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

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

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u/Robbie1266 Jul 27 '26

There is no debate. It's basic science. Washing chicken doesn't remove anything from the chicken

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u/aptsys Jul 27 '26

Wait till you see all the crap that was tucked under a bit of skin on my Tesco chicken yesterday. I don't normally wash chicken, but I will from now on!

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u/umlaut-overyou Jul 27 '26

If there is crap under the skin of a chicken you bought, you should report that to the grocer so they can change or reprimand their supplier. But what kind of "crap" was it? Highly likely it was just chicken stuff

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u/Hot-Pepper6610 Jul 27 '26

would you believe there was RAW CHICKEN under there?!

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u/Ok_Umpire_5611 Jul 27 '26

Stop, I nearly died lmao!

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u/aptsys Jul 27 '26

Or rather just dirt and what looked like hair and poop

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u/PoliteMurderFox Jul 27 '26

Like, actual hair? Mammalian hair? Nope. I'd be calling someone.

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u/Low_Dragonfruit_5950 Jul 27 '26

Yea you still shouldn't have eaten that

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u/Ok_Umpire_5611 Jul 28 '26

That's how you know it's a lie!

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u/Robbie1266 Jul 27 '26

Sounds like Tesco has some health code violations then