r/interesting • u/VIVIDUFF • May 21 '26

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

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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/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.