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Do u clean your meat before cooking it?


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56 minutes ago, Naraku4656 said:

Washing chicken isn't recommended by the CDC

Washing any meat is not recommended. You mainly wash things like produce. 

Scrubbing or rinsing meats does nothing beneficial. It can spread loosely attached bacteria present on the surface of the meat and potentially cross contaminate everything else around it.  

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https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/food-safety-education/get-answers/food-safety-fact-sheets/safe-food-handling/washing-food-does-it-promote-food-safety/washing-food

Washing raw poultry, beef, pork, lamb, or veal before cooking it is not recommended. Bacteria in raw meat and poultry juices can be spread to other foods, utensils, and surfaces. We call this cross-contamination.

Some consumers think they are removing bacteria and making their meat or poultry safe. However, some of the bacteria are so tightly attached that you could not remove them no matter how many times you washed. But there are other types of bacteria that can be easily washed off and splashed on the surfaces of your kitchen. Failure to clean these contaminated areas can lead to foodborne illness. Cooking (baking, broiling, boiling, and grilling) to the right temperature kills the bacteria, so washing food is not necessary.

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I rinse all meat off before preparing it. 

If you rinse it off like a person who has some sense, it won't splash all over the place and contaminate anything.

Been doing it forever, and never contaminated anything.

Fuck the CDC. They are telling you not to rinse it so they can unleash the zombie apocalypse. 

Now, excuse me while I go cook my pork chop in the toaster oven.

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9 minutes ago, scoobdog said:

The only time you wash your meat is when you drop it in the dirt and you gotta clean it so that you don't broil dirt into your pork chop... in the toaster oven.

So this thread prompted me to do a Google search. I found a thread where people were talking about "washing" the meat that were actually brining it by soaking it in salt water or vinegar, and thought that the proteins breaking down in the brine were pieces of dirt or something.

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1 minute ago, Athena 92 said:

So this thread prompted me to do a Google search. I found a thread where people were talking about "washing" the meat that were actually brining it by soaking it in salt water or vinegar, and thought that the proteins breaking down in the brine were pieces of dirt or something.

Lol wut?

The only meat I know of that absolutely needs to be washed is corned beef in order to eliminate all the heavy brine.

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Just now, scoobdog said:

Lol wut?

The only meat I know of that absolutely needs to be washed is corned beef in order to eliminate all the heavy brine.

https://madamenoire.com/1022800/washing-meat-before-cooking/

"put a piece of chicken in a bowl of vinegar or salt and water and watch what comes off it and tell me again that you ain't washing meat - that's just nasty - meat is gross, the processing of meat is gross"

"bullchit.. have you ever sat a chicken in a bowl of vinegar or salt and water and watch all the muck yuck and gook that floats to the top - gross - wash everything that's why mofo's out here getting salmonella and ecoli... disgusting...... that's why white people chicken taste like chicken fridge to pan....ha ha ha ha"

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I rinse poultry sometimes, but normally you don't need to.

Considering I worked in a processing facility that handled it, and my mother has been in food safety for 20 years and doesn't rinse off meat, I'd say it's ok not to.

Poultry is the filthiest of all meats, so if I buy like Perdue or some shitty brand then I will... but usually if I buy Perdue it's because I am going flounder fishing and need bait or I am deep frying it in beer batter.

 

Deer meat and fish get an extra rinse either before it is bagged or before it's cooked... usually the former so I don't have to worry about it later.

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No. You don't wash meat before cooking it. Process is this.

  1. Wash your hands for at least 20 seconds
  2. Take out your meat, cut as needed, season/rub meat, do whatever the fuck else you need to do to prep
  3. Wash hands after touching meat or before touching a different type of meat. Otherwise, cross-contamination happens. This is bad, and will make people sick or kill them. In other words: Beef on beef = OK, beef on chicken = NOT OKAY
  4. Cook your fucking meat. Once they are cooked, it doesn't matter if they touch or not.
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6 hours ago, fuggstop said:

Im learning people dont. Probably same people who dont scrub themselves with something when they bathe.

I scrub my meat with my bath brush and ajax then I use the meat to wash my body and THEN I eat it.

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