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The Adam Ragusea Podcast
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Bacterial Endospores Are Like a Safe Room Inside the Bacteria's Little House
Bacterial endo spores are not used for reproduction the way that like ferns and funguses use their ors. They can survive all kinds of extreme conditions because they aren't really alive. The n spores of bacillus sereus can even withstand a boiling pot of water. So you boil your rice, which has these endo spores inside it, potentially, and then you let the rice cool down. Once it cools down below one 35 fahrenheit, 57 c enters the danger zone. That's the temperature range in which most bacteria are most active. And now, instead of being marooned in a desert of desicated rice grains, like they were before
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