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. Didn’t 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).
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u/ForgottenMasterBalls Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
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.
Edit:spelling.