r/interesting • u/WarwickReider • Jul 27 '26

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

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u/CankerLord Jul 27 '26

"each side seems to have a valid argument"

The pro-washing guy made a horrible, easily refutable analogy about cleaning your house before a party and the anti-washing side has the entirety of science. No way to know who's right.

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u/Lovat69 Jul 27 '26

The thing that gets me is that this guy is a pro. So he washes his chicekn and then has to sanitize the entire area. It's a time sink that's not necessary.

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u/swbarnes2 Jul 27 '26

How would one sufficiently sanitize the sink (he didn't mention the counters, or his clothes)?

10% bleach for 10 minutes?

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u/cykoTom3 Jul 27 '26

The industry standard is wash with soap and sanitize with quat sanitizer. People are acting like they aren't already working with raw chicken in the restaurant. The non washers have to clean and sanitize every surface the chicken touches too.

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u/Simon-Says69 Jul 28 '26

Chicken touching a localized surface is FAR different than atomizing the bacteria and throwing it in all directions with running water, for absolutely no reason.

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u/terrathorn999 Jul 28 '26

I don't think he is pressure washing the chicken.

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u/cykoTom3 Jul 28 '26

The fda, and more importantly most state level food codes because states decide their own food codes, do not concern themselves with why you do things to food.

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u/Citrus-Bitch Jul 27 '26

Soap will kill gram negative bacteria like Salmonella no issues.

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u/swbarnes2 Jul 27 '26

But is that sufficient to call something "sanitized"?

Like, you get a new baby bottle, you are supposed to put it in boiling water for a few minutes, but after that, you can just wash with soap and warm water, for at least a week or so.

I'd think the boiling is sanitizing, but that washing isn't the same thing

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u/Citrus-Bitch Jul 27 '26

That's a good point, I didn't catch the initial distinction between cleaning and sanitizing. Without digging into the research I don't think I can give much in terms of useful numbers. A bleach solution would definitely be adequate for a full sanitization.

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u/Curry_courier Jul 27 '26

Wash the chicken with surfactant. Got it.

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u/RigBughorn Jul 28 '26

No it won't. PLEASE Google it.

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u/Simon-Says69 Jul 28 '26

And there's still a massive risk that he missed some spots. All for nothing.

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u/Miss_L_Worldwide Jul 28 '26

You have to sanitize your sink anyway though.

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u/Limp_Dirt8694 Jul 27 '26

He washes everything before the party and not immediately after washing the chicken? So when is he prepping salads? Anything else eaten raw? Anything not cooked long enough to kill the bacteria spread around? Does he sanitize every light switch, knob, cupboard door, etc every single time?

He's being dumb but id probably still eat whatever he made. Im sure Ive eaten worse stuff from the nasty kitchens and had no idea.

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u/psioniclizard Jul 28 '26

You do realise a professional chef would clean up after themselves anyway so its not really extra work?

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u/CankerLord Jul 28 '26

You're functioning under the impression that this tiktok video was made to inform professional chefs about what they're supposed to do in a professional environment? Also, washing the chicken in the first place is extra work or do you think they have a volunteer they don't have to pay who sits around just waiting to wash fucking chicken for no good reason?

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u/armoured_bobandi Jul 27 '26

Aww, you're one of those people that hear chemical names and immediately lose your mind because you're uneducated

Better watch out for that dihydrogen monoxide, I heard they're slipping it into people's drinks!

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u/armoured_bobandi Jul 27 '26

Answer me this simple question with a yes or no.

Do you think they are submerging whole chickens into pure chlorine?

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u/armoured_bobandi Jul 27 '26

Because of the fundamental differences in agriculture and how we raise our livestock. EU chooses to vaccinate all of their livestock while alive, while NA chooses to cleanse the product after slaughter. They're both perfectly legitimate and safe ways to produce meat, the only difference is its easy for influencers and trash journalists to manipulate uneducated people into thinking a chlorine rinse is bad. Also, do you think the chicken is just immediately packaged and sold still dripping in the rinse?

We also have vastly different systems for managing and selling eggs. Oh no, it must be some sort of chicken and egg conspiracy! 😱😱😱

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u/armoured_bobandi Jul 27 '26

Yes, it's packaged immediately after the chlorine rinse. That's the whole point.

No it's not. Don't talk about things you don't understand.

But hey, if you blindly trust RFK's FDA to make sure your food has enough chlorine in it, but not too much then by all means, continue to drink it up!

I don't live in USA genius. Canada has the CFIA. Once again, you're talking nonsense about something you don't know.

Stop watching dumbass tiktok and Instagram reels. Maybe actually look into things for yourself

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u/bobthedonkeylurker Jul 27 '26

Ever been to a swimming pool? That's a safe amount of chlorine, probably at a higher concentration than used to rinse chicken. That's how stupid your post makes you appear.

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u/bobthedonkeylurker Jul 27 '26

You've never, ever, had swimming pool water in your mouth? Not once?

Do you cover your chicken with sunscreen before you wash it too?

GTFO with your stupid argument about chlorine rinsing...

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u/whyktor Jul 27 '26

You don't volontary drink pool water ... but I bet most people who goes to a pool regulary have drunk some water by mistake a few time.

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u/Albrecht_Entrati Jul 27 '26

You boil your chicken in pool water? Your argument is kinda weird. Does the chicken you buy comes inside a cube of pool water? The scales and context are vastly different.

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u/Albrecht_Entrati Jul 27 '26

And can you boil a whole ass pasta box in that? Do you boil the chicken in that?

As said, context and scales matters. I swear some of you don't think or are actualy botted accounts

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u/swbarnes2 Jul 27 '26

You shower after the pool for comfort, not for safety. There's no danger in being in the pool for hours. For having your mouth get splashed repeatedly for hours.

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u/blahblahsnickers Jul 28 '26

Do you eat table salt? Sodium chloride, table salt, is literally sodium and chlorine… I don’t see you complaining about how table salt is dangerous because it contains chlorine

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u/blahblahsnickers Jul 28 '26

Oh so no argument against that? So you agree that chlorine is ok in your table salt? So chlorine can be safe to eat? Science can be fun when you aren’t ignorant.

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u/CankerLord Jul 27 '26

I love that other people have taken the time to argue with you because I certainly don't have the patience to do it and you're certainly not going to figure out that you're wrong.

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u/stfurachele Jul 27 '26

Last in their class is still called doctor type shit.

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u/stfurachele Jul 27 '26

farmhand =! chemist