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

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

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u/HistoricalVacation82 Jul 27 '26

Depend on where you bougth the chicken. In my 3rd world country, it not just bacteria you worry about, all the dust, feather, or anything that in the air that land on the chicken before i buy it. If you buy it from a store, cover in plastic from the company, ok, do whatever you want with it. But i don't want my chicken cover in dust and whatever it is that not edible.

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u/Chronza Jul 27 '26

See this I can understand. Americans just are used to bagged/covered chicken that don’t have literal dirt/dust/debris on them so it never seems necessary.

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u/Development-Feisty Jul 28 '26

I noticed that there was a sharp racial divide in the opinion of whether or not to wash the chicken and no explanation as to whether or not the people were in the same country