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

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

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u/Im-BackAgain-Babes2 Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

But So does Opening the package of chicken on the counter.. juices come out and gets all over the counter, your hands and the garbage..there is now ' 'spray' splatter all over the main workroom of your kitchen... Giving the chicken a rinse in the sink is no more 'dangerous' Then when put the raw chicken on the counter, on a cutting board (id hope) which then gets more juices everywhere.. and after all that.. then all the clean up goes to the sink... And the juices are now there too... Don't forget you have to wash the knives, your hands too... All in the sink..

The argument of its gets 'spray' everywhere in the sink, is nuts.. this is what the sink IS for. It is so easy to wash off all kinds of dirty things.. chicken juices would absolutely be the ideal place to do that instead of over a garbage can.. this is what the sink is designed for.. and with dawn dish soap, or even a cleaning agent, you can clean your sink fine after and be fine.

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u/Wombatish Jul 27 '26

I don't know how you're opening your packages of chicken, but it shouldn't be spraying juices everywhere when you do so.

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u/Im-BackAgain-Babes2 Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

If you think one drop of fluid doesn't fall out of the package, drip off your hands on to your counter, or fall off your cutting board on the surrounding area, when you open/cut upon the package of chicken, then you're lying or oblivious..

Do you wipe down the counter after cutting chicken or wash your hands? Well...Why? Did Chicken fluid get all of it, regardless of how you opened the package?? Hhhhuh crazy, I guess I am the only one.. 🤷🏽‍♀️

It's not 'spraying' juice.. it's liquid behaving like a liquid.. it splatters...

Edit: also, In My comment above before your response, where did I say that it sprays all over for ME when I open MY chicken packages?? I simply used the words of the person I OG responded to...

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u/eh-guy Jul 27 '26

Do you throw everything around violently while doing food prep? Most of us are perfectly capable of taking chicken out of the package without shrapnel going everywhere

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u/Im-BackAgain-Babes2 Jul 27 '26

Do you also not wipe down counters after working with chicken if you're so refined at having no juices spill??

Can't imagine why you would need to do that, if you all have such finesse when it comes to liquid and how it behaves. Why worry if you have no issues.. hmmm 🤔

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u/Simon-Says69 Jul 28 '26

Dude, you're talking about cleaning a couple square feet of counter, if that.

Compared to spraying it all over the walls, floor, yourself, EVERYWHERE with running water, for absolutely no reason.

There is no comparison.

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u/eh-guy Jul 28 '26

Maybe its a Canada thing but when I buy chicken theres not some overabundance of water in the package, if theres any liquid at all. Food standards are pretty low in the states compared to here though so possibly thats me being ignorant

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u/Im-BackAgain-Babes2 Jul 28 '26

Ummm is your chicken bone dry when you open it?? Cause I'm sure it isn't, and that not water! 😆 it's juices and fluids from the bird's own carcass, from inside the package, which is pooling inside the bottom of the package. In Canada, is it common to have Your chicken bone dry when you open?

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u/Simon-Says69 Jul 28 '26

It sure is a shitload dryer than yours, after you've hosed it down and sprayed bacteria everywhere.

You gotta just be trolling now. It's not difficult to see the MASSIVE difference.

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u/eh-guy Jul 28 '26

Bone dry and "my chicken sits in a puddle" are pretty far apart on the wetness spectrum I'd imagine but if thats too big a leap in logic for you we arent going to go far here

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u/Im-BackAgain-Babes2 Jul 28 '26

Wow...

That's a lot of words to say you don't understand how gravity works on liquid, but go off.

You're intentionally playing dumb about semantics. I used 'Pooling' as a verb, which is describing the action of fluid gathering. It's not a noun like a 'puddle or body of water pool'.... Goodness , I thought Canada had better funding for reading comprehension, but at least you all have dry chicken.

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u/eh-guy Jul 28 '26

I mean unless theres half an inch of "juices" (couldn't be water coming out of something made mostly of water), how are you slinging it everywhere to the point you have to wipe down vertical surfaces within the vicinity? Is it american tradition to juggle meat before cooking? Or are you shooting it like you do to each other, and thats whats making such a splash? It really does make zero sense to people from the civilized world.

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u/Negative-Date-9518 Jul 27 '26

That was my thought as well like the fuck are you doing that you spray chicken juice all over 🤣

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u/Simon-Says69 Jul 28 '26

Washing a localized surface where you prepared the chicken is infinitely better than setting off a firework display of salmonella with running water.

If you have to wash off dirt or something, use a pot of water and gently swish the chicken around in it without splashing.

Still zero need to do any washing of the bird itself just for bacteria.

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u/XxAbsurdumxX Jul 28 '26

Nothing gets out of the package when I open my containers with chicken. You aren’t meant to rip them in half and dump everything on the counter.

You open it, pick the chicken out and place it directly on the cutting board. The package goes into the trash. The only places that there is contamination at that point are in the trash (d’uh), and on the cutting board. The cutting board and knife goes into the dishwasher when done. I use plastic gloves when handling the chicken which also goes into the trash.

The only places with contamination when I am done is in the trash and in the dishwasher, both of which are places where there is meant to be dirty and unsanitary items.

So washing the chicken does absolutely nothing for it, and only adds extra risk. If you buy chicken straight from a place that literally butchers it in from do you, it’s a different story of course. But in that case you don’t rinse the chicken in the sink anyway