Posted on 08/26/2013 3:13:43 PM PDT by SMGFan
Generations of American cooks are wrong. They learned their wrongity wrongity wrong habits from their parents, or from public television’s Julia Child. Their terrible, filthy habit is rinsing poultry before cooking. Public health experts estimate that as many as 90% of Americans do it, and they want us to cut it out.
Poultry-washing makes intuitive sense: you don’t know where that bird has been or what kind of bacteria are crawling on the outside. Julia Child herself admitted that washing a chicken before roasting it felt cleaner, even if the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the government agency in charge of making sure that our meat doesn’t kill us, said that there are no bacteria on the outside of a chicken that roasting won’t kill.
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IBTTH
In before the thread hijack.
They are slimy, too. I’m washing mine. They can leave the damn feathers on too if they want to....
MUST.
KEEP.
FROM.
MAKING.
OFFCOLOR.
JOKE.
If I had a nickle.....
Do like my Dad did the one time he had to change my diaper, take it outside and take the hose to it (and stand back).
I almost posted something literal-minded and vapid about cooking chicken, but I’ve been on FR almost 11 years and I knew better.
Funny headline bump.
Chicken washing is racist just like when Paula Deen shot Trayvon.
Win.
Since I no longer trust anything the government says and will always assume they are lying to me (for whatever reason), I will continue to rinse chicken before cooking.
I sure am glad to find this out now, after having cooked chickee for aver 30 years. I never washed the chicken first, it seemed “dirty” to do so. My instinct was correct.
My favorite two words together: “Chicken Sushi!”
Aside from the cramps, fever, and uncontrollable diarrhea, what’s so bad about Salmonella, anyway?
Slimy is what I was thinking. I’ve got to wash that off. I then use bleach to clean the sink and wipe down the counter top. I really don’t care if some bacteria jumps up on the windowsill while I’m washing my chicken.
What about the blood, slime and bits of gunk from the processor that handled your bird after scratching his butt?
Couldn't I make just one little joke about this?
Mmmmmmmm... hot tub.....
-PJ
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