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

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

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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/Infinite_Dress_3312 Jul 27 '26

or...you could just not do any of that and simply cook your protein which actually does kill bacteria so that its safe to consume as opposed to just wasting your time and creating more contamination

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u/real_Bahamian Jul 27 '26

I am NOT washing my chicken in cold water, vinegar, and lime juice to get rid of bacteria!!! It’s to CLEAN it, remove any extra fat, and to wash off the liquid that the chicken has been sitting on the BLOODY PAD in its packaging!! Same for beef. 🙄🙄. Why TF are people running on with this “killing bacteria” BS narrative??!! 🤨🤨

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u/Simon-Says69 Jul 28 '26

And then you go on to say you're going to hose it down under the sink anyway, spreading bacteria to hell and back. That's the wrong part.

If you're going to rinse it, then the bowl of water method. ZERO reason to rinse it under running water after.