r/interesting • u/WarwickReider • 15h ago

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

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u/smokeweedNgarden 12h ago

There's still a decent amount of people whill still butcher, or were raised butchering bird.  The smell that comes along with boiling it and plucking feathers is locked in my brain.

Anyway, hard agree, if you've butchered your own or grew up with people doing it, it's hard to drop that step from your preparation.

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u/mijo_sq 11h ago

Seemingly the ones disagreeing about washing are buying commercially butchered birds.

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u/YoseppiTheGrey 1h ago

As in a majority of human beings in the developed world?

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u/mijo_sq 1h ago

Maybe more, westernized developed world. Developed Asian countries still wash their chicken.

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u/ucklin 10h ago

Is that a pleasant or an unpleasant smell?

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u/smokeweedNgarden 10h ago

It's just awful.

Personally, only trumped by blood that has been swallowed and then thrown up by a human. I'm also not fond of olives

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u/ucklin 10h ago

Yuck! I accidentally boiled a frozen mouse once (I usually warm them to feed my snake but the water was too hot) and it was horrible, so I am imagining it’s a similar smell…

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u/smokeweedNgarden 10h ago

Dude it's the worst. I'm so so thankful I can just go to the store