It's Saturday night, im bored......I need to know if you always season your chicken.....

[MobyDicksTinyCanoe]

Ive been sat scrolling through recipe videos on TikTok (( don't judge me)) and cant help but notice the amount of screechy hysteria in the comments section over ' unsesoned chicken'.

But to me it is seasoned, for example a normal roast chicken with salt and pepper rubbed into the skin.... Which is exactly what I do. I might rub some garlic butter under the skin and stick an onion or lemon up its backside but that's as good as it gets.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy peri peri chicken or whatever as much as anyone but it just doesnt always need it...... One poor woman was being mocked for not seasoning chicken in a heavy cream / garlic /cheesey potatoes dish. And again id argue it doesnt need it. The chicken should hold onto the other flavours.

My cack handed research has seen that most these comments seem to come from Americans..... Are there chickens less tasty? Or am I just Belinda from Blandtown?

So Yabu, and your food is shite and a waste of calories

Or yanbu. There's no need to empty the contents of your spice rack everytime you cook a damn chicken.

I thank you.

@OppsUpsSide No worries!

Tbh I was more referring to Mookie. I was angry typing, as the person who started the thread I feel a responsibility for how others view it.

And again if you feel comments are crossing the line report them. I haven't bothered reading the comments about washing chicken tbh as it wasn't what the thread was about.

And no. I don't wash my chicken. But don't have an opinion on what others do with theirs, I'm sure if chicken washing was causing chaos left, right and centre the NHS would have had some sort of campaign going by now begging people not to do it.

@MobyDicksTinyCanoe

• Mookie and I aren’t the same person. As you clearly don’t enjoy having things you haven’t said attributed to you, please do me the courtesy of not attributing things I haven’t said to me.

• There are over 150 comments on this thread. I’m not going to ignore the problematic ones because you feel a responsibility for how the thread is viewed. If that’s the case, then don’t ignore them - you report them. I will continue to respond to them as I see fit.

• I haven’t asked if you wash your chicken, not have I stated that you should do so. So, I’m not sure what the ‘and, no’ was in response to. I don’t care what you do, what I took issue with was the condescension of the post to which I responded.

[quote Saysama]@Mookie81 Yup. Some of the comments on this thread honestly seem like intentional bait.[/quote]

Yeah, yours.

@SmellyOldOwls Please, show me which of my comments are bait. I’m all agog.

I wash chicken (cultural thing and all family does it) and no one in my household or family or anyone we know has ever had salmonella or food poisoning. Ever. My mum used to say ‘only white people get food poisoning because we wash and cook our food properly”. Now I know that’s a complete generalization but still makes me chuckle when I see the “never wash your chicken! You’re spreading bacteria” brigade. Honestly, never ever heard of anyone getting salmonella in our culture.

Cma1988 I rinse out my packaging in the sink before putting it in the bin or recycling....... I dont see that as any less salmonella spreading risk than washing a chicken. And im yet to poison anyone.

It's neither here or there if you wash your chicken or not.. I'm pretty sure the NHS have made an informed choice by telling people not to. If you wash your chicken, good for you.. But washing chicken tradition does not surpass NHS guidance based on scientific facts!

Well I’ve never used all purpose seasoning… generally just add my own. So will add to next shop! Cans use peanut based ones due to allergies… will have to wait till son moves out!

@OhShutIt

You're not going to get better meat than the chicken running around in your back garden or the cow that's straight from your neighbours farm, as is the case for a lot of people in the countries where they season their meat.

Lol, 'high quality' has got nothing to do with it.

It's a taste preference. Namely, because spices originate from these cultures too!

Britain (and most of Europe) doesn't actually grow any of this. It's not rocket science.

Exactly this!

Yanbu. I like to taste the actual chicken, not whatever’s been poured onto it. Assuming that it’s a good quality organic free range chicken, which I know is privileged but does massively improve the flavour.

If it’s a battery-farmed chlorine-washed American chicken then I can see why someone might want to change the flavour.

Also fed up of people who prefer spicy foods saying that food without is ‘bland’. Hot doesn’t equal good any more than hot coffee is superior to iced juice. I prefer subtle delicate flavours, others may feel differently, who care.

@Skysblue Not all food that contains spices is ‘hot’. The majority of spices are not ‘hot’ - there is zero heat in cumin, coriander, turmeric, lemongrass, fennel seed…I could go on, but you get the picture. Many of these have extremely subtle and delicate flavours.

If you don’t like spices (or know very much about them, based on the ‘hot’ comments), that’s fine. Nobody is making you use them. However, lots of us like them, consider food without any to be bland and are equally fed up with the rather odd assumed superiority of ‘well, I like to taste my food’ (which indicates that we don’t) and ‘you don’t need spices if you buy good quality xx’ (which, again, indicates that we don’t).

If we’re going to talk about being fed up.

@Bobsyer

Americans (in particular) have the sheer audacity to say brits serve up shit unseasoned food and then call dumping several tins of food and read made sauces into a dish and calling it a meal.

I’m only half kidding.

True.

That being said, I don't like plain chicken.

[quote Saysama]@ArblemarchTFruitbat Sorry, posted too soon! 😂

Was saying that we use different combinations of herbs and spices, depending on what we’re cooking. And we’re soup/stew/sauce people, so the chicken would generally be a component of a dish. However, if you want to give a toast some oomph’, I’d recommend trying some suya spice on it. You can get it in most Afro-Caribbean stores or online.[/quote]
Suya 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 DP is Nigerian and his best friend owns a Nigerian restaurant. I cannot tell you how much joy this brings me 😂 Suya, pounded yam and egusi, moi moi.

And don't get me started on puff puff 😏