Is the five second rule true?

Thats just in professional kitchens like Mcdonalds etc

It actually is known as the 3 second rule and the answer is absolutely not. Let's review what is on that floor and how fast germs viruses and bacteria grow. First of all you walk all around you house including the bathroom tracking stuff from one room to the next. Feces residues can be found all over the house. that alone should be enough to turn you off of eating of the floor. If you have animals that is even a greater reason to poo pooh the 3 second law. Imagine what kind of seasonings you are getting from the kitty litter. Also animals track in those things that give warms to you. When a male man relieves himself some of that liguid bounces out onto the floor. Yumm!! Even though there are millions of salmonella germs on your skin if you have ever watched it grow when you touch a pedia try is enough to make you worry. You track in all sorts of dirt from outdoors that God only knows what creatures have relieved themselves in. So if you feel comfortable with even a 100th of a second rule. Bon Apitite. but please don't be kissing me or preparing my meal. I remember watching this famous female chef on TV. She had a habit of sampling her wine while cooking frequently getting a little tipsy by the end of the show. In this one show she had drunkenly dropped the fish on the floor picked it up and proclaimed, "they'll never know the difference." I don't know about that this was national TV. In this case the fish hadn't been cooked yet so I imagine anything harmful got cooked out. Not so, if it was a while before it got cooked. You see it isn't the bacteria that kills you it is the excretions there of.

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Is the five second rule true?

When you drop food on the ground is it really still OK if it has only been there for five seconds?

Well, if it's completely cooked than it's still ok to eat it, but it really doesn't matter how long it's been on the floor. The show Mythbusters tested this and actually found that there is no difference in bacteria between like 15 and 5 seconds, so it doesn't matter.

I don't believe that it is really true since bacteria is everywhere good and bad however I think that if something hits the ground for only 5 seconds it's probably not enough bad bacteria to hurt ya!!! After all I'm still here.

at my house you would still be safe if it was 5 minutes [ wife really does keep the whole house that clean, why she puts up with me is the real question]

any where else five second "rule" is twenty seconds too long

throw it away or you will get sick.

I think it's just something you say/think so you can peacefully eat something that has fallen on the floor. Maybe it's not but it's a damn good excuse. It makes you decide in 5 seconds if you're gonna eat it or throw it away...

haha yeah, i think you can safely leave food there for a lot longer than 5 seconds. How many bacteria are there on your fingers ? LOTS, but you survive, either pick it up and eat it or throw it away.

When I am camping i always put sandwiches on the grass/ground and i am still ok.

It depends on what you are calling 'the ground'. Do you mean your floor? You can be the judge of that, you know how clean your own floor is, and who walks around on it barefoot. If you mean the ground outdoors, I would leave what ever I dropped there. You never know what has been there before you.

No, It really isn't. What does the floor have on it? Your dirt from shoes and such. Will not kill you just disgusting to eat the floor. Mythbusters did this on a episode, look on there site to see if there might be a clip from it.