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‘I’d like my chicken rare, please’

140 replies

HarrietKettleWasHere · 27/10/2018 21:44

AIBU that you don’t have ‘rare’ chicken?!

I cooked a chicken stroganoff for my mate earlier and as I went to brown off the thigh fillets my mate pipes up

‘can you leave mine rare please?’

I said ‘don’t worry I’m not going to overcook them!’

And age says ‘yeah but can you leave mine a bit pink?’

Confused I told her she could get ill and she says she always does chicken like that and never has! And it’s no different to having a rare steak Confused

Anyone else know anybody that has their food ‘weirdly’?

At uni my housemate used to love eating half defrosted bread.

OP posts:
lunchboxloony · 28/10/2018 00:28

My children love uncooked pasta and frozen peas - weird!

With the chicken thing though - I sometimes cook my chicken perfectly well but when you first cut into the breast it can still look very faintly pink. If you leave it a while (like when you 'rest' a roast?) it seems to lose that pink tinge. Did the friend really mean rare or was she just saying that because it's actually quite easy to overcook it when it's small pieces - and she was trying to make sure you didn't? (I was about to type "there's nothing nastier than dry, overcooked chicken" - but then thought that food poisoning is clearly much worse Grin)

cheesemongery · 28/10/2018 00:43

uncooked dry pasta?

My teeth have just winced! Or do you just suck it until it softens? (pictures self in old age).

AnnieAnoniMouse · 28/10/2018 00:53

Ask your friend about her funeral plans...

...she’s an idiot.

Weird food...yep. Dangerous food...nope.

AnnieAnoniMouse · 28/10/2018 00:56

cheese. You just eat it, like nuts or hard toffee. I crunch.

I knew I shouldn’t have used ALL of the spiral pasta the other night. Grr.

MamaHechtick · 28/10/2018 01:27

I had food poisoning from possibly under cooked pork, it was horrendous, I really thought I was going to die or never be able to eat again. I don't even take the chance with beef now.

Although my midwife when I was pregnant did amuse me. I didn't know the rules around rare meats and pregnancy so I confessed to her I had eaten a rare steak a few days before, she asked me where the steak was from and I told her Waitrose, she then said "oh you'll be absolutely fine then" I often wonder if I'd have had it from somewhere else what she would have said.

Monday55 · 28/10/2018 01:42

eating undercooked chicken? ...... Bye Felicia !!

AjasLipstick · 28/10/2018 01:09

I had a Beligian mate years ago who used to cook it like that.

HairyArmpits · 28/10/2018 02:37

Your friend is nuts and very ignorant.

How silly

elephantseverywhere · 28/10/2018 03:09

I think we're much more preoccupied about these things than other countries/cultures. Maybe because of our horrible farming practices, or just over-sanitised culture, I'm not sure. I have a Chinese friend (who grew up in Asia) who was showing me a recipe for marinated chicken and proceeded to taste the raw chicken to check the seasoning. She had no idea why I was so horrified!! Said it was how her family always did it.

Google would also suggest that eating leftover rice would be taking your life in your hands, but having lived in Asia I'm sure I've done it a thousand times cos it's just normal!

sheldontgetimpaledonthegusset · 28/10/2018 03:12

Your friend is more than welcome to have their chicken rare.

I think I would prefer my shite solid.

agnurse · 28/10/2018 03:16

Chicken, pork, and hamburger should NEVER be eaten rare.

Raw chicken can carry salmonella.

Raw pork can carry tapeworm parasites.

Raw hamburger can carry E. coli.

Now, blue or rare steak is usually okay as long as you're not pregnant. (Pregnant women can get parasitic infections easily.) E. coli only lives on the outside of the meat. When hamburger or mince is made it is ground up so the outside gets munched into the inside. This means the E. coli is present throughout the meat. That's why you have to cook it so thoroughly.

agnurse · 28/10/2018 03:19

Unfortunately in many developing countries parasitic infections are very common. In fact they can be so common they're treated as normal.

I had an epidemiology text that was written in a very approachable, informal manner. I still have it as I liked the author's style. He described a case where he and some other researchers were taking stool samples from patients living in an underdeveloped area. In almost every case the stool was liquid. When asked how long they'd had diarrhea, the patients almost all responded, "What do you mean, diarrhea? My stool is always like this."

HerRoyalNotness · 28/10/2018 04:05

An old friend used to eat raw bacon as we were chopping it to cook for a dish. That’s not what ended our friendship, but it should have been the last straw

ragged · 28/10/2018 04:37

bacon so full of nitrates & salt, maybe not so risky

user789653241 · 28/10/2018 07:24

cheesemongery, ha ha. It's true where you are eating/where you get a ingredients from.
I have watched the you tube video recently about sushi, that how they treat raw fish to be safe. I once bought sushi from supermarket known as more middle class. I had a horrible food poisoning. I don't trust them anymore. If I eat sushi in England, it have to be in good quality restaurant.

donajimena · 28/10/2018 07:49

agnurse are you able to point me in the direction of that paper? I'm a student and you had me at 'informal' Grin

Soubriquet · 28/10/2018 07:54

Reminds me of this Envy

‘I’d like my chicken rare, please’
MongerTruffle · 28/10/2018 07:58

Care needs to be taken with lamb too

The article is referring mainly to minced lamb. The advice applies to all minced meat (so you shouldn't have a medium-rare burger).

Mummyoflittledragon · 28/10/2018 08:30

Dhs friend ate raw minced beef - not tartar from our fridge as he was hungry. He then went on to explain he eats all manner of meat raw including chicken. As in supermarket chicken, pork etc.

Oblomov18 · 28/10/2018 09:00

I don't agree with pink chicken. She is being ridiculous.
Is she being a bit pretentious? She thinks it's trendy to have rare steak (I like my steak rare) but now thinks she should also ask for her chicken to be done this way too?

Nizuc · 28/10/2018 09:03

Surely raw chicken is too slippery to eat?

Two stories:

Not the same vein as raw chicken, but I remember reading about a nurse and her husband who went abroad and found a little taverna to eat in. The husband complained his chicken tasted a bit fish-y. He was dead by 2am.

I had campylobacter once and my MIL got confused and told all her friends I had chlamydia. Shock

Honeypickle · 28/10/2018 09:05

I was watching Sunday Kitchen once and the guest French chef said he liked his chicken to be pink and it was often served in France that way. A bit later, the presenter had to make a formal announcement that the BBC did not recommend serving chicken pink and it should always be properly cooked!

CrispbuttyNo1 · 28/10/2018 09:31

It is safe

worridmum · 28/10/2018 09:40

Because cows are STRICT herbivores so there meat does not have the same properties as pig (ominvories) or chicken.

Further this pigs and chickens also carry germs mentioned by other posters that other meats don't.

Poultry, pork and shellfish are some of tje worst meats for causing illness (this is not the only meats just the most common ones).

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