Don't wash your turkey!

[PartridgeinaRustyBearTree]

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7140651.stm

I've been telling people this for years but few believe me. My mother just won't accept it, because she was brought up to wash all poultry. And she's from the north-east, the worst offenders according to that article!

As an ex food microbiologist I completely agree might as well slosh Salmonella around your kitchen.

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so being lazy is actually a really good idea occasionally....

I never have and (certainly now!), never will, wash meat before cooking.

I always figured that germs would be cooked out, and just plain arsed could no tbe bothered to also wash the meat first anyhow.
In my mind I figured that if it has been plucked and gutted and then wrapped, my only job was to unwrap and fling in oven.

MIL always said implied I was lazy......go figure.....I am NOT, I am doing something extremely very healthy.

woohoo for me

i never wash meat before cooking what good would water be at killing germ anyway,not much into the taste of detol so i just cook it as is

Well, I've never washed mine, much to MIL's disgust, but I'd always said that washing wouldn't get rid of anything that cooking wouldn't kill - so I was glad to see I was right!

Have never ever washed meat and I'm from the North East

I've never washed meat, for exactly those reasons.