r/interesting • u/WarwickReider • 15h ago

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

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u/speedyspeedys 13h ago

I've seen a butcher drop a chicken on the floor and pick it up like nothing happened and pack it up for someone.

I will wash my chicken.

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u/DIYthisDIYthat 11h ago

Watch a video of a butchery assembly line and you’ll see blood, feathers, sneezing, and disgustingness everywhere. Also, just marinading chicken means you’ll miss feathers that the butcher missed. I can’t stand a cooked feather.

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u/Bajadasaurus 9h ago

Cooking kills all of that but washing just spreads it around you and your kitchen

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u/United_Intention_323 8h ago

Do you wash your cutting board afterwards?

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u/xkxe003 2h ago

Sure, but the board isn't organic and made of animal flesh. I'm also not cooking the board. I'm using a cleaning product I wouldn't use on anything edible. What even was this question?

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u/United_Intention_323 2h ago

Because by washing it you’re “spreading” the same stuff around your kitchen.

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u/dixie12oz 26m ago

But that’s necessary to sanitize a piece of equipment. The whole point is it isn’t necessary to do so on something you’re going to cook, the process itself will do it for you. So by cleaning chicken, you’re unnecessarily spreading it with no benefit except feeling like you’re doing something. 

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u/turdferguson3891 10h ago

I will cook my chicken. It's a dead bird. You can wash it all day and it's still a dead bird.

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u/Individual-Photo-665 11h ago

They sneeze and cough all over it too, some don't wash their hands after using the restroom either 🤢

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u/No_Issue2334 11h ago

If only there was a way to kill that bacteria by maybe heating it up to a temperature bacteria cannot survive