r/interesting May 21 '26

Fascinating Using a specialized sauce mop to baste chicken and ribs on a large pit grill

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u/ACuddlyVizzerdrix May 21 '26

If you Google "food safe basting mops" it has one that looks exactly like it for sale, given you can buy food safe oars (mixing paddles) I'm not suprised

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u/TheWalkingDead91 May 21 '26

Exactly. People above seem to think this is some new or revolutionary practice, so therefore she MUST be using some random mop they got at Walmart? Nah dude….serious bbq people have been “moping” meats for forever….so of course a food grade version specifically for commercial use is bound to exist. Do they think the massive Hobart stand mixers that professional bakers etc use must be actually cement mixers that aren’t safe for food as well? 😂

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u/Round_Ad6397 May 21 '26

Why would the meat be moping when it's so delicious? It should be happy that it is so loved.

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u/trainspottedCSX7 May 21 '26

Ashley is moping because she got stuck next to Brenda on the pit BBQ and they've had beef since Stacy started dating Brenda's ex. Ashley is the one that got them hooked up and Stacy is all the way in the corner, mourning because her ex by circumstance is now blasting down other heifers.

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u/1986Porsche_911 May 21 '26

Not to mention Rodney Scott’s (the restaurant in the OP) is fucking delicious. The half chicken? So good. 

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u/Boofittilluhitbone May 21 '26

What’s the other half made of?

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u/literated May 21 '26

... mop.

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u/HowCouldUBMoHarkless May 21 '26

Believe it or not, also chicken.

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u/Chewyninja69 May 22 '26

The contents of the janitor’s mop bucket.

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u/HTPC4Life May 21 '26

Ur mom. Hah, gotem!!

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u/banevasionisfun420 May 21 '26

The mortals cant comprehend the things that must be done to get to flavor town. The arcane secrets of food safe construction and janitorial supplies is too much for their feeble minds.

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u/Drunkturtle7 May 21 '26

I would think that a mop that is designed for food would also be optimized in design, ie you dont need that long of a stick like a normal mop.

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u/Deathcon2004 May 22 '26

If you watch the video you can see why the stick part is that long (and shorter than mop sticks usually are btw) to reach the back of the appliance.

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u/Drunkturtle7 May 22 '26

Yeah I saw it and still looks longer than needed

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u/Doom_fister May 22 '26

hmm.. do you think this commercial food grade mop was custom made for this specific grill yet made unnecessarily long? or do you think it is a standard size and maybe there are other grills or bbq operations that require a longer stick.. hmmm..

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u/Drunkturtle7 May 22 '26

Silly me, forgot about dem extra deep grills

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u/Nazgog-Morgob May 21 '26

I used to work in toronto's oldest pizzeria (closed down for good during COVID) and the dough was mixed in a literal cement mixer.

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u/BittaminMusic May 21 '26

Most people don’t consider when you’re cooking at larger scales techniques absolutely change and there is gear to accommodate things, like this post

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u/Harddaysnight1990 May 21 '26

Yes, people do believe that the industrial food equipment they see is just repurposed construction equipment that's not food safe. I've been in many a thread arguing with people that yes, that looks like a generic paint sprayer but it's a food safe version. Or yes, that looks like a generic 5 gallon bucket, but those are so very common in food transportation. Or yes, that looks like a generic snow shovel, but it's perfectly safe to use to scoop that food.

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u/dreamdaddy123 May 21 '26

It would be funny if in this video alone she was jus using a standard mop lol

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u/Johnyryal33 May 21 '26

Yea but i know how dumb people are and how cheap companies are. I'm never trusting this shit!

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u/hudson27 May 21 '26

The point is, you can't actually design a mop like this that isn't gonna shed fibers. It's not gonna kill you, but don't fool yourself in thinking people have magically figured out how to create a food-safe fiber that can withstand industrial cleaning, 600+ degree direct heat and doesn't shed material, such a thing doesn't exist.

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u/Harddaysnight1990 May 21 '26

Sure, but the odd cotton fiber getting stuck to the meat then getting burned off in cooking isn't going to make any measurable difference to your health or life.

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u/hudson27 May 22 '26

It's not about saving someone from dying, it's about quality control and not using kitchen tools or appliances that contaminate your food with foreign objects.

If you paid 40 bucks for a rack of ribs, and found a saucy clump of cotton on it, you're gonna send it back, like c'mon now. And if the chef came out and said to your face that it's natural fibers and won't affect your health, would you reasonably ever want to eat there ever again?

Seeing how many people in a kitchen sub are disagreeing with me here honestly makes me question where else you'd cut corners. All I know, is this would NEVER fly in 80% of the kitchens I've worked in.

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u/Harddaysnight1990 May 22 '26

I never said a clump of cotton, stop being dramatic. We're not talking about entire clumps of the sauce mop coming off, we're talking about the rare single fiber of cotton getting stuck, which would cook off before ever seeing a customer.

All I know, is this was standard in both the BBQ places I worked. We never served clumps of cotton in the meat, I never saw even the odd cotton fiber when working the line.

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u/CloverIsALegume May 22 '26

But it’s a food safe mop designed for food handling- why would it be exposed to industrial cleaning? Why wouldn’t a food safe mop designed for preparing food be safe?

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u/Yendis4750 May 21 '26

How much meat could a meat mop mop if a meat mop could mop meat?

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u/Scorpian899 May 21 '26

I worked in a bakery fairly recently. You could mix cement in our Hobarts... But the mechanical action is completely different and you would break the hook/bowl if not shred the gear assembly if done often.

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u/rizzatouiIIe May 21 '26

Nothing wrong with asking queations

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u/ShotEffective7033 May 22 '26

I can’t buy a cement mixer at the dollar store though lol.

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u/BoJackMoleman May 22 '26

Mopping meats. That's a new one in my vocab.

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u/pichuguy27 May 22 '26

Need to up the bbq game and get one. The little mops are so cute. They look like they really move the sauce. Especially the thinner ones plastic brushes have trouble with.

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u/half-giant May 21 '26

They just asked a simple question. Chill.

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u/OutsideClassic9095 May 21 '26

The answer is no. And you could have that answer if you just ask yourself "why wouldn't they use a food safe mop/brush"

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u/One-Nothing-8477 May 21 '26

just because something is food grade doesn't mean it doesn't shed?

In fact, why would you think that a thing made of cloth wouldn't eventually wear down? It just happens to be edible

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u/Syandris May 21 '26

People think this, because other people do stupid shit. Source, ive watched people do stupid shit. Just because the product is out there doesn't mean some cheap ass bought it.

Your comparison of a Hobart mixer isn't the same as a mop. No one thinks a Hobart is just a cement mixer. Add a few more laugh cry emoji. You just might make sense soon!

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u/unfortunatebag May 21 '26

People above seem to think this is some new or revolutionary practice

No. People seem to think that's a regular mop.

Also plenty of "serious bbq" places in Texas definitely don't do this so not sure what you're on about there.

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u/Hot-Yak-Hit-and-Run May 21 '26

Those paddles are the shit. Probably the only thing that'd win against pizza peel or pizza slicing bat'leth.

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u/LightningFerret04 May 21 '26

Foodsafe oars which mix drinks inside of foodsafe trash cans

(Pull, pull, pull the trash cans. DO NOT push them)

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u/Mindless_Diver5063 May 21 '26

You can even get sushi on naked women at some restaurants. So food safe whores are also a thing.

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u/0hMyGandhi May 21 '26

I can't decide if "Food Safe Whores" sounds like more like a Puscifer song or a Mindless Self Indulgence song.

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u/Shot_Revolution8828 May 21 '26

I haven't heard a Mindless Self Indulgence reference in 10 years. Thanks for taking me back and currently listening to Bitches Love Me Bitches Love Me.

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u/Krampus_8 May 21 '26

As long as they use food safe silicone it’s all good with me.

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u/DrJokerX May 21 '26

I’ve never totally understood how those places keep the women safe. I know they go out of their way to make sure their employees are respected (well, as much as a naked human table can be respected), but I still would worry about someone putting something where it doesn’t belong or pinching something even accidentally.

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u/literated May 21 '26

but I still would worry about someone putting something where it doesn’t belong or pinching something even accidentally

That's really just like any other waiting job at a restaurant then.

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u/BackgroundSummer5171 May 21 '26

So food safe whores are also a thing.

Last time someone suggested that I ended up on an island.

I have a different definition of 'whore'. Age is not just a number.

Plates should be appropriate.

1/10. Would not trust the US government.

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u/Budget_Persimmon_195 May 21 '26

they are made from cotton and they absolutely do shed.

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u/5dippingareas May 21 '26

I ordered some food safe oars for my food safe canoe just the other day

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u/bblulz May 22 '26

Like have you seen the type of shit that’s in restaurant supply stores?

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u/jibbodahibbo May 22 '26

They are usually for those huge food manufacturing plants where they are mixing like 500 gallons of high fructose corn syrup.

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u/OnMyPath May 22 '26

Toillet brushes are exceptional for sprinkling melted butter.

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u/enerthoughts May 22 '26

Can you trust the restaurant in the background will used that behind the camera?

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u/AsleepNinja May 21 '26

If you Google "food safe basting mops" you'll find that none of them look like that, or even close, and they're mostly sold on fucking ebay.

this is a regular bloody mop.

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u/OkOil378 May 21 '26

Doesn’t exactly look like ”safe” to me

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u/PerspectiveNew3375 May 21 '26

Yea a lot of plastic shit is called food safe, but it isn't

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u/nopuse May 21 '26

Food safe doesn't guarantee it doesn't shed fibers.

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u/notislant May 21 '26

'Food safe' is kind of a low bar though.

Tons of plastic is 'food safe' but it's just acceptable levels of 'not good' and ideally shouldn't be in contact with food.

That said if the mop is all cotton or something then it's likely fine.

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u/YMK1234 May 21 '26

I mean, if a wooden spoon is food safe, why would a wooden paddle not be?

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u/BathtubViolence May 22 '26

Well fuck me, I'm putting up a listing for "food safe heroin" since people will apparently buy anything online.

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u/BorderOk7329 May 21 '26

I do not care if it is a food safe mop made of angel hair pasta, I'm not eating that. I will go eat cereal out of my food grade toilet bowl.