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?

Skin, slime, dirt and all?

Where on earth are you getting this meat? If its slimy, it's off. There's no dirt, what's wrong with skin?

I presume you cook the meat before eating it? In that case all germs will be killed off in the oven High temperatures tend to do that.

Are most people not washing their meat English?

I think that may be the reason?

Germs from bare handed women will STILL BE KILLED THROUGH COOKING!

A special meat bowl? That's a new one as well.
I guess you do whatever you want to the food you eat but it all seems at bit unnecessary to me.

"I am realy shocked. Maybe it is a culture thing"

So which culture is it where people "wash" meat with lemon & vinegar before cooking?

My multi-cultural extended family includes Turks, Americans, several European nationals, and two Africans. And I've never heard of such a practice.

The only time I've had lime soaked fish is when I've had ceviche.

Goodness no. Never heard of such a thing.

Supermarket meat is a bit cleaner like I said.
The slimy bit on chickens, you may not know because you haven't looked properly especially when you take the skin off !

It's a dead animal. I hardly think the butcher touching it is reason to get squeamish.
What slime and dirt is even on the meat you buy??

BTW I don't even wash my fruit and veg

Seriously, if you go down the road of thinking about who has touched what between anywhere and your mouth, you would never touch or eat anything again.

Why would you need to put vinegar on meat when a high temperature will do a much much better job of the same thing.

It's completely illogical!

Always wash meat and fish. I think its more common with ethnic minorities.

A special meat bowl? Is that like a penis beaker, but bigger, so that you can dunk the bollocks too?

I'm thinking the taste of lime, or vinegar, wouldn't exactly do wonders for haddock florentine. Blech.

The only slimy bit I've seen on chicken when the skin has been removed is the filmy bit (don't know what its called) it comes away when pulled, why would I need to wash it off?

There is no dirt !

I be just been to check my chicken for slime - can't find any.

And yes I can categorically say I have never had a piece of raw meat with 'dirt' on it.

I quite like chicken skin, nice and crispy...

I buy from a butchers. I've never noticed dirt or slime on the meat. If there was I'd use another butchers. And I like poultry skin and pork rind.

What do you think will happen if you don't wash it? Genuine question, not trying to antagonise.

I clean it. In fact someone I know spends hours each weekend cleaning it! Someone else I know employs someone to clean the meat!

Nope.

If you take the skin off chicken, then no one on Earth, other than you, is going to have touched the chicken, where the skin was previously attached.

Yes I clean my meat. It is definitely a cultural Caribbean thing.

I clean meat with vinegar or lemon and burn the hair off. If rushed for time I take the skin off altogether.

If meat is not cleaned/washed it has a raw smell which makes me feel ill.

I do not wash mince beef and instead use a lot of garlic seasoning.