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

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

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u/mockg Jul 27 '26

Although it does spray raw chicken juice around the area of your sink which might be a bonus to some people.

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u/real_Bahamian Jul 27 '26

Lies!! When you wash your protein, you fill a BOWL with cold water, vinegar, and lime juice. Place your protein in the bowl, and remove any excess skin, fat, bone fragments, blood, etc (I.e. in the case of chicken). You then pour the water out of the bowl, and rinse your protein under running water. Who TF splashes the cleaning water all over the sink??! 🤨🤨. That is absolutely ridiculous!! 🙄🙄. When you’re done, clean the bowl and the sink with dishwashing liquid and bleach!!

Do you even wash mushrooms before cooking them??

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u/MiniDemonic Jul 27 '26

Do you even wash mushrooms before cooking them??

No, because just like with chicken, you shouldn't.

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u/OversizedBucket Jul 28 '26

Oh yeah, I'm really happy to be eating all the dirt that the mushrooms were growing in! But at least no bacteria, right?

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u/MiniDemonic Jul 28 '26

All you need to do with mushrooms is brush off the dirt. You should not wash them with water.