On Sat, 06 May 2006 00:34:13 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:


|Raising the water to 60 C kills about 95% of the bugs in seconds.

That temperature is actually *82* deg C to kill food poisoning bugs
Some food poisoning bugs breed nicely below 64 deg C

|Raising it to 100C kills about 99.999% in about 5 seconds, and 99.99999%
|in 5 minutes.


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