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What's something dumb or useless people do when cooking because they saw it on from a YouTube video? (lemmy.world)
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[+] -8 points 1 day ago (29 children)

What's wrong with washing chicken? You never know where it has been.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 day ago (18 children)

    The issue is that the chicken bacteria (potentially salmonella or campylobacter) gets splashed around inside and outside the sink.

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  • [+] -11 points 1 day ago (9 children)

    We do this all the time in asia, no widespread food poisoning despite science claiming it will. It's always the westerner claiming it will, or you guys just have some of the weakest sauce stomach.

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  • [–] 7 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

    It's an entirely unnecessary step. If you practice decent food hygiene it probably doesn't significantly increase your likelihood of contaminated food, but it very easily could especially if you arent following other best practices.

    Do whatever you want, and make fun of me all you want. I'm not going to do extra work to increase my odds of shitting myself

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  • [–] -3 points 17 hours ago* (3 children)

    Unnecessary for you, necessary for a lot of place. Or not, nobody care. I've seen more people making fun of others for doing so than those who make fun of other for not, so i'm not sure why you think i'm making fun of you, i didn't even demand you to do so(while the other way around is true, look at your other comment). Again, there's no widespread of food poisoning happening for those who washed their chicken yet the moment someone mention they did people coming in being hysterical about the potential food poisoning. At this point it's just superiority complex.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    Is that a realistic problem?

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  • [+] -6 points 20 hours ago*

    I don’t know. I am aware of this argument and I still wash chicken and pork, and pat dry with a paper towel before cooking. I never wash beef unless it’s packed wet, because I don’t want to ruin the searing. I wash chicken because I find it gross otherwise. I never noticed that this habit of washing caused any problems.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    Instead of washing it, just cook it.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Hair, sand, etc?

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  • [–] 31 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    How are you storing your chicken?!

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    If you don't see the insides of meat factories and market warehouses it doesn't mean they are nice. Bet the refrigerator of your nearby supermarket was thoroughly cleaned in 2019.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 day ago

    I've been in the factories and supermarkets as a worker and an inspector. It's very rare (I don't say impossible, because there's always a chance) to find hair, sand, and other foreign objects in meat processed in registered factories - the cleanliness is pretty high up there because the fines are also high up there.

    But if you're getting meat from an unregistered butcher/retailer, you're on your own. You can also see/inspect the meat in the display case before you buy.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago* (3 children)

    You're more likely to spread germs around your sink and kitchen by washing it. If they splash upwards onto the tap and then get splashed downwards into the bowl where you're rinsing your salad greens, the salad could make you sick. Whereas the germs on the chicken will die from cooking.

    Edit: if you must, I suppose you could set up an outdoor chicken washing place. But do you also wash your other meats?

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  • [–] -2 points 17 hours ago* (1 child)

    Everybody knows that chicken water is gross. Maybe the people who insist on washing their chicken also bother to wash their kitchen?

    This is one of those areas where restaurant and factory food safety standards are being misapplied to the home cook. The risk of food born illness cannot be eliminated, only mitigated; it's a statistics problem. And the formula changes dramatically when your serving 200 people vs when your serving 4. Or when your washing 1 bird vs 50.

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  • [–] 4 points 17 hours ago

    If you take the chicken out of the package and drop it on the floor, the odds probably change to "rinse it without splashing, put it in the cooking container and IMMEDIATELY scrub your hands and the entire sink area, then put the scrubber in the dishwasher and don't use it again until it's been sterilized." But in general the less you handle it the better.

    Funny thing, most people who wash chicken wouldn't think of washing a steak.

    Side note: one thing people often forget is they touch their spice jars with their chicken/meat/fish hands.

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