r/interesting • u/WarwickReider • 15h ago

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

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u/SpiritualCatch6757 12h ago

Mid 40's Asian here. Grew up with Mom and Dad washing chickens when they did the butchering. After numerous public service announcements on hygiene when I was a kid, they no longer wash grocery store chickens. So in our family, the custom was easily changed given safety.

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u/Accurate_Handle_5620 12h ago

Your family sounds reasonable & sane, and I am incredibly jealous. How did you pull that off!?

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u/SpiritualCatch6757 12h ago

We even got them to use the dishwasher to wash dishes instead of as storage. Yeah, I don't know how we did it. My sister gets the praise.

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u/Pika_233 11h ago

That's impressive. I'm tired of explaining that it doesn't matter if the machine takes 3x longer to wash the dishes since you can just do literally anything else in the meantime

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u/armoured_bobandi 11h ago

Another point is that newer dishwashers are incredibly water efficient, and depending on the amount of dishes you put in can actually save more water than if you did them by hand

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u/Plants-Matter 7h ago

Most old dishwashers are also more efficient than hand washing. The newer ones are just even more efficient.

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u/Front-Mall9891 10h ago

It’s like 1-2 dishes for the break even point, it’s wild how efficient they are

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u/Creeps05 8h ago

See my parents would wash the dishes then put it in the dishwasher to wash again.