• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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.)

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        1 year ago

        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.

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          1 year ago

          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.