Posted on 06/17/2014 2:23:20 PM PDT by rickmichaels
The U.K.'s Food Standards Agency (FSA) is warning consumers against washing raw chicken.
The FSA dedicated Food Safety Week 2014 to raising awareness about how to cook chicken safely. It came up with the slogan "Don't Wash Your Chicken," after an online survey found 44% of adults wash chicken before cooking.
An FSA flyer explains that raw chicken contains campylobacter, the most common cause of food poisoning in the U.K., and if a chicken is washed before it's cooked the bacteria spreads onto hands, work surfaces, clothing and cooking equipment through splashing water droplets.
The FSA says removing germs or dirt is the most commonly cited reason for washing chicken, but the agency says any bacteria on a chicken will be eliminated when it's cooked.
"Although people tend to follow recommended practice when handling poultry...our research has found that washing raw chicken is also common practice," FSA chief executive Catherine Brown told BBC. "That's why we're...raising awareness of the risks of contracting campylobacter as a result of cross-contamination."
"Just a tenth of the cells of our bodies are human. Most of the rest belong to bacteria (although a few fungi, mites and worms leaven the mix)."
I guess they cannot figure out to wash the chicken under the sink faucet then transfer it to a plate or board before cooking then wash where the chicken has touched. I wash poultry and have never had water droplets slung ever which a way around the kitchen.
Stop egging people on.
I hate to break it to these geniuses, but that’s why you disinfect the countertop, sink, etc., and wash hands after preparing raw meat.
To each his or her own, I guess. I cook that way. Hubby loves that I do, makes a lot less mess to clean up after we eat.
“Kosher salt. Wet chicken, rub kosher salt all over, inside and out, and rinse. Itll kill everything.”
Not only that, but salting the bird the night before, rinsing thoroughly, dusting the cavity with sage, then stuff with celery, carrot & onion (discarded after cooking) results in moist tender roast chicken with no dry white meat.
You know there is a recipe for dishwasher salmon. I've never tried it.
And ya can’t go swimmin’ in a watermelon patch!
(But you can be happy if you’ve a mind to!)
Oh, NOMS!
BINGO! Like a camp...leave it better than you found it.
“Be careful with the comments on this thread or they might pullet.”
“Don’t egg people on. “
I was going to say something obvious, but you made me chicken out.
As long as people get paid by the government (in this case, Britain’s) to scare people about literally everything they do, the scaring will never cease.
Don’t listen, the british don’t know how to cook anything and make it fit to eat!
Cook’m first and then pluck’m.
DON’T EAT THE FEATHERS!!
You have to stay a breast of the thread or the posters will fly the coop. You can’t catch a rebel, but you can cacciatore.
Beer. Good for everything.
TC
“Dont listen, the british dont know how to cook anything and make it fit to eat!”
My Welsh Grandmother cooked everything until it turned gray, Blees her soul. Gray meat, gray vegetables, everything gray! There was nothing left alive, including the flavor!
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