Posted on 05/03/2019 6:35:58 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Don’t wash your raw chicken! Washing can spread germs from the chicken to other food or utensils in the kitchen. https://go.usa.gov/xmTqz
The agency recommended placing raw chicken in a disposable bag before placing it in the shopping cart or refrigerator, washing hands with soapy water after handling it, using a separate cutting board to handle it, and never placing cooked food or fresh produce on the same surface as uncooked chicken.
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I do all those things already, but I’m NOT going to stop washing chicken! That’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard for quite a while. Of COURSE the sink and my hands, etc., get contaminated from water splashing around. So I clean it up, afterwards. DUH. If schools actually taught any biology except sex ed, people would know this stuff already.
My sister told me to stop washing raw chicken a few years ago.
And since the stats are derived from speculative data....the resulting "cure" is worthless.
In other words.....Salmonella is not a plague. Cooking is the big factor and being clean in the kitchen. Wash your hands and wipe the counter. I'm 75....I know no one who has died from Salmonella.
You should try cooking it instead of washing it. More effective, and doesn’t spread bacteria around your sink and counter.
a zip line with some bicycle handlebars
Our daughter and S_I_L have a couple of acres with some nice trees, I scrounged up a couple of hundred feet of 3/8 cable...
And I like your handlebar idea!
Have a nice flat bar from a mountain bike in stock...
For the grandkids.
We lost a couple friends along the way as well. Two adults got killed in front of my house on separate occasions when horses they were on got spooked and ran into the road. The speed limit was 40 but people typically drove about 60. My parents made us walk our horses across the road to the trails on the other side. Then we would ride the horses into town to get ice cream cones at the "Little Holland" hamburger stand.
The side street across from my house went up to the concrete factory and had a dirt embankment that formed a perfect bicycle jump. There was a long hill that went down to the embankment that allowed you to get up to 20 mph or more. You could fly almost completely across the road. It was a miracle that no kids got hit by a concrete truck... They eventually put chain link fence on both sides of the road after some close calls.
Pat it dry and don’t get hysterical.
I like to marinate my chicken. After defrost if frozen it goes right to the bag of marinates. No washing chicken required and the heat of cooking does the job. Washing the utensils, countertops and hands is basic 101 stuff.
Government wants us safe from germs but not dangerous illegal entrants.
Always salt and rinse, or place raw chicken in a brine solution for an hour and rinse, before breading, cooking etc. Kills bacteria, adds flavor, and helps the meat retain moisture. But I also rinse off the chicken out of the package before all that, removing the little specks of “schmutz”, and think the “experts” cited in this article are FOS.
My daughter gifted me a turkey fryer, I love it!!
A neighbor/fireman told me of the MANY turkey fires he had attended.
Usually inside a garage.
A coworker does them on the third-floor balcony of his condo!
I just bolted a little pulley on the center of the bars and strapped the cable between two trees... The biggest problem we ran into was that some dogs had pooped in the landing zone which we didn't notice until afterward. My grandparent's neighbors had a similar setup in their field when I was growing up. Their field sloped down so they didn't need an extension ladder at the launch spot to get good speed.
Cooking, like using alcohol gel to clean your hands, kills germs, but it does NOT remove debris or the dead germs it kills. Knowing how unclean some of the people at the processing plant might be, plus the fact that it is pretty common for chicken to carry salmonella, I’m going to play it safe.
I’m thinking this is a perfect application for a 1/10 dilution of Dakin’s solution.
Standard Dakin’s solution is 90% water, 10% Clorox bleach, with some baking soda for buffering.
Dilute standard Dakin’s by a factor of 10, and it becomes 99% water, 1% bleach, and is a still highly effective germicidal agent.
Every municipal water supply uses chlorine, all our grocery store vegetables are rinsed in a weak chlorine solution, and Clorox is an effective SHTF water sterilizer, making contaminated water save to drink with 20 drops of standard Clorox per gallon.
The diluted Dakin’s solution for washing your chicken would be around 4 teaspoons per gallon.
NOTE - I have not tried this, but unless corrected, I see no reason why it would not be safe and effective. Give me some feedback!
raw chicken, especially since I’ve started using them as bedding.
My dogs find the idea very exciting!
They are Australian Shepherds, very smart and sitting next to me reading the comments.
They insist I say some nice about your bedding!
I kosher salt my chicken. I’m not even Jewish. I just know smart and cheap when I see it.
God knows what's on the chicken from the slaughtering process and the somalis who are working at the meat processing plant.
I'll continue to wash my chicken, as I always have, thankyouverymuch.....
Is that what the kids are calling it nowadays?
Back when a hoe was a hoe
Coke was a coke
And crack’s what you were doing
When you were cracking jokes
Back when a screw was a screw
The wind was all that blew
And when you said I’m down with that
Well it meant you had the flu
I miss back when
I miss back when
I miss back when
The stupidity about this thread is that if you have a chicken that is carrying campylobacter, it also may contain salmonella, clostridium perfringens, and other bacteria. But only in a raw state. If you use gloves, and do not splash the liquid of the chicken around, and clean up the bowl, utensils, and surface, according to the CDC cooking to a temp of over 165 degrees internal kills all the bacteria.
Therefore, it is not advisable to eat raw chicken and not clean up like you should and would anyway. Otherwise, eating raw chicken is going to give you these bacterias whether you wash the thing or not. And chickens are a dirty animal. I don’t wish to eat waste or dirt with my sterilized chicken from the oven. So, like you, we wash the thing before consuming it cooked. Never had the guts to eat one raw. Closest I came was shooting one in the wild and cooking it over a campfire when I got tired of K’s in northern Florida in the mid 70’s. I washed it out in the creek after plucking and cleaning it. Wasn’t too bad, but I was sick of rations.
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cutting boards (non-porous)
I had a heavy maple end grain cutting block and the great and glorious government claimed it harbored GERMS!
So we switched to a white sanitary plastic cutting board.
And guess what?
Turns out the plastic is worse than the wood!!!
Plastic cutting boards, Cliver found, are easier to sanitize. But cutting on them also leaves lots of grooves where bacteria can hide. Wood is tougher to sanitize, but it’s also (often) tougher in general – you won’t find as many deep scratches in the surface.
“Hardwoods, like maple, are fine-grained, and the capillary action of those grains pulls down fluid, trapping the bacteria – which are killed off as the board dries after cleaning,” says Ben Chapman, a food safety researcher at NC State
https://news.ncsu.edu/2014/09/cutting-boards-food-safety/
Bubonic plague, anyone ?
I had the plague shot a few times.
Not to worry.
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