I'm pretty sure that if you would look at meat sold in open market places you wouldn't feel safe by just cooking it
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Wait, not everyone washes and dries their meat before seasoning?
- Thread starter Slayven
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I'm pretty sure that if you would look at meat sold in open market places you wouldn't feel safe by just cooking it
I don't wash my meat as I've always understood that to be unsanitary. The only thing I've heard that you should wash is rice, but I believe this depends on the type of rice.
TBH, I don't season my meat either anymore as I've come to prefer the taste of various sauces (i.e. steak sauce or bbq) which come with enough salt/seasoning on their own IMO.
TBH, I don't season my meat either anymore as I've come to prefer the taste of various sauces (i.e. steak sauce or bbq) which come with enough salt/seasoning on their own IMO.
Check out Alton Brown's recipe for whole chicken in the oven. He even forgoes the oil "because it's wet." He's somehow correct lmao
Alton Brown is the man for simple recipes that you can go anywhere with on your own. Love.
But rinsing the meat won't make it any safer.
If you need to rinse it for aesthetic reasons then you need to be careful, and don't do it with chicken.
This is an old school thing.
Mom told me years ago that rinsing was good for removing anything the butchers might have put on it. Several times she removed small bits of metal shavings because they did not care about black people's food way back then.
Mom told me years ago that rinsing was good for removing anything the butchers might have put on it. Several times she removed small bits of metal shavings because they did not care about black people's food way back then.
It's like some people don't realise that raw meat is saturated with bacteria. The outside might be squeaky clean and disinfected with bleach, but you're still holding a disease bomb until it's cooked.
Edit: Just read the post above. Of course this would turn out to be a white privilege thing. Black people got different meat, because racist butchers probably covered their food in grime on purpose. Fucking facepalm. I am so sorry you folks have to live with this fucking legacy of abuse.
Edit: Just read the post above. Of course this would turn out to be a white privilege thing. Black people got different meat, because racist butchers probably covered their food in grime on purpose. Fucking facepalm. I am so sorry you folks have to live with this fucking legacy of abuse.
Yeah everyone in my family always washed.
I think some of it is def cultural.
No, don't wash your meat. The only thing you're going to accomplish is spreading bacteria.
And what grime? Are you dragging your meat through the yard before cooking it?
And what grime? Are you dragging your meat through the yard before cooking it?
I've gone to tons of sketchy spots to get meat since it was nearby or the only affordable option.
I'm still not going to wash it since I'm not an idiot
If cooking it doesn't make it safe, washing it will do less than nothing.
Man some of you would die of food poisoning if you were left to fend for yourself in the woods lol, don't wash raw meat...
This is a cultural thing. I've seen discussions about this elsewhere. It mostly boils down to "Everyone I know in my community does it this way, this is how I learned how to do it, so I will keep doing it this way." because it is very hard to throw away generations of tradition based on reading an article by the CDC.
I've literally seen this info for 5 years straight every Xmas time on multiple TV channels. It isn't like somehow this information is hidden. It's absolutely OK for people to not know information outright, it's absolutely OK for people to not trust certain stuff without proof of what's said, but the idea that somehow when presented with the correct info and links to actual facts that you can then continue to claim you know better than experts with actual data and information available in this very thread is exactly the issue. The last part of my post is "why is it so hard to admit you're wrong and trust the experts" to which I've yet to see an actual reason when it comes to this data and the fact this thread has already had multiple people provide the correct information and multiple people refuse to accept it and still say they know better? But yes, I'm sure being a "cracker" is entirely the reason people in the thread have tried to correct this incorrect and honestly dangerous misconception when it comes to food and not because it goes against the experts knowledge on the health risks of doing so.
I was coming here to post just that, and you ruined it...
so why don't we give antivaxxers in hermetically sealed rural communities who basically listen only to their preachers/family and are told to distrust the government and mainstream media the same benefit of the doubt?
Definitely a lot of people not clear on others lived experiences or cultural differences.
Unabashed love for this.
A piece of why this might have caught on with some communities more than others. I'm also sure that people are assuming a lot about the how washing happens, based on what I'm seeing here. Do people think that we're just slapping chicken into the sink?
idk I started wearing a mask every day whenever I go out for the first time in my life because I was told to by experts. It wasn't really that hard to change from my entire basic livelihood prior to being informed it was safer to do so.
I did say I wash my rugs in the shower up above. Does that count?
This thread is fucking me up. You guys...like...you understand what happens to bacteria at 350+ degrees, right? Why the fuck are you washing your chicken lmao!
Unless people are washing meat in a public sink, who gives af what someone does with their food?
hahahah you're on a roll, op
my man
"but cOnTanMinAtinG your sink", then wash the damn sink, counter and backplate fool.
But the chicken will meet water and vinegar for an extended period before I eat. (whole pieces with skin on anyway. breast cutlets just get a water dunk and go.)
my man
"but cOnTanMinAtinG your sink", then wash the damn sink, counter and backplate fool.
But the chicken will meet water and vinegar for an extended period before I eat. (whole pieces with skin on anyway. breast cutlets just get a water dunk and go.)
Without reading the CDC's guidance (heat check), I'm assuming that the issue with washing meat is that the bacteria goes every which way like a sneeze. That said, the idea that people are concerned with a sink's sanitary-ness, makes it sound like people aren't washing their sink or anything else in their kitchen after cooking.
I use this reasoning when I pebbledash someone's bathroom wall instead of shitting in the toilet.
Just clean the wall, fool.
Rise with vinegar or lemon juice and water.
For chicken you clean off the excess fat, unremoved yellow layer on the skin (depending on the source), nasty blood and guts from the back portion and thighs.
It's also a good way to inspect what you are about to consume.
Don't listen to or eat from these gross people OP.....
For chicken you clean off the excess fat, unremoved yellow layer on the skin (depending on the source), nasty blood and guts from the back portion and thighs.
It's also a good way to inspect what you are about to consume.
Don't listen to or eat from these gross people OP.....
So…clean your entire kitchen every time you cook meat? And you've got separate rags for the meat and general cleaning, right? Because "washing" your sink and counter and backplate isn't going to do jack fucking shit if you're not using a towel/rag either. Congrats, you now have a towel/rag thats dripping wet with chicken juice. Where do you put that? In the hamper with your other towels? Or you just use paper towels and spend $ each time to "wash" your kitchen.
Or. Just don't wash your chicken.
Two very difficult choices
You know every public restaurant you've ever eaten at doesn't wash or rinse their meat?
Please get a meat thermometer so you're not making undercooked food.
Apparently this is due to generations of ignorance and an inability to admit that you've been wrong.
This. Nasty meat juice does directly down the drain. I season and then the plastic goes straight in the recycling bin outside.
the cdc guideline isn't unknown, but they basically tell me that that chicken slaughterhouse slime is okay to eat and I say, nah, i'm good.
there's all sorts of ways to manage your water without splashing a firehose or even a mild spritz if you're worried about that. bowls, bags, containers and so on.
i know people like to unload responsibility and just lean back into government guidelines, but the people who wash their meats have been taking proactive responsibility for their own wellbeing for longer, since before the government made an attempt to care.
Since we're talking about science, science has already said that people don't reflexively trust experts when their conclusions go against deeply ingrained beliefs and practices, so the pushback should not actually be so frustrating to such a rational person as yourself. Science also definitely says it's not a shocker that people don't change their minds immediately when presented with mockery by no-names on the Internet who, again, failed to take the five seconds necessary to try and figure out why people might do something they themselves don't do. This attitude, by the way, of sneering mockery, sarcasm, and implied intellectual superiority when minorities are presenting you with the cultural reasons for why they have always done something that you don't do, is indeed crackery, and it's one of many reasons Era is so fucking insufferable.
I want to signal boost this.. it's completely unnecessary to wash raw meat when it comes from grocery store. It's a whole other question if someone is processing their own carcasses.
Like if I buy a slab of salmon from Aldi/Lidl and take the skin off with a knife. Then I'll wash the meat after to remove the remaining scales. There's no point, at least to me to wash the salmon before and after I cut the skin off. Then I wash the cutting board knife and counter.
Washing a rib roast before seasoning the meat? That seems like extra work for no reason.
Washing a rib roast before seasoning the meat? That seems like extra work for no reason.
Definitely a Black American thing (but not exclusively for sure). I guess I shouldn't have been surprised at people being like, "Eww, washing meat???" when for a lot of us that's just the way it's been.
Yall are nasty, that's why I don't eat out like that.
Do you wash raw chicken before you cook it
https://www.health.com/food/cdc-raw-chicken?amp=true Apparently this is a thing and ive never heard of it before. People wash their meat in the kitchen for some reason before cooking, I guess to make it safer to eat? Era, can someone let me know why you do this or if you do it at all
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