Kitchen

[shoesnbags]

@Desert Lily 

I would have left the cartons in the sink overnight and then poured the melted ice cream down the drain the next day.  But I don't understand why you had to "sanitize" the sink afterwards.  The ice cream wasn't contaminated, just old, right? I would have just sprayed some water around to rinse out the sink. 

[Imaoldhippie]

@Desert Lily ...........What a lot of work and worry you created for yourself.  Just let it melt in the sink, pour it out and run water to rinse.  Why sanitize?

[Harpa]

With liquidy things, or something like ice cream, I put in plastic bags that I've saved from the stores, and then into another sturdy plastic garbage bag.

You could buy smaller sizes of ice cream.

I'm only in the mood for ice cream very rarely, DH, too. So the best thing for us is to get the smaller sizes.

[Desert Lily]

Hi, my concern about the melted ice cream in the sink was that it could cause Listeria bacteria. I didn't think I could do a good enough job of just rinsing the sink, so after rinsing I sanitized.

Maybe I worry too much. From now on, I think I'll buy ice cream in a smaller size when I crave it.

[River Song]

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@Desert Lily wrote:

Hi, my concern about the melted ice cream in the sink was that it could cause Listeria bacteria. I didn't think I could do a good enough job of just rinsing the sink, so after rinsing I sanitized.

Maybe I worry too much. From now on, I think I'll buy ice cream in a smaller size when I crave it.

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Listeria can be present in unpasteurized foods.  Listeria is killed by pasteurization.  Commercially made ice cream is pasteurized so it was unnecessary to sanitize unless the ice cream was made with unpasteurized ingredients.

The only time I've thrown out ice cream was due to an extended power outage from, say, a hurricane.  Ice cream does not go to waste in my house, lol.

[ValuSkr]

Just wondering - why did you discard perfectly good ice cream?  You didn't like the flavors?  Or you decided against the calories?

[goldensrbest]

Never found this to be a problem.

[riley1]

I leave the cartons in the sink, when I ice cream is melted I pour down the drain.

[shoesnbags]

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@River Song wrote:

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@Desert Lily wrote:

Hi, my concern about the melted ice cream in the sink was that it could cause Listeria bacteria. I didn't think I could do a good enough job of just rinsing the sink, so after rinsing I sanitized.

Maybe I worry too much. From now on, I think I'll buy ice cream in a smaller size when I crave it.

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Listeria can be present in unpasteurized foods.  Listeria is killed by pasteurization.  Commercially made ice cream is pasteurized so it was unnecessary to sanitize unless the ice cream was made with unpasteurized ingredients.

The only time I've thrown out ice cream was due to an extended power outage from, say, a hurricane.  Ice cream does not go to waste in my house, lol.

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@Desert Lily 

This!

[Desert Lily]

@River Song  There have been recalls due to Listeria in ice cream. In the past they included Blue Bunny, Baskin Robbins, Blue Bell, & Big Olaf. There may have been others. Ice cream can get listeria from factory conditions. And, melted ice cream is a "petri dish" for listeria to grow in.