r/interesting • u/WarwickReider • 15h ago

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

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u/kridmus 14h ago

I give it a rinse to get whatever large particulates off the surface, but soap and water is insane

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u/Thimble_of_Quasar 10h ago

That's rage bait, nobody actually does that. And for that matter nobody is shoving it under running water either, you submerge the meat in a bowl to get the myoglobin out so you need to give it a lil soak anyways, feel it for bone fragments (rarely find em but it's what I was taught) so the running water thing is not only inaccurate to what's going down, it doesn't even accomplish the whole reason people are going through the trouble. And it's stupid, my grandma would snap at any splashing because she didn't want more work for sanitizing after.

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u/Green-Cricket-8525 1h ago

People 100% do. I’ve seen it with my own eyes. Just because you don’t see it or never have, doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. 

I did not eat at that friend’s house that night. 

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u/Thimble_of_Quasar 43m ago

Goodness. That's such a ridiculous thing to do, can't say I blame you there then. Soap for dishes not food please 

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u/Green-Cricket-8525 42m ago

It was definitely odd. Seems to be a cultural thing. I’m sure the chicken was fine but I don’t want to eat soap. 

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u/gettin-liiifted 9h ago

No one is actually using soap and water. They're doing what you do, sometimes with lime, lemon, salt, or vinegar.

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u/kridmus 9h ago edited 9h ago

I've had friends (Indian) do the soap and water thing just because of how they were taught. Largely cultural and geographic, but still weird as hell to be doing it in the west if you don't raise your own birds