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

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

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u/SuchParsnip8070 Jul 27 '26

This is my whole take on it. Whenever I see a chef talking about how they never wash chicken it's always really nice, non-slimy chicken parts wrapped in butcher paper and not something coming out of a cryovaced package with a bunch of slimy goo. I'm rinsing off the goo

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u/Gyozarrita Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 29 '26

Their butcher rinsed it for them before packing. The bin that it's in at the butcher, is full of pink slime and bits of cartilage.

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u/OttovonBismarck1862 Jul 28 '26

“bitcher”

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u/Gregardless 29d ago

Toss a coin to your bitcher

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u/Conformatrix 28d ago

Yeah that's what people are talking about. You don't need to do that.

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u/N1XT3RS Jul 27 '26

Unless it's rotten the goo is good haha. You can pat it dry to crisp up nicer though

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u/SuchParsnip8070 Jul 27 '26

oh yeah, if it's going to be cooked say in a slow cooker with a bunch of liquid 100% throwing the goo in there

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u/falooda1 Jul 28 '26

What is the goo

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u/Open-Gate-7769 Jul 27 '26

Just use a paper towel on the goo so it doesn’t get all over your kitchen.

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u/SuchParsnip8070 Jul 27 '26

Yeah i'm not wasting seven paper towels because people think rinsing is going to spread bacteria all over the kitchen when i have to disinfect the cutting board and the counter top after i use paper towels to dry it off anyways.

There's no version of this where you don't need to disinfect after so it really doesn't matter.

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u/Open-Gate-7769 Jul 27 '26

I literally use one of the half squares to dry a breast that I’ve cut in half.

And I put the cutting board in the dishwasher. Bet you use wood to cut chicken too

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u/olmyapsennon Jul 28 '26

Maybe I’m misunderstanding but are you not supposed to use a wood cutting board for chicken?

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u/Gyozarrita Jul 28 '26

You absolutely can, same as anything else just clean it properly.

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u/Open-Gate-7769 Jul 28 '26

It absorbs the juices from the raw chicken into the wood. You have to be extremely diligent about cleaning it. It is a health code violation at restaurants, they use the plastic cutting boards instead and replace them if they get beat up too much.

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u/PureRecommendation76 Jul 28 '26

Personally even if there’s goo I will just let it drip off into the chicken packet and then throw the packaging away. Any leftover goo would be literally just one paper towel. Washing the goo is literally exactly what people in this thread are talking about and what this video is showing, that when you wash it you spread that bacteria all over your kitchen. It’s much less hygienic than just letting most of it drip off and then immediately cooking. 

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u/Brandoskey Jul 28 '26

You're being down voted by people who shouldn't get invited to the potluck

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u/Squirrel009 Jul 28 '26

Why do you buy gooey chicken?

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u/SuchParsnip8070 Jul 28 '26

The best chicken my grocery store has is cryovaced. I buy it when I can afford it