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?

That's the spirit vinegar Cunty!

OK, as much as I've never taken part in this meat washing madness

What's with all the people assuming the meat washers are splashing water and bacteria all over the place?

Do you all have like really high pressured taps or something?

Ive also never made anyone ill splashing my bacteria around.

Well, I wash my fish, poultry and meat as part of the preparation. It goes in a bowl with cold water and vinegar/lemon juice. It doesn't splash everywhere, nor get on my work surfaces. I don't like tiny bits of bone and gristle, fish scales or feathers in my food.

Is the chicken slime transparent and filmy?
I get that when I buy skinless chicken.

This would be quite a funny thread if it wasn't for the the sneery, racist undertones...

Sorry for slightly hijacking the thread again:
'FrostedButts Sat 08-Feb-14 21:13:37
re page 5, you don't rinse rice to get rid of grit, you rinse it so there is no rice flour or starch clinging to the outside of the grain so it doesn't become risotto. I would be shocked to find any foreign object in my rice barring the odd husk... which would float to the top while cooking anyway'

No that isn't why I rinse rice when I cook it. I think it's a little mean spirited to point out someone doing something ISN'T the reason they said they are doing it.

With regards to what you said in the post above FrostedButts, maybe it's dependent on the method people use to cook their rice e.g. if they are tipping excess water off after cooking it so they are 'rinsing starch off' like you said. I don't know though because use a rice cooker which is by far the easiest way to cook it IMO and like some other Members have said, you don't have to watch it and you can have it on 'Warm' so ready to eat 20mins after it's ready or it people eating at different times, an hour later [thumbsup]

Hmmm its kinda watery gloop rabbit, its not the quality of chicken is it? Ive never frozen chicken from a butchers so it may be totally different like that

People from hotter countries where freshness was harder to maintain wash meat. Washing meat in vinegar or lemon juice restores freshness from meat that is past it's best.

That's how it started and had now become ingrained in their culture rather than in any actual practical reasons.

I don't wash meat, or anything else for what it's worth. I brush off any small bits of soil from my mushrooms and that's about it.

Is it wrong I thought this was going to be foreplay related?

I thought the same thing Fut - read about 3 pages before I had to accept that it really was about meat and the mad meat washing people

Well I've left a bottle of white vinegar and half a lemon next to DH's side of the bed.

Make of that what you will....

Am I alone in clicking on this thinking it was a re-run of penisbeaker? Sorry if someone else beat me to the punch line.

Oops, sorry, just realised there are 15 pages and I am not alone.....

Well, I thought this topic was going to be a companion to the one the other day about washing your "hoo-ha," but no such luck.

I don't wash meat. If it makes any difference, I'm white and in the US.

If I'm going to sear steaks in the cast iron skillet in oil, I pat them dry first, but that's just so I don't have a repeat of the second degree burning incident I had the last time I didn't pat them dry. :( I get my meat, which is always organic, grass fed, free-range, etc., from either a butcher or my local supermarket. I have no idea who's touched it before I got it, and I don't much care. I will say that I have never witnessed either the butcher at the butcher shop or the one at the grocery store touch meat without gloves on.

No because unless the meat is raw, the temperatures of over 100 degrees c will kill bacteria and I haven't got time to do pointless tasks like that. I have a life.

only if it is slimy, like it sometimes gets in plastic packaging.

Nope never wash meat. Might pat it dry with kitchen roll before frying though.

I always use to was my meat before cooking it then I watched a programme that said you shouldn't do this as it spreads the bacteria around the meat so now I just cook it and am still alive and kicking.

I don't wash rice either, but that's because I use the 2 minutes in a microwave jobs. Lazy but perfect. I'm not good at cooking rice.

I'm Chinese, from HK. I have never washed meat and nor does anyone in my family. I have more hygiene certs than you can shake a stick at. I love black pudding and blue steak.

My BIL is from Jamaica - never seen him wash meat.

My ex-flatmate of 3 years was from Botswana. She has cooked me hundreds of meals of unwashed meat and the only time she has almost killed me was when she hit me with a bottle of shampoo when I was pissed and she thought I was a burglar.

Where does the not washing=not seasoning thing come from?

I am Australian and do not wash meat. I do not know anyone who does

MIL does. She also bleaches everything that will stand still.

She never seasons anything.

Makes me laugh that some people squirm because there a bit of blood sat with it in the packaging. It's a hacked up animal, what do they expect.

Foxes I repeat, it's not about squirming, it's a cultural thing.

OK, not read all the replies (it's gone midnight and there's 15 pages (front and back. )
Can't be arsed to read them all.
I've read that it's unhygienic to wash meat, and can be more dangerous than not washing it. (You're splashing bacteria around off the uncooked meat by washing it!)
Nothing wrong with cooking it as it is. Washing/vingear/lemon dousing is just weird.