probably dry it out. Like sundried things- sunlight has some UV in it.)
So, your uncooked minced/ground beef patty then for example, wouldn’t benefit from some wacky “UV food sanitizer”. The uncooked mixed parts are still inside/underneath and still uncooked and capable of delivering undesirable biological entities.
My understanding is that it depends on how efficiently the food matter absorbs the radiation and for how long. At a certain point you’re looking at it becoming carbon (ash) or a degree of it becoming carbon and stopping.
Tbh, I’m more interested in whether ultrasonic sanitization fucks up the food somehow
This would depend on a lot of things. Time, intensity, UV-a/UV-b, or even “natural sunlight”… ambient temperature and everything else going on around.
I’m not sure what the point would be, though. If it’s already fully cooked, it’s reasonably sterilized. And UV won’t penetrate very far at all, so it’d only sterilize the exterior surface.
But, like, anything that would do enough is going to cause some changes to texture. (Ie probably dry it out. Like sundried things- sunlight has some UV in it.)
So, your uncooked minced/ground beef patty then for example, wouldn’t benefit from some wacky “UV food sanitizer”. The uncooked mixed parts are still inside/underneath and still uncooked and capable of delivering undesirable biological entities.
If you had it thin enough it could, just uv penetration x2 because use uv on both sides. Not sure how thin the pieces would have to be though.
Who wants a dried out super thin nuclear patty for their burger? 😷