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?

Episode thats a very good point about the butchers.

"Soaking in it's own juices?"

That must be the weirdest criticism of meat I've ever heard

I'm confused here.

One minute, "washing" meat or fish doesn't change the flavour because the vinegar or citrus juice is rinsed off.

The next, "washing" the meat gets rid of a "raw" flavour.

So, does it change the flavour, or doesn't it?

We have just received a specific reminder about this at work in connection with food hygiene procedures (health care setting) - no washing of raw meat or poultry.

OP I've told this story before, but one night I took 4 cling film wrapped pheasants from the freezer to defrost over night. In the morning there were 3. Goodness only knows how but one of the cats had dragged one of them off to his bed. Pheasant still chilled, still in cling film.

I just thought it's going in oven at 200c it'll be fine. It was.

Love the way the OP is stating her opinion as some sort of scientific fact.

And why post in AIBU if you're only interested in your own opinion?

Squoosh, I mean that RAAAAW taste and smell.

Do you mean the taste and smell of meat rather than raw? Also, I'm not British, but it's not something I've heard of anyone doing either.

Haven't you seen the bloodish liquid that collects in the pre packed chicken? PP

I don't wash meat and I very very rarely season it. No one has ever complained

Cleo I agree, the other day he poked his finger in gravy to taste it.

There are a number of TV chefs who I would not eat from if they were actually willing to cook for me, that is!

I watched Nigella cooking curry chicken and she took the chicken out of the packaging and put it straight into the pan

Why eat meat if you don't like the taste of it?

Oh just remembered - if I ever cook a whole fowl, usually duck or pheasant or something, I'll always wash out the insides, just in case there are any residual gut contents. Yes cooking might kill off the bacteria, but it won't remove the taint of poo.

Tippytoe

It is firstly totally unnecessary and secondly all health and safety guidelines say you should not wash raw meat - you are just spreading bacteria round the sink, taps, surfaces -etc.

I literally don't know what you posters mean when you say cooked meat tastes raw.
And stooshe, it's hardly surprising people get defensive about their cooking when people like you are so unnecessarily scathing!

Methe I love meat, but I like it to be clean as possible.
I season my meat as I like flavour and taste.

Some of you guys should try meat seasoning.

Oyurve I think it depends how long you leave it in there and the concentration of the other stuff, my MIL might leave meat soaking in wine and water (or lemon juice) for quite a while. It slightly alters the texture of the meat but not to make it unrecognizable or vastly different.

I also think that episode makes a good point, if you are buying meat and poultry and fish from an outdoor market in a hot country, or indeed one where the meat is handled in less than extremely hygienic conditions, washing the meat makes more sense.

I am used to the taste of meat cooked immediately from the packet so it doesn't bother me, but I know my IL's and my husband notice it. I just choose to continue anyway, I can't be bothered to start washing meat really.

Give a twist to your sunday roast.

So you don't care if people have been touching your meat, its been soaking in its own juices and bacteria and then you fling it straight in the oven or pan.

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Bliky How does your meat taste?

I assume it tastes bland without seasoning.

The bloodish liquid you are squirming about is only what has seeped from the chicken...you are actually eating the bloodish liquid in the chicken breast but before it has leaked out, you do realise that dont you.

It isnt some other strange entity

So you don't care if people have been touching your meat, its been soaking in its own juices and bacteria and then you fling it straight in the oven or pan.

I couldn't give a shiny shit because I'm GOING TO COOK IT. And I'm a food safety professional. If I inspected a kitchen and they were washing meat I'd have serious concerns.

Scientific basis for this dubious practice please?

Oh I love black pudding

Do you at least wash your fish?