“A little garlic to kill the germs.” Mike Tyson makes eggs on Jimmy Kimmel

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Mike Tyson’s resurgence as a figure in popular culture is likely correlated with his frequent appearances on Jimmy Kimmel (my favorite one is Mike Tyson’s pigeons). Last night he was at it again and showed Jimmy how to make an omelette a scramble. Tyson includes a little food safety advice, “need a little garlic to kill the germs.”

Not sure that’s going to work for Salmonella. Probably best to cook it 145F, which just above the temperature that eggs set at.

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Dr. Ben Chapman is a professor and food safety extension specialist at North Carolina State University. As a teenager, a Saturday afternoon viewing of the classic cable movie, Outbreak, sparked his interest in pathogens and public health. With the goal of less foodborne illness, his group designs, implements, and evaluates food safety strategies, messages, and media from farm-to-fork. Through reality-based research, Chapman investigates behaviors and creates interventions aimed at amateur and professional food handlers, managers, and organizational decision-makers; the gate keepers of safe food. Ben co-hosts a biweekly podcast called Food Safety Talk and tries to further engage folks online through Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and, maybe not surprisingly, Pinterest. Follow on Twitter @benjaminchapman.