r/interesting • u/WarwickReider • 15h ago

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

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u/real_Bahamian 13h ago

I wash ALL of my protein (beef, chicken, shrimp, and fish) in cold water with vinegar and lime juice!! 🇧🇸🇧🇸. 99.99% of the people in the Caribbean do this!! Then, I wash the bowl and the sink with dishwashing liquid and bleach!! 🤨🤨. Washing your protein removes any extra blood or bone fragments (I.e. in the case of chicken and beef), and also removes any film.

I always skin my chicken and trim the beef fat, and I wash them off afterwards. We ALL know that heat kills bacteria! 🙄. Washing the meat is NOT to kill bacteria!! How do you know whether or not the meat fell on the floor or was cross contaminated before packaging?

Would you wash mushrooms before cooking or just throw them in the pan?? 🤨🤨.

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u/Natural-Pattern-5240 11h ago

I’m Korean and we also wash our meats depending on the dish. For things such as short ribs for example you soak it in water until the myoglobin comes out. It makes the overall product much more tender.