Do you wash chicken?

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I have a friend who was horrified when a foreign visitor washed chicken and spread chicken juice everywhere. I don't wash chicken but back in the 80s I did as that seemed to be the thing to do. Do you wash your chicken?

No and I can’t believe how many do

Eurgh, adds to list of another reason to go veggie or vegan!

Ive never done it, but given the sub standard of meat/poultry in our supermarkets (what with traditional butchers being very scarce these days), as well as not being able to afford organic, I find the washing of any of it repulsive. (Obvs just my feeling/opinion on the matter)

Your dishwashing method is how most people wash their chicken.

Look it up, it creates an aerosol that gets up to a metre away from the sink

Wtf

Not here. Whilst we lived in the states though I had to wash chicken and I hated it.

An utterly pointless exercise.

No I don’t wash any meat

No!!!
There's even adverts telling you not to for H&S reasons.
Any bacteria goes on cooking.

It used to be best hygiene practice in the UK due to some sort of benefit to washing off some potentially harmful germs - but due to changes in chicken production methods and balance of bacteria/potential risk, the old style of washing became a greayer risk and advice changed- hence being different cultural and national practices.

Yes - always. The chicken slime in the pack makes me gag 🤢
I just clear the area and disinfect it all afterwards.

You put it in a bowl and don't slosh it around the walls or spray the kitchen with it.

These things often go full circle so I'm sure some new research will come out saying that not washing it is somehow harmful, and the cycle will continue, with threads asking about chicken washing in 2087

Just looked it up. An aerosol can be created when running water continuously hits raw chicken. Most people don't do this. If I'm washing a large quantity (10+ legs) I put them in a large pot and do it in the back garden, using the outside tap as I wouldn't be able to do it easily in the kitchen sink.

Yes

and I don’t splash the water everywhere

in will sometimes rinse lamb chops too, when you get them from a butchers they sometimes have bit of bone on them

Yuk no, what are you achieving by running it under water (other than spreading bacteria around your kitchen)?

Nope! Would never occur to.me to do so..!

Of course not. I don't want salmonella all over my kitchen.

No, we’ve know for years that it is not necessary and potentially dangerous! All that’s needed is to wipe with kitchen towel

Yes 🇵🇰🇯🇲 but not every time as I'm lazy
Wouldn't expect most white British people to do so though or understand
It's really more marinating it in lemon vinegar water in a bowl in the sink, maybe rubbing it with the lemon & then pouring that water down the sink
Bits do slough off. Gristly bits, little threads of blood etc, slimy stuff. Especially on thighs

Bleach whole sink and counter tops etc after

No running tap on high violently splashing bacteria over the kitchen as some people jump to that dramatic vision

We actually had this discussion at work recently. I think washing chicken is an African thing ( 3 different people from 3 different African countries said they / their mum washed chicken!).

It's a cultural thing. I grew up thinking it was disgusting to not wash meat, and my mum still washes hers. I do not wash meat any longer as I married a white person and got used to not washing it!

In case it helps, my mum is Carribbean

Sounds a great way to get salomenlla so no

it’s cultural and the British internet’s wide eyed confusion and fake outrage about it is cringe. Insist you’re smarter than the stupid Caribbeans or west Africans if you like, but it’s not a great look.