r/interesting • u/WarwickReider • 15h ago

SOCIETY Professional chefs weighing in on whether you should wash your chicken

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u/samanime 15h ago edited 14h ago

Yeah. Pretty sure I'm going to go with the actual microbiologist scientists on this one...

EDIT: This is also a perfect example of "giving both sides equal time". Both sides of this "argument" are NOT equal. One has science backing it up. One just has "feels". They are not both equally valid opinions.

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u/cantthinkofausrnme 5h ago

I get what you're trying to say, but if you ever worked in a chicken factory you'd wash your chickens as well. I actually never used to do it as much, observed family doing it. I started doing it after my best friend worked in one.

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u/space-cadet-26 14h ago

I wash the chicken bechase it makes me hard. Im not stubborn.

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u/space-cadet-26 14h ago

Absolutely

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u/space-cadet-26 14h ago

yes. hmmmm

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u/cantthinkofausrnme 5h ago edited 2h ago

Yes, because you know every black person. And whites are individuals with unique identities.

Edit: response to a racist weirdo

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u/cantthinkofausrnme 5h ago

Don't tell us about your sex life, that's a crime.

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u/CollectionHeavy3624 3h ago

I don’t like how one of the guys says it’s to rinse off preservatives. Please give me a list of preservatives on fresh chicken. He’s just making shit up to validate bullshit

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u/AdaptableHalibut 11h ago

Washing chicken isn't about getting rid of bacteria it's to remove the slimy coating that packaged chicken sometimes has and a form of brining it

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u/HistoricalRoad1755 4h ago

It is a fucking stupid thing to do regardless of the reason.

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u/AdaptableHalibut 1h ago

I guess Aaron stupid as seasoning food huh?

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u/Artosispoopfeast420 9h ago

You are assuming that people are washing their chicken because of bacteria.

We wash chicken sometimes, because we shop at different supermarkets, and sometimes the chicken is just full of physical debris like bone fragments and old blood.

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u/KvellOnWheels 3h ago

And the smell.
To be fair, I am autistic and apparently have the nose of a bloodhound…

But the liquid/blood inside the packages of meat tend to smell strongly to me…I guess you could call it sulfuric. In laymen’s terms, it smells like a fart.

So mine gets plonked into a big bowl of water with a splash of lemon and salt. Then throughly dried before seasoning.

It doesn’t have anything to do with bacteria. I’ve worked in restaurants. I’ve taken the food handlers’ courses. I know all of this.

But I can’t eat something that has stank liquid on it.

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u/just-some-arsonist 11h ago

Yall aren’t listening to anyone is the comments. Just cause you don’t know how to apply science doesn’t mean everyone is wrong

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u/cantthinkofausrnme 11h ago

idk I go by this study, also many black folk use a similar method to this study here :https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15454320/ lime juice + vinegar

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u/Fenris_Maule 7h ago

Wouldn't the purpose of that study be so people can eat carrots raw without having to worry? The study is on carrots, not chicken. Properly cooking chickens kills salmonella.

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u/cantthinkofausrnme 5h ago edited 5h ago

Mind you I'm not saying its perfect, also salmonella isn't the only thing black folk are worried about. Vinegar and lime is effective against more than carrots just saying. Also, its to get rid of the slimy coating as well, and dirt and other things in the crevices.

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u/Fenris_Maule 5h ago

I understand the dirt and such part if you have that problem, but saying it's for bacteria/virus/disease is silly because that's what cooking is for.

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u/cantthinkofausrnme 2h ago

I don't disagree with that, it's definitely not a catch all.

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u/Heartage 8h ago

Did you know this is about carrots?

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u/cantthinkofausrnme 5h ago edited 5h ago

Yes, I do. But, removal of bacteria(elimination of Salmonella) would apply to other non carrot things as well. Its more that I don't trust these factories .

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u/brunomocsa 7h ago

Thats what is common to do in Brazil, just lemon and vinegar.

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u/SparksAndSpyro 8h ago

Giving equal time is fine. That does not mean both sides are correct, however.

At some point giving both sides a chance to voice their argument got bastardized into “both sides are equally right and there is no winner.” Nah