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The original was posted on /r/askculinary by /u/CG_Details on 2023-09-23 18:37:49.

I got a really nice little hand crank pasta machine in a secondhand store for a song. I don’t know it’s history, so I really want to make sure it is clean & disinfected before I get to cooking with it. It LOOKS tidy, but I don’t know what the interior mechanisms are like.

I don’t want to waste your time, so did my research including here in r/AskCulinary before coming to ask for more guidance. No soaking, no rinsing, no heavy soaps. Wipe with damp cloth and dry thoroughly. Good to re-oil the gears, no olive oil (good at first, rancid later) but food grade mineral oil is good. Run a “sacrificial dough” through it to make sure it’s really gunked/oiled out.

Is it overkill to do more? I’m eyeballing the rubbing alcohol. Dousing it in rubbing alcohol shouldn’t rust it but will kill anything lurking inside from its previous owners, and it should evaporate clean. Or am I being too picky?

Edit: I’ve always understood that if you buy a food-prep item from the secondhand store, you sterilize it before you use it.

Edit 2: Ran the sacrificial dough through it and it got stuck so badly I had to disassemble it to get it out. Holy cow this post is much ado about nothing. Started by saying I didn’t want to waste your time… I wasted your time. Sorry guys.