To not eat the BBQ food after...

[BBQBoke]

...witnessing the hosts poor food hygiene?

The nice weather this weekend has meant I have been invited to the first BBQ of the year...happy days! Or it was until I saw the host pull the chicken fillets out of the fridge and pierce the packet open with a knife and then put the knife back in the drawer😱🤮 They then took the chicken out of the packet and put onto the BBQ and trickled some water over their hands - no soap! - and have just put some cutlery on the table from the same drawer they put the knife back into. I'm suddenly not feeling hungry now.

WIBU to make up an excuse to leave? Or suck it up and hope I don't end up with the shits?

I really wouldn’t care about this at all, but then I shared an apple with my pony earlier so not the best judge

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There was a TV programme that showed why chicken should not be washed.
Can't remember exactly, but the chicken was sprayed with some sort of dye, then washed under VERY gently running water.

I think it was UV light that showed the dye (i.e. simulated surface bacteria) was sprayed everywhere - taps, cook's arms, work surfaces etc.

First BBQ of summer and we have raw chicken, whether you should wash it or not depending if you're of Caribbean heritage and also rinse in vinegar and/or lemon juice, minging in-laws and their ghastly caravan holidays and the OP being a little bit OCD.

My bingo card is filling up nicely.

That would kill my appetite completely.

I wouldn't care what excuse I used, I just wouldn't be eating there.

They sound filthy.

Definitely no washing of chicken.

@NovemberRain2

Was it plain chicken fillets they took straight out of the packet and onto the bbq? If so, I'd leave on the basis that the food sounds bland as fuck.

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so they pierced the packet and put the knife back in the drawer?
barely touching the chicken, quite possibly not touching it

hand washing with soap and water not required

what you dont see wont alarm you

@Looneytune253

I can't see masses wrong with what's happened here. All the tv chefs just wipe their hands with a towel or put their fingers in a bowl of water after handling meat. I wash mine in running water but don't bother with soap unless particularly messy or greasy

You know cooking shows are edited? Who wants to see several minutes of hand washing instead of the cooking?

I wouldnt eat anything OP, it's the raw chickeny hands that probably then cross contaminated everything else. And I'm not overly fussed about hygiene in general, but once you've had food poisoning you never want it again.

Those of you who wash chicken... what is it you're trying to wash off? (I've been veggie since a teen so this conversation is confusing me)

And wouldn't soaking a chicken in acid, as one person described, just dry it out?

And yet they’re alive! Honestly, too much obsession with having sterile everything these days!

Yanbu! Some people are gross. My BIL accidentally dropped meat on his floor (he has dogs btw), scooped it back onto a plate and served it to my toddler!

I wouldn’t eat there OP.

You've reminded me why I am dreading BIL and SIL's BBQ later this summer. Appalling food hygiene. I won't be eating a thing 🤢

@alilstressed

I'm also thinking that the chicken was neither washed or seasoned before going on the grill!

You don’t wash chicken!

@Neverreturntoathread

Yanbu! Some people are gross. My BIL accidentally dropped meat on his floor (he has dogs btw), scooped it back onto a plate and served it to my toddler!

I wouldn’t eat there OP.

What sort of dogs? I bet it's not a labrador. You wouldn't see that chicken for dust.

You could say you are doing Lent and not eating meat at the moment.

Nothing OCD about not wanting to eat from hands and possibly cutlery contaminated by raw chicken juices. Just common sense.

I once went with a friend to visit his elderly mum.
She took two chicken breasts out the freezer when we got there in the morning — and they stayed on the counter until she cooked them at 7pm that evening.
I had to smile and eat… 🤢

It amazes me how many adults don’t know just how ill raw chicken can make us.

A relative of mine got food poisoning. The chicken was perfectly well cooked through but she hadn’t washed her hands between prepping the chicken and nibbling a bit of raw carrot. She’s in her 60s but only started doing more proper cooking in recent years and didn’t realise that you have to be careful with raw meat.

What's the fixation with washing the chicken? It's still a bit of dead bird however you look at it. Washing it in cold water doesn't kill bacteria or somehow make it a cleaner bit of dead bird.

I wouldn't eat it either. Simply not worth the risk. That's the kind of hospitality I'm keen to avoid. Yes, I'd be judging and not ashamed of it either. Just something about the host spreading raw chicken juice around the place makes me very edgy.

@Whatsmyname100

You must have your eyes closed to be making such a mess. It's absolutely gross to not wash the chicken.🤢 Why would anything be splashing around?

Why would you need to wash it? What are you washing off, chicken juice? But the whole thing is made of chicken so why would you need to wash off the chicken from the outside? When you cook it, any germs on the outside would be cooked and killed anyway.

People wash chicken because of cultural norms, not because chicken needs washing.

I thought when people refer to washing chicken they meant soaking in brine or lemon/citric acid, not actually washing it under the tap! That is what my friends mum (from Barbados) means anyway.

@AllThoseDirtyWords

I thought when people refer to washing chicken they meant soaking in brine or lemon/citric acid, not actually washing it under the tap! That is what my friends mum (from Barbados) means anyway.

Yes, like giving it a bath. Very clean and self-contained.

Not at all like splashing it round under a tap in a sink that's going to be used for washing salad vegetables.

@OfstedOffred

Oh god I wouldn't have even noticed.

We are too germ obsessed these days.

Its not germ obsessed, it's about salmonella with chicken. Which can kill you.