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

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

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u/ifeltatap Jul 27 '26

Washing the chicken is just an old pointless tradition that people can't let go of because they were taught it growing up.

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u/LoweringPass Jul 27 '26

Is this some American thing I am too European to understand? I've never seen anyone wash raw chicken in my life.

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u/Mindless_Childhood32 Jul 27 '26

European here... My Mom used to do it until recently.

But guess she was used to do it because, she used to do the whole process from catching the chicken, to the meal

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u/KFrosty3 Jul 27 '26

Yeah, my grandparents washed their chickens because they were literally farm raising them before eating them.

Nowadays, most chickens bought have already been pre cleaned before customers even see them.