[HiTech RedNeck]

I guess that would smell like good-and-chlorinated water. If that’s OK to put in a salad or on a hamburger... well it’s mil-spec food :-)

Doing the math and taking 50 ppm meaning sodium hypochlorite concentration (not some chemical derivative) and today’s “ultra” bleach that sports 6.25% NaOCl, that’s 125 times weaker than the bottled bleach. 128 ounces are in a gallon, and two measuring tablespoons are in an ounce, so two tablespoons per gallon would be very close to this. In old survival literature, one was supposed to put a drop of bleach in a gallon of water to make it keep — a couple orders of magnitude less.

[patlin]

Oops, correction...And for the record, cantaloupe, nor any melon for that matter, are not grown on trees the last I checked

[JRandomFreeper]

And to test it, every military and commercial kitchen I was in had test strips to ensure 50ppm. If you can smell bleach, it's too strong. If the test strip doesn't change color, it's too weak.

And we had health inspectors in every single day to do a full-up inspection of the facilities in the military.

Once every 3 years in commercial establishments.

One of the things that got and kept me jobs in commercial joints was that I wasn't afraid or intimidated by a health inspection.

WTF. We had them every day, on deployments.

The only up-side on the commercial side was that you didn't have a LTC or COL MD expecting to get a piece of cake or something after the inspection. ;)

/johnny