To ask if you clean your meat?

[Cleopatois]

I use lemon and water or white vinegar and water to clean all my meat.

A colleague said she didn't just through it from pack to pan :O

Her reasoning was 'its free range so that means it clean'.

Another colleague said it is a culture thing. What do you do?

I rinse it under the tap then dab with kitchen paper, I've seen an abbatoire.

I don't. I just cook it.

I agree it can be cultural. I know people from the carribean can be particularly cautious and wash their meat.

Just to let you all know I am cooking sausages and I did not wash them.

The meat arrives at the butcher already skinned and as part of an animal. Then it's cut up further, so the 'outside' of that original carcass is cut off (as it's a bit dried) and becomes pet mince. Each cut that they sell has been produced on a clean block (where the top layer is scraped off every day and salted), with clean knives. Butchers and servers are continually washing their hands. Any germs that arrive on the meat after that, will die in the oven anyway. Meat in the UK is stored in the fridge or freezer which reduces the multiplication of bacteria anyway.

I have a butcher relative. We've often eaten stuff that wouldn't sell (too 'dark' in colour as getting old) and have never been ill as it is simply cooked through. You can tell when uncooked meat is 'off' as it smells.

I wonder.... If you hang your meat not in refrigerated conditions (friends of my parents used to hang pheasant in their shed....), then by the time it's ready to eat, it's crawling with maggots. Is the washing an old custom to wash those maggots (and further fly eggs) off? Modern meat is hung in conditions where this doesn't happen...

You are soon to shuffle off this mortal coil with such cavalier behaviour Pobble.

Whole chickens get a good swilling out and rinsing under the cold water tap, anything else is just chucked into pan/oven dish/tray or under grill.

You are soon to shuffle off this mortal coil with such cavalier behaviour Pobble

I thought as much. It's not just me, it's DH and DS too. How we've survived until now I'll never know.

Wow, the things you come across on Mumsnet. There are people who wash meat? Given the danger of then splashing raw meat juices all over your kitchen surfaces, how can I politely raise this in conversation with my friends so I can make sure that if any of them do it, I never, ever eat round their houses.

I did enjoy my unwashed, rare-side-of-medium rare steak at lunchtime.

I just cook it, never wash it.

Ive not read the whole thread, are we talking washing to kill bacteria?
And does NOBODY else wash chicken slime?

To summarise his thread:
Meat washers: I can't believe people don't wash their meat! Amazing!

99%of everyone else: here's links to actual facts about why its a really bad idea.

Meat washers: I can't believe it though! Do you really not wash meat?

(I'm a vegetarian. Thankfully.)

Ethnic minority, from a hot country - I don't wash meat.

EvenBetter

I thought this was another penisbeaker story
Incidentally I don't wash my meat

But WHY are people washing it

I don't get chicken slime.

I don't clean my meat, i just get straight down to it, can't waste a good sausage

When i buy forzen chicken i defrost it on a plate and theres like a puddle of watery slime under it.

Another non washer of meat, fish, fruit or veg

Oh the things you learn on mumsnet!

Jeez no. What will a wash under the tap do that high heat won't?

Maybe that explains it- I don't buy frozen chicken.

Not sure what people are buying that has slime and grit on it.

No. Take it out of pack and put in oven. As advised (admittedly years ago) by a food hygiene course I did for work. Reduces the risk of spreading germs from splashing water.

I wash my fanny in the shower every day.

But do you wash it with vinegar, Cunty?