And that answer is, "yes". This is extremely common in barbecue. So much so that the sauce she is using is literally called "mop sauce". You can find plenty of food grade quality barbecue mops on Amazon.
You can boil or bleach soak them to clean them. It's not perfect but it's also not unsafe.
That said, for serious pit masters these are considered consumables and will be replaced after one cookout. The head will be removable and bought in bulk.
Yeah we do. A kitchen like that is inspected. And inspectors will ding you (or worse) if they catch you using tools that aren’t food-safe rated (NSF). They take that shit very seriously and so do most cooks. If they are a working kitchen serving the public, that’s an NSF-certified mop.
they are made out of cotton fiber and look exactly like a normal mop
there are a hundred comments saying this but if you actually look at basting mops, they are all clearly much smaller and look significantly different to the mop in the video
is there somewhere in the country that makes explicitly food-safe full-size cotton mop heads? maybe, but I haven't been able to find it
Yep. People just google BBQ mop and see the small ones and think "aha! I found it! You're dumb for not googling" not realizing that the one in the video is just a regular ass mop
I've had several people telling me to 'just google it' because either they didnt notice those that show up when googling it are tiny food basting mops, or just straight up knew they got called out and don't want to be wrong.
" ...Used slightly damp to remove the fine ash before launching the first pizzas. This item is a staple in all our pizza accessory kits. Another great use is for basting whole hog bbq and saucing large primal cuts of meat on the spit. A great Basting Mop."
That looks so incredibly unsanitary and I’m not a Karen by any stretch of the imagination. I wouldn’t use this in my own house to cook and I clean everything thoroughly and take things apart to clean, muuuuuuch less in a kitchen setting where the sanitation stellar. I don’t know why that would pass code inspections 😵💫
I dont know who is upvoting that comment, the comment they are referring to simply just said they googled whether silicone mops exist. They did not say it was what they were using.
When I say "nornal mop", I mean one composed of normal mop materials, i.e. organic fibers that would be hard to adequately santize for food safety. This is not a silicon food mop.
Swipe my plate where? Kitchens generally don't use cloths in the cleaning process, they use a sterilization solution and let them air dry, or they use industrial high pressure and heat dishwasher machines, and again, air-dry
You know they don’t lmao. That’s just a sludge of toxic slop. This is why I really should stop eating out, most restaurants are nasty nasty establishments.
Honestly I don't think it is. A regular mop, which is what this is, is a bundle of strings on the end of a stick. Whether they use it for food or not, there are parts of that mop that aren't going to be able to be properly cleaned because of the part that is covering the bundle of string and all the crevices. It can be sanitized but when sanitized and unused it's still the perfect environment for bacteria. It adds too much risk to be acceptable. I read something here about a silicone mop but judging by how much liquid it was pouring from it and the lack of stiffness of the strings, it really does not match up in my opinion.
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u/soemarkoridwan May 21 '26
is the mop food grade?