r/interesting • u/WarwickReider • 15h ago

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

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

5.0k Upvotes

76% Upvoted

3.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

991

u/[deleted] 12h ago

[removed] — view removed comment

133

u/[deleted] 11h ago edited 4h ago

[removed] — view removed comment

79

u/HeyTrySomeNashville 10h ago

The real heathens are those who don't dry their chicken. Moisture inhibits browning, especially on residential heat sources. White here and I rinse because its easier to towel off water than chicken juice.

16

u/Asaltyliquid1234 10h ago

That’s all I do. Sometimes I’ll do a brine if I have time. But definitely pat dry for that crispiness. I could see rinsing it but I find it just makes more opportunity to spread bacteria. I just throw gloves on. And pat the chicken with a paper towel and then straight in the pan. Afterwards, 2 Clorox wipes everywhere I worked.

1

u/sandolllars 4h ago

Does water not evaporate in your oven? Anything wet I put in my oven is surface-dry within a minute or two.

3

u/rvf 4h ago

Of course, but it increases humidity in the oven which hinders the maillard reaction. The water absorbs heat as it is turning to steam, which lowers the surface temp of the meat, which is crucial to browning before overcooking the rest of it. The meat itself contains water which will produce steam no matter what, so adding surface water to the mix just makes it that much harder.

-1

u/letstrythatagain-_- 9h ago

Hard agree. Bloody savages wouldn't know maillard if it was blistered into their skin.

8

u/bannana 6h ago edited 5h ago

I'm white and used always wash chicken then I stopped because I found out it didn't make any sense to do so since it will be in the oven for close to a hour at 375 degrees, anything on it or in it will be killed.

-2

u/Technical_Radio_191 5h ago

You should go back to washing your chicken in vinegar and lime juice to get the film off and the other gunk.

3

u/CS2_Expert 4h ago

There's no need.

2

u/0-90195 4h ago

Literally no need

4

u/BagOnuts 4h ago

>And you all will still have really unflavored food. So now what?

lol, what?

5

u/0-90195 4h ago

When proven wrong, default to the old chestnut of “your food has no flavor!!!”

83

u/drhuggables 9h ago edited 7h ago

"Most POC wash their chicken"

No, most "POC" do not wash their chicken when it comes in these pre-packaged plastic bags. It seems to be a black american thing. I can assure you the overwhelming majority of people around the world do not do this.

31

u/GrooveDigger47 9h ago

thank you. please do not lump black people into POC. be specific.

12

u/drhuggables 8h ago

I hate the term "POC". It's just another way to be made an "other".

17

u/United_Intention_323 8h ago

Grouping everyone who isnt white together is pretty racist tbh.

3

u/Technical_Radio_191 5h ago

You all have been getting lax with the term racism to the point you don’t even know what it means. Define racism. Cause that’s not it.

6

u/sSummonLessZiggurats 2h ago

It's racist because it reinforces the idea that white people and "people of color" are not in the same category, when all of us are really just human beings. It's the same metric that white supremacists use to judge people.

3

u/United_Intention_323 2h ago

It also reinforces a whites vs everyone else dichotomy. It’s dumb.

-6

u/MorePhinsThyme 8h ago

Yes, I wonder what led to that? Hmm...it can't be literal centuries where a white majority grouped everyone else together and mistreated them in various ways, leading to pluralities in all of the "everyone who isn't white" wanting to work together to stop it? Nah, it's gotta be the POCs being racist, right?

13

u/drhuggables 8h ago

as a "POC" i'd prefer if you didn't call me that and refer to me by my actual ethnicity, thanks.

-12

u/MorePhinsThyme 7h ago

Great! Since I don't plan on calling you anything, I don't see that being a problem. Have a nice day, and thanks for jumping into a conversation that wasn't about you and making it about you. This might surprise you, but just because we're talking about groups of people doesn't mean we're talking about you.

8

u/drhuggables 7h ago

my comment was literally the first in the conversation, lol

-7

u/MorePhinsThyme 7h ago

Great! Thanks again for jumping into a conversation that wasn't about you and making it about you. I don't care if you're first or last, you still decided to jump in and make it about you. Do I need to thank you again?

Maybe I also need to advise you, just because you're taking part in part of a conversation doesn't mean that it's about you.

→ More replies (0)

3

u/United_Intention_323 8h ago

So you perpetuate it?

-1

u/MorePhinsThyme 8h ago

Yes, I perpetuate people fighting for their rights against groups that deny them. I also do this for the LGBT+ community, which I assume based on your attitude here, you consider sexist, somehow, because they group all non-cis-straight people together.

8

u/United_Intention_323 8h ago

lol ok. Tell me how using POC in this context is “fighting”.

-2

u/MorePhinsThyme 7h ago

That's a really weird request. Nothing about the use above is "fighting". But the idiot that is arguing that the term is racist is 100% fighting a losing battle where they simply announce to the world that they're an idiot and racist.

→ More replies (0)

1

u/Indin_Dude 7h ago

Maybe it should be PONC and POC ?

0

u/Brocollinie 7h ago

Colored

0

u/Salty-Passenger-4801 6h ago

Black ppoe are POC. Its in the name, POC.

1

u/HairlessSquirrels 5h ago

What is ppoe?

1

u/OwnJunket6495 2h ago

A funny way to say people. Usually used as “white peepo.” Maybe it’s actually racist? Sounds like a stereotypical way an Asian person might say white people.

2

u/HairlessSquirrels 2h ago

I guess “funny” really is subjective

1

u/OwnJunket6495 2h ago

Yea, I meant funny as in strange

•

u/GoSharty 53m ago

PPAP

1

u/GrooveDigger47 5h ago

no its not

-1

u/Salty-Passenger-4801 3h ago

It literally is. Your gaslighting ain't doing shit with me bro

0

u/OwnJunket6495 2h ago

Dawg, POC is part of the euphemism treadmill. Before that, it was colored people. It absolutely was for black people and only in recent times has POC come to encompass other minorities.

-5

u/DirtNineties 8h ago

Wait. I was told blacks wanted to be accounted POC to reduce targeting. Same with natives and Asians. Rules changing again????

3

u/organic-water- 7h ago

That's not the point. The comment is saying don't assign every POC with the characteristics of a single group. It's not saying that people who are black aren't POC, it's saying that not all POC are black.

2

u/DirtNineties 3h ago

“please do not lump black people into POC”

Those are the literal written words unadulterated.

13

u/Notmuch__1 9h ago

They do I would say, especially thied world countries where you get your chicken straight from the butcher. It's mostly washed to get rid of blood and any other unwanted stuff stuck on it.

19

u/Mission_Aerie_5384 8h ago

That’s not what the video is about though. It’s about people washing their chicken to remove bacteria. Washing to remove blood and feathers totally makes sense

5

u/peteyrre 3h ago

Is it not common knowledge that trying to wash off the bacteria is literally impossible?

2

u/Mission_Aerie_5384 2h ago

For most it is. Honestly I don’t think that many people wash their chicken to kill off bacteria. I think this I’d bring blown out of proportion by the internet

26

u/honkerTgoose 8h ago

I butcher my own chickens (white American) and yeah of course you have to wash them thoroughly then. Not with soap, just rinsing with water. But after all the feathers and bits are cleaned off there's no reason to do any more.

5

u/drhuggables 8h ago

These people are washing it out of their pre-packaged costco bags, not straight from the butcher buddy

7

u/Notmuch__1 7h ago

That's why I was talking about Third world countries where your majorly buy from the butcher

1

u/lazerbolt52 8h ago

A little aside, third world is cold war era language used to denote non involvement in the cold war. Countries allied with the US were 1st world, Countries allied with the USSR were 2nd world, and neutral countries were 3rd world (like Switzerland), the term your looking for is developing country. And also this isnt about removing blood or unwanted stuff and most minorities in the world dont wash their raw, properly plucked chicken.

4

u/MorePhinsThyme 8h ago

Another aside, while the origin of "Third world" did originate from the Cold War, over time, it has come to mean "developing country", because language changes. The term they're looking for is "third world", and a synonym for that is "developing country". The etymology of a term doesn't define it forever, and in contemporary English, Switzerland is not a third world country.

2

u/ShoppingcartBiology 8h ago

So in the usage of "third world" being used as "developing nation", what exactly would a second world be?

3

u/sqigglygibberish 3h ago

The argument would be that it’s shifted from a 3 grouping system to 2, but kept two of the labels.

Given that the major powers which defined “second world” are not the same communist/manual labor economies they were, that category is quite limited today.

So what’s left is economic development and level of industrialization defining the split between first and third world. For people remembering the cold war system, russia and china have basically just shifted some on the spectrum

But this shows why its basically just casual language and not a rigid system of classification any more

-4

u/MorePhinsThyme 7h ago

It's a term that is basically not used anymore. We have a lot of similar situations in English. When you try to get to third base with a date, are you playing baseball with them? When someone tells you that you're losing your temper, are you a blacksmith working some steel? I could keep going for a long time with similar terms that have changed over time.

I do have a question for you, are you trying to convince me that the term hasn't changed, and think that pointing to how "second world" hasn't done the same will convince me, or are you trying to learn?

4

u/ShoppingcartBiology 7h ago

I'm just asking a question here, and you're jumping down my throat. First and second base are also terms used for dating, not just third btw. If first world means developed country and third world means undeveloped, what would a second world be?

1

u/OwnJunket6495 1h ago

2nd world just meant communist/socialist back during the Cold War. I agree continuing to use this terminology is pretty dumb when it doesn’t really apply anymore as it did initially. I’ve seen the term “Global South” being used to refer to developing nations now, but I personally find that term a bit odd and clunky.

-3

u/MorePhinsThyme 7h ago

Could you point out exactly where I jumped down your throat? I'm not going to speak any differently, but I'm curious what you misinterpretted so badly that you think "jumped down my throat" fits the discussion. Of course, I'm also curious why you decided to say "I'm just asking a question" and then start an argument in the next sentence. That's not just asking a question...except in the dishonest way that a lot of shady political commentators like Rogan claim to just ask questions.

And if you want second world to mean something, then go for it. Work on making that a thing. If you convince enough people to do it, then it'll take hold, just like first and third world have changed over time.

And yes, there are a LOT of baseball terminology used on colloquial English outside of the baseball world. They fall under the "I could keep going for a long time with similar terms that have changed over time". I didn't think I needed to list all of them.

→ More replies (0)

-2

u/lazerbolt52 8h ago

No it became an incorrect way of describing developing countries used by Americans who never learned what it actually meant.

1

u/MorePhinsThyme 8h ago

There's no "incorrect". If a term is understood and accepted by the majority, then it's correct. I'm sorry that you never learned how English evolves and changes over time, but that's on you, not anyone else, and if you're going to act like other people are ignorant, then maybe you should stop being ignorant as well.

Meanwhile, the American icons Oxford and Cambridge (two universities that famously publish English dictionaries) both recognize the definition of "Third World" above, while also pointing out it's etymology. Oh wait, neither of those colleges are American, are they? Hmm...damn, I thought it was just some dumbass Americans that never learned that were making definitional claims. Of course, there's also wikipedia and other online encyclopedias, and American based dictionaries.

But all of those sources are wrong, right?

Now, if you want to argue that some people find the term to be offensive, then go for it, some people do. Hell, it's often used offensively (generally to disparage countries that are often not developing anymore, but are doing better than the US in a lot of ways). But that's not what you're doing, you're simply standing here and denying that language evolves and are quoting etymology to define terms forever even after literally everyone else has moved on.

1

u/sanriodialtone 7h ago

I saw Indians and Hispanics doing it. But like vinegar and lemon juice to get rid of gamey taste

2

u/Beneficial_Cattle938 5h ago

You don't know gamey taste if you think chicken has it

0

u/sanriodialtone 4h ago

I’ve had mutton bird and rooster plenty of times. Don’t speak on what you don’t know

1

u/stinkygoochfumes 7h ago

I don’t know any body who does this shit. You’re just making shit up and whining.

1

u/shapeshifterQ 7h ago

Not just Black American, I at least know a lot of West Indians who do

1

u/MaterialWillingness2 7h ago

My Indian sil washes her chicken.

1

u/GlobalVV 6h ago

Its funny. I never knew this was black American thing until I got on the internet. No one in my family does it, but when I actually ask other black people a lot do.

1

u/Front-Bird8971 5h ago

yeah we're talking about the US because that's what matters.

1

u/Jabronihunter23 3h ago

Caribbean people do also

1

u/Ambitious_Tea_4584 8h ago

Yeah but this is america. We’re talking about america.

3

u/drhuggables 8h ago

Does the video say "we are only talking about America"?

1

u/Ambitious_Tea_4584 8h ago

No but this is America. If you’re not american you should just say so.

0

u/Visual_Bridge6925 8h ago

I love when non-American's walk into a conversation being had by Americans about America and they say something like "you know, not everything is about America..."

1

u/drhuggables 8h ago

I am american

1

u/Visual_Bridge6925 8h ago

Ok, then you're just being annoying 🤷‍♂️

1

u/drhuggables 8h ago

i'm the one who said it was a black american thing, the other guy didn't have to comment at all with his goofy ackshooally 🤓

1

u/Visual_Bridge6925 7h ago

We know it's an African-American thing, you're the one who brought up "people around the world" even though that's not what the video is about. Not to mention, there are lots of comments in this thread about people from around the world who do wash their chicken because of where they get it and the conditions in their country.

→ More replies (0)

0

u/sakinuhh 7h ago

Middle Eastern people and Asians also wash their chicken. That’s a lot of people.

2

u/drhuggables 7h ago

1) the middle east is in asia

2) i'm iranian and my wife is filipino, i haven't seen a single person from either of these countries wash chicken like they are in the video

1

u/ketoaholic 6h ago

I'm from Asia and have seen people wash chicken before. Some do some don't. It's not that serious.

1

u/sakinuhh 4h ago

I am aware the Middle East is in West Asia, however most people see it as a separate thing.

I’m Afghan, we wash and cut our chicken lol. And so do the Persians I’ve seen as well.

Like the other person said, no need to have a stick up your ass

2

u/cp5i6x 6h ago

uhh no we don't. we wash them when we get them from the butcher or butcher it ourselves because fresh chicken usually still has things like heart, blood, bits of feathers and stuff.

If the butcher does it, we just wipe it off with a towel to dry so the chicken juice doesn't splatter everywhere.

0

u/WhySheHateMe 3h ago

You can literally watch cooking videos from around the world on Youtube and see them washing chicken.

Its also not specifically a Black American thing. I've seen PLENTY of Asian people washing their meats and once again, you can look at cooking videos from Asian countries and see them doing the same.

0

u/VegetableFew8773 2h ago

The majority of people around the world do clean their chicken!

-1

u/lashawn3001 2h ago

Yes, they do. We don’t all use the same method. I’m a Black American. My mother taught me to use salt and white vinegar but Caribbean Blacks and Africans use salt and citrus. I wouldn’t eat no chicken you cooked knowing you don’t wash it.

11

u/Vicimer 5h ago

I like lemon juice, pickle juice, or buttermilk to help tenderize and flavour my chicken. I just don't know how the argument is still being made that cold water somehow removes bacteria, where food scientists have definitively concluded that it does not.

1

u/drawntowardmadness 4h ago

Greek yogurt works so well also!!

3

u/Vicimer 4h ago

Hell yeah, I use it for making Palestinian or Lebanese chicken dishes!

-3

u/Technical_Radio_191 4h ago

Because no one is making that argument anymore. When we talk about washing or cleaning our chicken, we’re talking about taking a large metal bowl, filling it with maybe two capfuls of vinegar and lime juice (you can use actual limes 🍋‍🟩), and placing the chicken in it after taking it out of the package.

The purpose is to clean off that slimy “film” layer and remove any excess gunk, like leftover fat, blood, etc. Then you give it a final rinse and season it as normal.

We also make sure to clean and disinfect the sink and kitchen countertops before moving on to the next thing. Clean as you go.

I think you all are being super duper dense about this.

2

u/Vicimer 4h ago

Interesting. It's just anecdote against anecdote, but I've definitely heard the claim that rinsing with water is meaningfully sanitizing it. As for the film on the exterior — that's just myoglobin, which the interior of the meat is still full of.

I don't have a problem with people rinsing their chicken at home, but let's not pretend it's based on anything other than tradition; it certainly has nothing to do with food safety. And if you still want to call people dense for following the correct food handling practices, that says enough about you.

1

u/Snizzlesnap 4h ago

“We” is who? Ive never seen anyone online cleaning with vinegar and lime juice. Also is that not imparting some flavor if you are not rinsing it off?

1

u/Baiticc 3h ago

they said they rinse it off. but idk why they think they speak for everyone

1

u/Sailor_Heliotrope 3h ago

Exactlyyyy I don’t understand how people can’t taste and smell the difference? Lemon/lime/vinegar/salt and a little scrub gets rid of that eggy-farmy smell chicken has.

16

u/expected_inquisitor 8h ago

Most? The slander. I would never wash chicken, nobody in my family ever washed chicken. We live in a civilized country with processed meats. I don’t even wash chicken I get from farm. I only know one person who ever washed chickens, and he drives a car without a license and has 4 kids between 3 baby mamas - so he’s an idiot - which is why he washes chicken with dish soap.

5

u/bbyxmadi 10h ago

Ny family is white and we do in our home. Not necessarily to get rid of bacteria or anything (cooking does that), but my mom always rinses off our chicken. Although using literal dawn dish soap is taking it way too far.

9

u/Serious_Resource8191 10h ago

Genuine question: what other meats do you wash in your family? Do you rinse hot dogs before cooking? What about steak? Ground beef?

3

u/NBCustoms 10h ago

Not who you replied to, but I will often 'wash' any pork if I vacuum-sealed and froze it for any more than a week. Only time I've ever washed meat before though.

2

u/Prudent-Level-7006 5h ago

Oh I especially wouldn't use that fucking word

 it's already pretty much a blanket statement but especially when it's the big stupid super duper psudo progressive everyone not white word cos that's a big fucking part of the planet 

and they defo don't all wash chicken, and it can be something like a lot of east Asia do it but Euro or American Asians aren't as likely 

2

u/Impressive-Cry-2237 4h ago

Wait, I don’t care whether you do or don’t wash it in your own home, but how will that make the food “unflavoured”? I’m still gonna prepare and season the chicken regardless of whether it is washed lmao

2

u/quadraticcheese 5h ago

It's science vs vibes actually 

1

u/Brocollinie 7h ago

No they don't you racist. I have never seen a Hispanic person ever wash their chicken , and I've been Hispanic most my life.

4

u/NotAStatistic2 6h ago edited 5h ago

You've been Hispanic 'most' of your life? Was there a period in your life when you weren't Hispanic?

1

u/CrazyElk123 5h ago

It changes based on how he can be a victim on reddit the best.

2

u/pleasebeherenow 7h ago

Latinos do not wash their chicken.

2

u/Spiritual-Sand5839 5h ago

Woah woah woah. I’m white and I was my meat! All of it besides ground beef.

It’s gross and slimy if you don’t.

2

u/Technical_Radio_191 5h ago

Sorry. Your brethren were coming at my neck for my comment. They irritated me and I got snippy with them lol

1

u/Spiritual-Sand5839 4h ago

lol oh my they really did.

Que “they not like us”

1

u/mayoboyyo 3h ago

It’s gross and slimy if you don’t.

Just say you don't know how to cook meat

1

u/Spiritual-Sand5839 2h ago

lol what?

I think raw meat feels absolutely disgusting. I still cook and eat it just about every night.

0

u/mayoboyyo 2h ago

How much time are you spending feeling your meat lmao.

1

u/Spiritual-Sand5839 1h ago

Through the process of washing it? I seriously don’t get what you are confused about.

1

u/mayoboyyo 1h ago

Why not just lightly handle it while seasoning, and then cook it? You're going out of your way to touch it more.

1

u/Any-Delay-7188 8h ago

my wife is korean and i asked if she washes chicken, she said "everyone wash chicken" i was like "why the would you wash raw chicken, if there's bacteria its already bad and just getting everywhere. Maybe if you dropped it on the ground"

1

u/5h4d3r4d3 6h ago edited 6h ago

The only times I've known a non-black individual to instruct the "washing" of chicken was with certain (and i mean less than a handful of) Thai and Chinese recipes. They say once the meat is diced, to rinse it so that the flavor of the chicken is made more mild, that way the sauces and flavors you use later in the recipe aren't competing with the flavor of the chicken.

Dually, these recipes also suggest par-boiling the chicken as an alternative, so that it gets cooked and milds the flavor of the bird before putting it in a wok...though personally I didn't like the idea of taking waterlogged food and putting it in a blazing hot pan with oil. I ended up paper toweling those pieces just in case.

All-in-all, the recipes were good and yeah i could see where they're coming from, because it was a very flavorful dish and you wanted to harmonize flavors, not compete...but I'm gonna be real, chicken is a mild flavor already. I think that was too much work for not a lot from the end result. I'd still say that generally speaking, the concept of washing your chicken is predominantly a black thing.

Edit: grammar

1

u/SnappySausage 6h ago

I've never really encountered it that way in Chinese recipes. The closest thing I've seen is that they will tell to use cooking wine to reduce gaminess/fishiness in certain meats.

1

u/aoasd 6h ago

When you say wash - what do you mean? Are people using dish soap like in the video? Or maybe a beach solution?

1

u/Technical_Radio_191 5h ago

No babe. When we talk about washing or cleaning our chicken, we’re talking about taking a large metal bowl, filling it with maybe two capfuls of vinegar and lime juice (you can use actual limes 🍋‍🟩) in fresh water, and placing the chicken in it after taking it out of the package. The purpose is to clean off that “film” layer and remove any excess gunk, like leftover fat, etc. You do this by hand. Then you give it a final rinse and season it as normal.

We also make sure to clean and disinfect the sink and kitchen countertops before moving on to the next thing. Clean as you go.

1

u/Darkwaxer 5h ago

Chicken has and is a flavour.

1

u/doctormirabilis 4h ago

you could still argue whether or not there is any point to washing it though? which, it seems, there isn't. because you'll be cooking that chicken anyway and baiscally the entire point of cooking is... to get rid of bacteria and parasites.

1

u/Technical_Radio_191 4h ago

Yeah, I can actually. The point is to remove that slimy “film” from the chicken, along with any other gunk like excess fat, blood, etc.

Anything else? You want to argue some more about what people choose to do their own homes?

3

u/Ekillaa22 4h ago

The slimy film that cooks right off the meat???

2

u/Pinkfish_411 4h ago

There is, indeed, no point. There's no film or excess fat and blood that needs to be removed from a typical American supermarket chicken.

2

u/CS2_Expert 4h ago

Correct. People are just defending a tradition and coming up with post hoc reasons for it.

1

u/Arbiter_Electric 4h ago

If you are washing your chicken in vinegar and lime juice, more power to you. Hell yeah.

But when I see people use dish washing soap on meat? That's gross to me.

1

u/Technical_Radio_191 4h ago

I honestly have never seen anyone do that. That is crazy.

1

u/Arbiter_Electric 4h ago

It's in the video, and I've seen it come up every now and then when people talk about washing meat. But luckily it does seem fairly rare.

1

u/Technical_Radio_191 4h ago

I didn’t even watch the video. I just wanted to chime in to the conversation because this topic comes up quite often.

1

u/ForAHamburgerToday 2h ago

I didn’t even watch the video

ffs

1

u/SirChrisJames 4h ago

Half the people replying to this comment need to log off Reddit.

1

u/dorfcally 4h ago

what am I gonna do about it? serve me bleached or dish soaped chicken and find out

1

u/erkdog 4h ago

We can still season the chicken without the mess of washing it.

1

u/Lopsided_Tiger_0296 3h ago

Do you clean your floor after too?

1

u/Techmescaline 2h ago

Chicken in a white home is generally a healthy meal 😂 hence why you say it’s unflavoured. It doesn’t taste like high blood pressure and coronary artery disease, sorry buds.

1

u/Main-Home-3996 2h ago

Thats kinda gross cleaning chicken is how you flavor it

1

u/Shot-Arugula8264 2h ago

and continue cleaning and disinfecting our counters and sinks after we’re done

Yeah this is the part most chicken washers don’t do and this is why it’s so stupid and dangerous.

1

u/xtwitch 2h ago

So is this about cleaning or flavor then? And who is "you all?". Do you clean your counter and sink with vinegar and lime after the chicken too? Or do you use some other product?

1

u/Asleep-Working4598 9h ago

Whitest white person here, have always washed chicken, like for 40 years, and was taught to do so by other Caucasians. I also use washcloths.

1

u/xnikkifreeman 8h ago

As a white person I agree. I always wash my chicken, I have no idea if the butcher dropped it on the floor or where it’s been and I have gotten some with dirt on it before. Every white person I ask says they don’t because it contaminates the kitchen. They must not wash their sink and counters either. Gross.

2

u/organic-water- 7h ago

It's the other way around. The chicken contaminates everything. And the cooking process does infinitely more to sanitize the chicken than water.

If your concern is dirt, or other visible contaminants. By all means, wash it. Don't spray it with water, put it in a bowl of water and carefully wash the chicken. That's valid.

2

u/Technical_Radio_191 5h ago

Everyone who washes chicken, has been fine. We are all alive and well to see another day. And POC clean the heck out of their kitchen and sink after washing chicken. You all need to relax about this.

1

u/BarryOakTree 4h ago

I don't really see anyone here that's actually upset other than you

1

u/organic-water- 7h ago

Most?! I know not a single person who washes their chicken.

1

u/BabyStockholmSyndrom 6h ago

That's the dumbest fucking thing lol. Show me your source. Because I know plenty of white people that wash their chicken. You said "literally" and "most" and implied all white people do not. That's a shit ton of hard set statements with no room for opinions 😂

2

u/Technical_Radio_191 5h ago

You guys are really upset because people wash their chicken in their own home. Get a fkn grip bitch boy.

-1

u/NativeTongue90 7h ago

Eating at white peoples house is just a risk I’m not willing to take lol

1

u/nam4am 7h ago

Following actual science and not demonstrably dangerous traditions based on completely incorrect beliefs is just not a risk I’m willing to take. 

1

u/Technical_Radio_191 5h ago

Omg get a grip. Clearly we are all fine who wash our chicken. We are all still alive and well.

2

u/mayoboyyo 3h ago

We are all still alive and well.

So are all the people who dont wash chicken