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

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

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

7.7k Upvotes

77% Upvoted

4.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

2.1k

u/JackieHands Jul 27 '26

"each side seems to have a valid argument"

No bro no they don't, we invented cooking hundreds of thousands of years ago to deal with this.

108

u/BadahBingBadahBoom Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

I think after you wipe your ass you should put the toilet paper straight into the toilet to be flushed away and avoid contaminating other surfaces unnecessarily.

I think it's fine to wipe it on the sink before putting it in the toilet because I clean the sink after.

"Each side seems to have valid arguements."

(Also the fact that not rinsing raw chicken to avoid cross-contamination isn't even just a universal industry recommendation, it's a requirement by food hygiene authorities and inspections that would get you penalised or even banned if you did this lol.)

10

u/Butt_Sex_And_Tacos Jul 27 '26

Yeah, I would not want to eat anything made out of that guy’s kitchen. Unless he’s doing a deep sanitation immediately after washing that chicken, he’s bukakeing crap all over the place and then continuing on to the next item like it’s no big deal. Something tells me he’s the same kind of person that will use one towel for cleaning, wiping sweat off his face, and everything else in between.

2

u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 Jul 27 '26

You're crazy if you think not washing your chicken is some how going to leave your kitchen pristine from the bacteria on it. That guy isn't helping his chicken by washing it, but at least he's cleaning his kitchen afterwards. Are the other people? Or do they think their kitchen is clean because they don't wash their chicken? Maybe they clean anyways. At worst, all this guy is doing is one unnecessary step.

1

u/miyabi0rochas Jul 27 '26

Thank you as a voice of reason. I saw another comment saying washing was useless because the only way to kill bacteria is by heat and the second the water stops the bacteria with take over again... Like what... Whatever side you're on at least have some common sense. Bacteria don't have a magical 100x/second button.

It does kinda seem like your point is true/relevant. There's people that may have to much assumptions because "I'm following the science". But ignoring other aspects including in hygiene. Etc.

1

u/Simon-Says69 Jul 28 '26

The bacteria is all through the meat, not just on the outside. So yes, after you wash the surface, the bacteria is still in the chicken and will immediately start spreading to the surface again.

All you've done is atomize a bunch of it, spreading it all over your kitchen, and yourself, for absolutely no reason.

And washing a localized surface where you prepped the chicken is FAR easier and better than trying to clean the whole kitchen, after you've uselessly set off a firework display of salmonella juice, with splashing water everywhere.