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?

Don't wash fish, meat and quite often don't wash fruit or veg unless it's come straight from the garden and is covered in mud, none of my family have ever had food poisoning, in fact they've never had a proper tummy bug.

Fish has a 'rawness' to it.

Wash with lemon or vinegar.

Also I do bleach my kitchen daily and throughly so I am not worried.

Chicken cooked with no seasoning vs chicken cooked with seasoning.. no comparison really.

I adore black pudding, but pairing it with marmalade sounds 'interesting'.

Black pudding with marmalade?? Noooo

stooshe ask the butcher if he has a wife...Lol

Isn't vinegar used for pickling things? Like a preservative?

Worral

Why do you think chicken that isn't soaked in vinegar isn't seasoned?

I'm not sure you understand what seasoning actually is.

I have been taught in the Far East to quickly throw meat into boiling water (flash) which brings a scuz off the meat, then you prep it as usual; I guess the benefit is taking off any artificial preservatives or bacteria. The worst culprits for tummy bugs here is from water and salads; don't even start on the melons :)

The enzymes in lime/lemon juice will 'cook' fish (like ceviche) but that's a separate way of preparing and eating it; you don't have to stick something acidic on fish if you're going to cook it anyway because it's the cooking that stops fish being raw. The clue is in the name of the process.

I also don't bleach my kitchen daily either so I'm obviously doomed. I eat lamb and beef rare too but still don't wash it. My parents never did either.

Binkyand Worra, anything fruity or tangy is great with black pudding.

And black pudding and scallops is a marriage made in heaven. I cook those small really flavour some tomatoes down with balsamic vinegar to serve with black pudding and scallops

And while we're at it I've never pre-rinsed rice before cooking it in my life and I'm still alive.

I clean it by putting it in a bowl of water & then changing the water several times until it's clear. The water starts off grimey with lots off residue and then it is completely clear.

I never use bleach in my kitchen. Funnily enough, I use white vinegar to clean it!

No of course I don't.

That would be weird.

When I lived in the uk my neighbour was a butcher. I used to buy meat from him which had literally been butchered and stuck in bags for me. Chops and stuff had bits of gristle on them so I used to rinse those before cooking to get rid of the gristle bits. Never one have washed meat from the supermarket or butcher shop. It would never occur to me to!

Caitlin I am drooling, black pudding and scallops is my food heaven, (as long as the coral is kept on) and then tomatoes and balsamic.

I'd never heard of the idea of washing meat until I saw a friend of mine washing a chicken.

"Sitting in the bit of blood
Seriously? I take it you don't eat black pudding then.

So if you were to wash some meat, then put it back in the fridge, would it need washing again before you cooked it? Being that only you have touched it?

(don't try this at home, folks!)

Perhaps meat in foreign country's isn't as clean as our meat thats why they wash it?

From reading this I think that people from more traditionally hotter countries where freshness was an issue before refrigeration tend to wash meat. Washing meat in vinegar or lemon juice can restore a bit off freshness from meat that's a bit past it's best.
I imagine that's how it started and had now become ingrained in their culture rather than in any actual practical reasons.
I have also noticed that washing your meat seems to make you rather rude - an unforeseen side affect perhaps???

Ovens are a million degrees OP. Washing meat is unnecessary and unhygienic and I'm disliking the racist undertone and superiority in your posts.

You don't have to 'educate' us. We know how to cook meat.

I have also witnessed a work colleague put a chicken and a joint of beef into the same bowl to defrost and another lady going to cook fresh frozen chicken straight from the freezer (thankfully I stopped her)..before she poisoned EVERYONE! sometimes traditions/cultures can be very dangerous.

Dont wash meat veg fish its going to be cooked each to their own everyone as there own way of cooking look at the threads with the diff varations of dishes like corned beef harsh

Lol at as clean as here! Do you actually know where most of your meat comes from?