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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Ever been on a fishing boat? Don’t care if it is commercial or private.... food sanitation issues are not on the list of things to do.
Freshly machine plucked chickens are washed at the processing plant in what some call fecal soup, then dried off and wrapped. I roast a lot of whole chickens and they get rinsed off and the kidneys removed along the backbone. Just don’t spray water all over the place when washing the bird.
Why did the chicken wash the road?
I bought some chicken a while back... When I took it out of the package, the underside had a big black and white splotch of poop. I’m washing the chicken.
Saw a 60 minutes (20 years ago gimme a break).They tested about a dozen items in a kitchen for bacteria. They tested counter tops, sink, silver and pots and pans in their cabinets and also several foods. The item with the least tested contamination was the raw chicken.
You’re the engineer - you tell us!
I may be pilloried, but I have never washed my chickens...Therefore, I can’t recall EVER having anyone sick at my table from eating chicken cooked in any way.
In the meantime, I think God kept our ancestors alive REGARDLESS of the germs, bacteria, and otherwise deadly things that could have killed lots of folks.
We’re here because our ancestors were strong enough to combat whatever illness came their way.
Every bird I cook, I run water over it, rub kosher salt all over it, then rinse the salt off. Never had a problem.
The salt kills all of the germs -so I’ve been taught.
I’ve always used hot water not cold and I don’t spray the water all over the counter and myself. I think I’ll continue doing just what has worked well over the years.
It might, but even if it doesn't all the germs will die in the oven anyway.
Lynne Rossetto Kasper washes her chicken and that’s good enough for me.
What’s all this fuss about lashing your pickings.
If you don’t lash down your pickings they’ll blow out of the back of your truck.
Oh, is that what the kids are calling it these days.
It’s my chicken and I will wash it as long as I want to.
Yep..
Thinking the very same thing....
I or my parents or grandparents never washed chicken. Never saw a reason to.
If your method of washing is spraying anything you’re doing it wrong. Nothing bad happens with a low pressure rinse off of things before you cook them.
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