• Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
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    ITT: people who undercook their chicken think that washing is what’s saving them when in reality, washing your chicken only enables a host of cross-contamination issues. Congratulations for turning your sink into a biohazard facility.

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      Red meat can be eaten rare, because even if the inside is raw, it’s not usually contaminated by anything dangerous, while chicken meat has to be throughly cooked because it’s the opposite… So washing the outside is useless.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        Only if it’s a slab of meat, like a steak. Ground meat mixes up all those contaminants, so unless you grind it yourself from a slab with the outsides cut off (still iffy), cook your ground meat thoroughly (medium well is probably enough). You can get away with a sear on pretty fresh steak though.

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          And then there are the Germans, eating raw ground pork on a bun.
          It seems, you can get away with raw meat, if you buy it freshly ground from the butcher.

          Edit: wrong kind of meat

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              I buy my filet américain at my local grocery store. It is made of a beef/pork mix (the fancier the more beef) and usually has an expiry date of T+2 days thanks to the added preservatives.

              Industrially processing raw meat is perfectly doable, much to the Americans’ utter disbelief. Belgium has entire specialized industrial supply chains for the massive local demand of raw ground meat bread spread.

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                Certainly, it’s just a lot more work than the less sanitary “chuck the extra meat into the grinder” method we use here.

                I’d love to try that raw beef spread BTW. I’ve had beef sashimi before, and it was great.

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            On a bun? That’s Mett and it’s pork. Yes, ground raw pork. It’s quite tasty. Sprinkle of onion usually.

  • Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca
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    Unwashed Chicken is totally safe if you do this one amazing trick.

    Cook it properly.

    If you don’t know how to do that by sight or touch then buy yourself a instant read thermometer.

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      Washed chicken won’t be any safer if it’s undercooked, salmonella isn’t a surface only danger, so you can remove the “unwashed” part at the beginning.

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        Washed chicken is a stupid concept, I was including the unwashed part because that is the default state of uncooked chicken.

        Unless you accidentally drop a chicken on the floor and don’t want to waste it, there isn’t a reason to wash it.

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        Are you crazy? I’ve been seasoning that thing for years, I don’t want to ruin it by washing it!

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          it should be almost done marinating now. Can’t wait to put it in the oven, next to the dish rack

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      Yeah, I remember seeing some clip of some British science woman and whatever, washing chicken is not only fucking dumv, but a great way to spread bacteria

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        Yea, there was a short series a few years ago with a cute blonde (hey, she gets guys to watch).

        She visited a lab and demonstrated very clearly why washing chicken is a bad idea.

        And how much difference soap makes when washing your hands, especially after handling something like chicken.

        She also covered a bunch of chemical uage from the Victorian era.

        Wish I could remember the show name for you.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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          she gets guys to watch

          Can confirm, I clicked on NBTV and Eric Talks Money because the girl be cute, and I stayed because the info is good. I’m happily married, and can confirm it absolutely works. I wouldn’t be surprised if the same works on women and people of other genders and sexual orientations with the respective gender.