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?

Times like this I wish I could channel my inner Gordon Ramsey “WTF are doing?!! put the knife in the sink/dishwasher and wash your f hands”.

Might have been watching too much Kitchen Nightmares

My theory on meat washing is that all the cultures that wash meat originally started in countries with very high temperatures. Once upon a time there won't have been the storage facilities we have now and there's a possibility flies might land on the food prior to preparation therefore washing it cleans it of any stray germs. I don't know of any cultures from very cold climates who do this but I'm open to be educated and hear other theories.

I should have added bar brining and marinating which is a different process for a different purpose, obviously.

tanked a glass of gin, I'm now too full for anything else
I was skim reading quickly, and that entered my head as "have drunk a tankard full of gin* that'd kill anything - or stop you worrying about it

You never wash chicken, it spreads more germs. If you don’t believe he look it up.

How many people have you heard dying from a bbq?

Don’t worry about others , everyone is so obsessed, I don’t wash fruit either and guess what, I’m never Ill

@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.

Doesn't that make it taste different though, not like chicken?

I wouldn't care about offending the host, when they don't care about offending me. You could tell them they needed to wash the knife due to salmonella and illness - logic should prevail. I would not eat the food.

I don't want to get sick and potentially die from salmonella poisoning for politeness' sake.

Also, with IBS there is no chance I am risking it.

People that say we are obsessed with hygiene are being uneducated, food hygiene exists for a reason.

The chicken is safe to eat the BBQ will easily kill Campylobacter Jejeni and the several thousand serotypes of Salmonella that may be on the chicken. BUT, they contaminated the knives and their hands, the knives went back into the drawer and they were handling the cutlery they returned to the table. I have investigated outbreaks of both organisms and even dealt with some who ended up in hospital NOT nice. Great way to lose weight. I had a friend who used to place cooked chicken back on the plate it came from. I swiped the plate when he wasn't looking took it into his kitchen and put it in the sink with the dirty dishes, when he went to the BBQ to place food back on the bloody plate he thought he was loosing his mind "Oh Vincey boy what are you doing I'm loosing my mind ". Back into the kitchen, came back with a clean plate Yipee No food poisoning. This time . Go into the kitchen and get your own knife and fork or eat the nibbles.

The lack of proper hand washing would turn me off. This is why I rarely eat at other peoples houses unless I know them well.

My Dsis and her fam visited me about a month ago. All of them are nose pickers and they don’t wash their hands before prepping meals. They cooked food a couple of times while here and I couldn’t eat any of it as I know their fingers had been jammed up their noses earlier. Just nasty!!!

This is why I could never eat at other peoples houses, BBQ or not. I just don’t trust people to have the same standards as I do.

I guarantee you’ve had more germs from a fast food place like McDonald’s.

Same !
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I wouldnt be able to eat it because I worry so much about food hygiene. I would probably give myself an upset stomach through worrying.

Some of the ignorance on this thread is astounding. These are basic hygiene practices to prevent people becoming seriously ill. Even if it's "just" a few days of vomiting/diarrhoea who wants that when it's so easily avoided. The consequences can be far more serious though and yes people do end up in hospital and dead sometimes from food poisoning.

Oh another chicken washing debate!
Love how Pp are like you never wash chicken. Look it up!!!! Er yeah we know what UK food standards say. We just don’t care.

Can posters include here not understand cultural differences?? Not everyone is white British.

The vast majority of non white people soak their chicken. It’s a cultural norm thousands of years old and we’re not going to stop so neh!

We also don’t have rampant food poisoning everyday so we must be doing alright.
Nobody is swinging a wet chicken around the room fgs. Calm down.

I also remember a thread quite a few years ago about washing haha after changing nappies. A fair few people happily admitted they didn't bother

Hands, not haha

Can posters include here not understand cultural differences??

I'm genuinely curious but nobody answered my question up thread. What's the purpose behind washing chicken in the traditional way? Is it to remove germs, to get a certain texture, or something else?

Brining cleans the blood off from chicken from the butchers (we only buy meat from butchers not supermarket)
And salt lemon brine helps keep it moist.
Mostly it’s because it’s what my mum did and her mum and her mum and so on and I’ve never had food poisoning from home cooked food. Neither has anyone in my family.

If that is what they deem okay with chicken, what do they deem okay after they have had a poo? Trickle their hands u Dee the cold tap?
Nah to the bbq thanks

"Nobody is swinging a wet chicken around the room fgs. Calm down."

🤣🤣🤣🤣

That's really made my night! 🤣🤣

I assume the 27% are the same dirty buggers who put toilet brushes in their dishwashers.

Has anyone mentioned yet that you shouldn’t wash chicken?