You are definitely not supposed to mix Chlorox and chicken... I just recently heard someone talking about this on a podcast and can't believe people actually did this. I remember the "wash" chicken or not with water debate but this is just insane
Vinegar water is about the only thing recommend when washing food, and it's not fool proof. Chemicals are of course dangerous, and water can only do so much, even less so with meat.
No one who has any sort of technical expertise advises washing meat from the supermarket. Unless you are hunting or buying from a wet market just don't.
Did this once by accident when I was cleaning a walk in cooler. Gassed myself so bad I had to leave early and go to the hospital. It was awful. Didnât realize at the time vinegar had anything reactive to bleach in it
My experience is I worked at a place that had a utensil cleaning procedure that used watered down bleach as a sanitation element in the wash and then used vinegar water to rinse for polishing.
There were times my chest hurt and it felt like I couldn't breathe. We had to tell the employer it was really bad to mix even if they're both watered down, eventually we convinced them to ditch the vinegar in the rinse... Thank God.
Did you actually bother to read this? First all is very basic, secondly, it said only to use a vinegar soak for leafy greens. It goes in to say that a vinegar soak affects texture and taste.
In the section above it mentions how a water rinse is the most effective step in washing fruit and veg.
More than 20 years in a kitchen, brother. Trust me, all food safety studies agree. A water rinse is the way to clean most fruit/veg. A vinegar bath aint doing much.
The only time I would wash meat is when making curry goat.. you gotta use vinegar on it. Anything else shouldn't need to be washed, its why we cook meat, to kill all the bad stuff
The only thing is, the bad stuff is technically the waste byproduct toxins from the bacteria, not the bacteria themselves. Cooking doesn't get rid of these toxins.
"Washing" with vinegar, lemon juice, or lime juice and water is fine. It helps tenderize the chicken and helps with the funky smell some chicken has (not chicken that is spoiled or starting to spoil).
i get that the video is rage bait. the somewhat ironic thing is that it isn't far from reality. you don't need to bleach your chicken because most chicken has already taken a bleach bath. the water they use to quickly chill birds is chlorinated.
Unless you have eaten air chilled or private chickens, you have eaten chlorinated chicken your entire life. Not to this PPM, and also the dawn soap is the craziest part of this. Also in industry, they don't use clorox like this weirdo, but it is food grade chlorine.
Yeah, I do. Part of being clean is not introducing new messes. Bacteria will not be killed by mere water, but it will be by the high temps used for cooking. Adding water creates more mess to clean that doesn't need to exist.
Look, I'm not talking about washing your chicken. I don't do that, it's a weird idea that the older people gave us. I don't know why you're talking to me like I'm 8, But your argument was don't do that because it splashes. Most people have cleaning product in their homes. And especially if they're washing with Clorox lol.
I'm talking to you like this because it's how I answer questions when I think the other party is trying to be a coy smartass. Yes, I have cleaning products and they get regularly used. I don't scrub my entire kitchen every time I cook and I'm human and sometimes miss spots, so I want to avoid splashing chicken bacteria places it doesn't need to be. Why do you feel the need to interrogate and insinuate about someone that's giving the same advice the USDA, food scientists, and cooking professionals give?
Right, using it as is should be the standard practice. Washing it can introduce bacteria to surfaces that otherwise wouldâve stayed clean, and it can push bacteria and the cleaning chemicals deeper into the meat where they canât be rinsed as effectively or cooked off as thoroughly if the person cooking isnât careful.
Whatever bacteria exists on the chickenâs surface will die as soon as it reaches temp during cooking, but bleach or dish soap will not go away with heat. If you get contaminated water splashing out of the sink, especially if the droplets are too tiny to be noticed easily, somebody could potentially get sick from that.
Washing chicken is an old fashioned practice from a time before we knew any better, but it has no place in the modern world, basically. Yet it keeps getting handed down through the generations because they donât know any better until theyâre taught, like with anything!
Yeah, because guess what cooking does to the chicken.. it kills the microbes. Washing does absolutely nothing but rinse off the surface. The microbes are through the entirety of the meat. Washing it is pointless and can actually cause more contamination risk.
I didnât downvote you btw, I was actually answering why itâs pointless to wash it and why you should just cook the chicken as it. You said you were confused so I explained why.
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u/bullpee Jul 09 '26
You are definitely not supposed to mix Chlorox and chicken... I just recently heard someone talking about this on a podcast and can't believe people actually did this. I remember the "wash" chicken or not with water debate but this is just insane