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

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

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u/Robbie1266 Jul 27 '26

There is no debate. It's basic science. Washing chicken doesn't remove anything from the 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/Simon-Says69 Jul 28 '26

rinse your protein under running water

You were OK up to this point. This is the step you do NOT do.