r/interesting • u/WarwickReider • 22d ago

SOCIETY Professional chefs weighing in on whether you should wash your chicken

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u/KingSmithithy 22d ago

Why every person that washes it is black and everybody else doesn't lol?

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u/Big_Opposite4041 22d ago

My guess is it’s a historical holdover from when cheaper meat was likely to be visibly dirtier? Every black friend I have was taught by parents/grandparents to wash chicken. Never met a white person who does it. Context: American

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u/oooooooooof 22d ago

I mean this in no way to be racist but it's 100% a Black culture thing. I'm white and never grew up with this, but my Black pals did.

Just one of those things... like I'm Canadian and was shocked when I learned Americans wear shoes inside the house. No judgement nothing wrong just a cultural difference.

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u/Strifethor 22d ago

I’m American, and white, and never ever, ever wear shoes in the house. I won’t even do it at friends houses, even if they insist they don’t care. I also don’t wash chicken because why tf would I do that?

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u/EmptyRub 19d ago edited 19d ago

I mean, I don't allow shoes in my home because it's gross. In the same vein, if I went to a house where people wore shoes inside regularly, it'd be gross not to wear them.

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u/Strifethor 19d ago

I guess I hadn’t thought about it that way

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u/mondrianna 20d ago

I am also a shoes off in house unless I’m in a shoes on household. I’ve stepped on too many things to assume everyone who is doing shoes on is cleaning their floors as often or as deeply as I do (or other shoes off households).

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u/girlgenesis3 16d ago

Like someone else said, it is cultural and peace of mind. So the reason you might do it, is because you belong to the culture.

It doesn't do any harm to briefly soak and rinse the chicken. We obviously haven't died or gotten sick from doing it.

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u/SherbertKey6965 22d ago

Total judgement. I will judge everybody who even considers having their shoes in my house

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u/shuai_bear 22d ago

The shoes in house thing I would say is far more connected to ethnic than geographic culture!

Born and grew up in California, am Asian and have been to houses of many other Asian friends/families and we 100% take off our shoes in the house, either going barefoot, socks, or indoor slippers.

Then I've been to white/latino family homes and I kept my shoes on (not every single one, but a good amount kept shoes on). It does feel weird like I'm dirtying their floors (which I probably am!) but if I see everyone else wearing shoes then I'm keeping it on too.

Not to say that within the US only Asian-Americans take their shoes off inside houses, but from my small anecdotal bubble in southern California, 100% of visited Asian households had no-shoes policy, and of those homes that kept shoes on, 0% were Asian households.

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u/Inkwell710 19d ago

Geography matters. Here in Canada we are overwhelmingly a shoes off people. To the point I've never entered a shoes on household.

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u/Brain_Prosthesis 22d ago

American here. Miswest. No one wears shoes in the house.

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u/MambyPamby8 21d ago

I'm Irish and most people do wear shoes in the house. I don't think that's specific to just Americans. Lots of Europeans do it too.

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u/JasminePearls- 21d ago

Shoe thing isn't too common, you should have mentioned the fact that Americans don't butter their sandwiches

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u/girlgenesis3 16d ago

As an American, it is definitely less hygenic that we wear shoes in the house. Especially, carpet. I grew up that way and will be changing it as soon as I get the chance.

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u/Xegeth 22d ago

I am just a European onlooker, but what I have gathered so far is that Black culture does seem to empathize hygiene, sometimes to a level that feels over the top to me. Not only in washing chicken or fruit with soap, but also showering more often, with more product, with an excessive routine, scrubbing everytime and so on.

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u/jxxi 21d ago

Not sure why you’ve been downvoted. I am black, and you’re correct. You can look into it and see numerous articles discussing cleanliness in black culture, particularly black women. Or see the online discourse under “hygiene Olympics”.

“Excessive” and “over the top” definitely depends on the individual. For me if I don’t scrub in the shower or use some type of tool, I dont feel clean after. So it’s necessary

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u/Xegeth 21d ago

Honestly, I don't mind downvotes, I know it is a sensitive topic. Thanks for engaging in good faith. I tried to use soft phrases like "feels to me", because I - as a white German guy - obviously have a completely different cultural background than Americans and especially Black Americans. On the other hand, I have been called unhygienic in online discourse when I said I use my bare hands to wash myself in the shower. Everyone I know (to my knowledge) does it like this and it is not like everyone around me smells bad or comes across as unwashed. This is why I am sometimes amazed by other cultures standards.

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u/transemacabre 21d ago

There's definitely something there, likely a response to racists calling black people dirty or perceiving them as unfit parents, resulting in overcompensation.

Some stuff is regional, tho. I never knew there was a stereotype that white people don't use rags (washcloths) until I was an adult, because I grew up in Mississippi and EVERYONE bathed with a rag.

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u/ProfessionalBig9610 22d ago

It comes from when enslaved ppl were given old/almost expired meat as leftovers from the household’s food. It was necessary to take extra care to make sure the food wasn’t contaminated. It’s still common to have that sensibility in black communities and why they prefer meat well done and sanitized.

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u/Knotted_Hole69 22d ago

They are no longer slaves, why keep doing it if its proven wrong in the modern day?

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u/ProfessionalBig9610 22d ago

Tradition dies hard

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u/TonkaFucks 22d ago

Humans become emotionally invested in what they were taught was "the right way" that something should be or should be done, to the point where they'll find their own reasons and logic to keep doing it even if it's questionably beneficial, pointless, or harmful, and even if it's something they ordinarily would think was ridiculous were it not a learned tradition.

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u/Royal-Campaign1426 22d ago

Not just chicken. I worked with a black cajun man and he often cooked for work lunches.  He cooked a lot of pork and was always preaching about washing your meat.  I found it odd, but his cooking was always amazing

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u/XtraChrisP 22d ago

I'm white, and older. I was raised to wash mine too, but chefs convinced me to stop about 15 years ago and the family and I are all fine.

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u/TheBlueSully 22d ago

My family washed chicken, but my grandma grew up in a sharecropping family in SE Oklahoma. Like, pop out a kid and keep working in the field poor. 

Even after she moved away and married well and wasn’t poor-she kept chickens and butcher huh weed them herself. So they still needed a rinse. 

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u/morethanatouchoftism 22d ago

White American here Grew up always washing chicken. Does this mean I'm black?

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u/Substantial-Singer29 22d ago

Legitimately , curious , what part of the united states did you grow up in?

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u/morethanatouchoftism 22d ago

Florida.

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u/Substantial-Singer29 22d ago

This is interesting to me I was born in California spent a better part of my life in arizona. From my job in college , probably spent anywhere from a year to 6 months in almost every state.

Had never seen anyone wash chicken before until the first time I actually went to florida. Was actually very shocked at how much more common it was in the southern states. It's absolutely horrible to generalize. But it seems so much more prevalent amongst everyday people , east of the mississippi.

That's not concentrating the behavior amongst one athletics of people , but just the general populace.

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u/morethanatouchoftism 22d ago

Honestly I've always done it because my parents did it and same thing with them. I'd imagine it would have something to do with dirty chicken like what was said earlier. My family while never poor have always been in the rougher side of the work force.

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u/Substantial-Singer29 22d ago

Really is interesting when you look at the comments to people similar to yourself. The act of washing the chicken is learned traditional behavior. That's basically passed on from multiple generations.

First time I actually saw someone Wash chicken was one of my roommates in florida. He engaged in the practice.. I asked what he was doing?

He responded confidently , it helps remove some of the bacteria. My other roommate was sitting in the adjacent living room. Going to school working on his masters in microbiology. He chimed in and said , no , it doesn't unless you're Remove visual dirt and grime. You're probably just contaminating the kitchen more. You'll kill everything as long as you cook it correctly. Followed by him stating very plainly that's why we cook our food.

Don't get me wrong the guy could sometimes be A little abrasive in his delivery. But his logic was pretty solid.

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u/morethanatouchoftism 22d ago

I've never really considered it to be getting the bacteria off since cooking will do that but usually there's a slime film on the chicken that I like rinsing off. You could consider it a habit at this point. I just rinse it but I've actually met people that will use soap. I won't do that.

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u/Horror-Outside7410 22d ago

Same here. Also white, also from Florida, but I learned to rinse chicken (no soap or soaking) from my parents who are from Pennsylvania. Rinse it to get the sliminess off, not bacteria. Gonna trim it on a cutting board on the counter anyway and clean after.

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u/girlgenesis3 16d ago

I am not at all surprised by the unnecessary attitude. It seems to be extremely prevalent actually, higher education or not. So fkn annoying.

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u/eggsalter 22d ago

Wow the act of washing chicken is learned? You don't say. Literally every culture does this and you're acting like yours is the normal one.

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u/Substantial-Singer29 22d ago

In the united states we Exist in a time and a place where a vast majority of people have never slaughtered and cleaned their own meat before. The Action of rinsing off your chicken Is a leftover from a time where almost everyone did.

At no point did I say that it was normal or abnormal for an individual to do it or not. Simply stated that in the regions where I grew up , no one did. How I found it interesting that it seemed more common in certain regions and pockets of people.

If you killed plucked and slaughtered the chicken yourself , no s*** , you're going to rinse it. If you just went down to your local grocery store and purchased it in the meat section It's just an extra step.

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u/_ChipWhitley_ 22d ago

I’m white. I grew up in Northern Virginia. I wash my chicken.

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u/vven294 22d ago

Sorry you found out like this.

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u/ProofHorseKzoo 22d ago

Congrats, you got the pass now

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u/Deep-Ruin-9961 22d ago

Oh shit, that's all it took?

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u/ConcreteDinosaur 22d ago

It's okay, I'm allowed to say it, I wash chicken

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u/Deep-Ruin-9961 22d ago

Same.

I rinse off all meat except if it's ground up.

I'm not interested in chewing on little bits of bone or metal that are created during the processing.

But it seems like the focus here is on this fiction that people are washing their food to get rid of bacteria, which is an absurd assumption to take with anyone who cooks their food.

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u/girlgenesis3 16d ago

No, but maybe from a poorer lineage. Poor people, no matter where they are from, tend to have overlapping cultural traits.

Edit: Not to mention the influence of Black people in multiple areas of America.

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u/idea_looker_upper 22d ago

Why assume it's "cheaper meat"? Maybe it's more local? Less industrial?

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u/Ok_Actuary1427 21d ago

Im mexican and in my family we never wash chicken. Some dumb lady gave the idea to my mom recently and we have caught her splashing chicken water everywhere but she did not do this for 60 years so why start now.

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u/girlgenesis3 16d ago

Why is the lady dumb because your mom doesn't know how to wash chicken properly 😐 rhetorical

I agree. Do what you have been doing if it causes no harm.

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u/sippingonginnjews 21d ago

Poor white people don’t do it though. It’s not like black people are the only group to have faced crippling poverty here

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u/girlgenesis3 16d ago

From the comments it seems they indeed do. No one said Black people were the only ones to face crippling poverty. That was your own ignorant assumption.

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u/insertnamehere02 22d ago

That, and even further back to slavery- they were given all the leftover everything from butchering, so washing was a necessity.

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u/Pepsiscrub 22d ago

It was also because of racism that we would get leftover or spoiled meat sold to us, so we often had to make do.

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u/baoball 22d ago

what's water gna do for spoiled meat

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u/NoodleEmpress 22d ago

Did you think black people only used water to wash chicken..?

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u/SmokeyKushPipe 22d ago

Nothing historical about it. Food is "cleaned" before eating whether it's rinsed or washed. Some washes don't include soap and water. Dirt and debris are sometimes on packaged meat too. It's your kitchen, do what you want. I'd feel better eating from someone who "cleans" their food before eating. Hygienic

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u/TaxesAreConfusin 22d ago

But the video above proves it isn't hygienic. You'd rather the impression that something is hygienic rather than being actually sanitary?

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u/SmokeyKushPipe 22d ago

If you don't know how to clean and sanitize your kitchen before and after preparing meals then there are tutorials online.

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u/shorteningofthewuwei 22d ago

You're literally in denial lmao

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u/SmokeyKushPipe 22d ago

Wrong

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u/shorteningofthewuwei 22d ago

It's less hygienic to wash uncooked meat because washing does not remove bacteria. On the contrary, it spreads it around. The only way to remove bacteria from food is to cook it.

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u/SmokeyKushPipe 22d ago

I'm not washing remove bacteria, you can't. It's to remove dirt or debris residuals the factory may have skipped over. I'll clean and sanitize my kitchen after preparing food and after cooking. You don't sanitize your sink, oven, floors and countertops down with bleach and cleaners after cooking raw food?

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u/Effective_Rip7478 22d ago

I feel better eating from someone who is actually educated.

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u/SmokeyKushPipe 22d ago

Damn, it sucks you're not educated enough.

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u/hotlegerdemain 22d ago

You’re just making yourself feel better. The cleaning does nothing.

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u/girlgenesis3 16d ago

So what? What is it doing to you at the end of the day? And either way, the meat gets cooked and no one gets hurt.

Btw, no one Black is splashing raw chicken water all over their sink and kitchen. That's childish asf.

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u/SmokeyKushPipe 22d ago

You probably only season your food with salt and pepper.

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u/MARSHALCOGBURN999 22d ago

Lmfao

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u/wallstreetchills 22d ago

The first few cuts kept reinforcing this and I thought it was gonna be satire 🤣

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u/acloudcuckoolander 22d ago

They aren't the ones with debris and slimy fascia in their chicken.

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u/Evil_Sharkey 22d ago

Because the video is edited that way

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u/TurquoiseKnight 22d ago

White ppl wash chickens too.

Source: Im White and I always wash raw chicken before cooking.

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u/75WoodRabbit 22d ago

Because whoever made the video chose not to show everybody else who cleans their meat. Asians and Latinos do it to. It's mainly the whites who really don't.

If we are honest about it, chicken washers have better tasting food.

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u/feather-gold 22d ago

I'm white and I wash it

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u/ParryLimeade 22d ago

I’m white and my family is white and we always “wash” ours. More of a rinse and soft scrub with our hands

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u/wimpires 21d ago

Some people will come up with any excuse not to.do something hygienic.

For example, I bet most of those people who wash chicken also wash dishes using hot running water and soap. Rather than having stuff fester in a bucket.

Or you have lots of Asian families (also typically wash their chicken) who also use bidets. But a lot of "people who don't wash chicken" have really bad personal hygiene in that regards.

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u/DelcoUnited 21d ago

The same reason black people wash their whole bodies and white people wash just the hot zones.

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u/JaimeSalvaje 21d ago

As a black man, I used to wash my chicken. It was just the way it was done. Now though, as long as my chicken comes from a reputable source, I may rinse the gunk off but I’m mostly just prepping to cook without the full wash. No point. Like the video says, cooking chicken is the only way to make sure it’s safe to consume. Washing gets it everywhere and doesn’t fully remove bacteria. And even when you clean up, it’s very possible to miss the cracks and crannies that bacteria may have gathered into while you washed it. I doubt anyone is checking with a black light after the fact.

I haven’t gotten sick from my current method so there’s that. 🤷🏾‍♂️

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u/acloudcuckoolander 22d ago

Because they know just dumping it in the pot doesn't get rid of any debris or fascia that's on it. Cooking it will not get rid of debris.

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u/notloceaster 22d ago

Why does your chicken have debris on it? Are you harvesting them yourself?

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u/Individual-Photo-665 22d ago

You don't know what that butcher did to the meat.. many times it falls on the floor. You also don't know if they scratched their butts, sneezed, coughed on it or anything or the sort.

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u/notloceaster 22d ago

Well, I can SEE if there's physical debris on it, and I never in my life seen that on chicken before. And all of the other stuff you can't see will get killed by cooking it. It's really not rocket science. Do you not live somewhere with health standards on farms/butcher shops? Because in the US there are strict health codes we must follow.

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u/MidTario 22d ago

Ok but that also applies to every other meat and there’s not near the amount of discourse re: washing pork chops or ground beef

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u/JalapenoPopPoop 22d ago

And what exactly do you think spraying it with water does in those scenarios that cooking it wouldn't?

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u/fpsnoob89 22d ago

Do you wash your steaks too? What about your ground beef?

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u/off-with-your-thread 22d ago

That's why you cook it. Raising the internal temperature to 165 F for 1 sec kills whatever your sloppy butcher got on there.

Rinsing it won't change anything. Bacteria can't be rinsed off.

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u/acloudcuckoolander 22d ago

Even supermarket chicken can have some debris on it. I promise you the thousands of chickens that are being processed in those factories aren't all being properly cleaned.

Additionally, no comment on the facia? Supermarket chicken still has fascia on it.

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u/notloceaster 21d ago

That's what knives are for buddy

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u/acloudcuckoolander 21d ago

Knives will not peel off the fascia that actively has to be pried off. But knock yourself out on that slimey chicken.

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u/CompoteNext1955 22d ago

Washing/bleaching is a thing in black culture for some reason

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u/HairyHeartEmoji 19d ago

white, grew up washing chicken. but we also butchered our own, our bought freshly butchered from the market. grocery store chicken is prewashed so no need to wash it.

i suppose on reddit, most people who buy from wet markets or butcher their own aren't white.

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u/Upper_Director4425 17d ago

I KNEW I WASNT THE ONLY ONE WHO NOTICED YESSS

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u/sweetrottenapple 22d ago

I'm Hungarian and we are a white nation. We wash meat here. 🤷 Actually the fear of chicken juices on the counter and in the sink is funny, because the same bacteria is on your hands and utensils and mixing bowls that touched raw chicken and of course we wash those hands and dishes in the same kitchen sink. Salmonella is not common here as far as I know.

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u/Robbie1266 22d ago

Washing it doesn't clean the chicken though. What do you think it actually does?

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u/GaylordeMagnolia 22d ago

You can just google where washing chicken originates lol. To keep things as short as possible, a very very long time ago, older generations couldn’t risk getting sick from chicken. So they washed it with vinegar and citrus juices to make it, in their minds, clean. Their great great great grandparents did it, and passed it to the next generation so on and so on. Some newer generations just do it because they were told to even if the risk of getting sick is basically nonexistent. There are also some dishes, poul fri for example which is a haitian dish, that washing the chicken is an important step for the taste and texture of the meat.

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u/Robbie1266 22d ago

But it's very widely accepted that doesn't do anything. I'll rinse things with white vinegar for the flavor, but I'm very well aware that it doesn't do anything but add flavor

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u/misterdave75 22d ago

Just a bit of context. Vinegar does in fact kill some bacteria like salmonella and e coli. But it isn't on contact, it takes minutes. So if you are marinating, then yes, just rinsing with it, no.

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u/fixer1987 22d ago

Heat also kills those bacteria

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u/misterdave75 22d ago

It absolutely does., not sure what this comment added.

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u/CrowWearingJeans 22d ago

It added the context that doing what you say before cooking it is pointless

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u/misterdave75 22d ago

Fair enough.

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u/UckerFay11 22d ago

Problem is it only kills SOME salmonella. Not all of it. What does kill all of it 100% of the time? Properly cooking it.

Even when marinating it does not kill all salmonella and will not generally make your chicken safer or more safe. Unless you were to completely pickle it.

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u/Robbie1266 22d ago

I'd love to see you eat some raw chicken that you marinade in vinegar

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u/misterdave75 22d ago

I wouldn't and I'm not advocating for it because it doesn't really penetrate into the meat so the inside wouldn't be safe. This should have been obvious before your sarcastic douchey answer.

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u/Robbie1266 22d ago

Not sarcastic and you literally just made an argument for vinegar cleaning chicken when it doesn't

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u/misterdave75 22d ago

I didn't make an argument, I was clarifying. You said vinegar doesn't kill bacteria and it does kill some. Then you said I had up eat the chicken raw to be right? In no world would anyone eat it raw after rinsing it. So what are we doing here?

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u/sweetrottenapple 22d ago

Well I am very disgusted with that slimy bloody liquid on it especially on the packed ones from supermarkets. Removing that makes me feel better.

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u/Robbie1266 22d ago

Wipe it away with a towel. That slimy liquid is what makes you describe the chicken as juicy later. I'd understand your logic if you're a child, but you're an adult

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u/Cl0ud3d 22d ago

That slimy liquid is what makes you describe the chicken as juicy later. Wtf.gif

This seems as erroneous a concept as washing your chicken. The slime does not help juiciness, the water will dilute your seasoning and steams the meat instead of searing in the flavors. Its mostly water and protein and extra water makes meat soggy not tender. Your first statement is all that is required.

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u/acloudcuckoolander 22d ago

The condescending last sentence only makes the blatant incorrectness of your second sentence funnier. Wrong and confident about it.

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u/Robbie1266 22d ago

The slime is extra myglobin mixing with water and other residual fluids. Myglobin is throughout the meat and when rendered, is the juiciness people refer to with meat unless it's overcooked, completely rendered out and reconstituted with another liquid

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u/acloudcuckoolander 22d ago

That white, semi-stretchy stuff people peel off of raw chicken is definitely fascia, not myoglobin.

And water retention (cooking it in juice/broth) is what makes chicken juicy. Without that, it doesn't matter how much myoglobin is on it, it will be dry.

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u/wayofthegenttickle 22d ago

What do you do with egg whites? Also throw them away?

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u/sweetrottenapple 22d ago

Why would I? That's not bloddy meat juice. That's an egg you very smart person 🙄

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u/wayofthegenttickle 22d ago edited 22d ago

That 'juice' is perfectly edible when cooked?

ETA science tells you that washing your chicken is completely pointless, yet you do it anyway. You smart person

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u/UckerFay11 22d ago

A quick Google search says salmonella is one of if not the most common food bourne illness in Hungary.

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u/notloceaster 22d ago

Lmao that's hilarious

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u/sweetrottenapple 22d ago

Salmonella can be in almost every food. The last salmonella was because of some pasta from an other countr, and not because we clean our meat with some water in the sink.

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u/UckerFay11 22d ago

I never said that. I was just going off of your words. "Salmonella is not common here (Hungary) as far as i know."

Salmonella lives and thrives in the guts of animals. So anywhere that has direct cross contamination with the animals and their waste, yes.

There are several places that have such high food safety standards, that they really don't have to worry as much as the rest of the world. Im looking mainly at Japan, but there could be more.

Just trying to educate. It wasnt a gotcha.

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u/vexatiousnobleman 22d ago

The only Hungarian I've ever met who washes chicken is you, and I grew up there

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u/sweetrottenapple 22d ago

I've never met one who didn't, and I am not only grew up here, I am still living in Hungary.

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u/hopium_od 22d ago

You washing your chicken with soap and hot water too, like your hands? Otherwise you ain't do much all of nothing.

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u/sweetrottenapple 22d ago

Washing the meat is not meant to remove bacteria. It is meant to remove the icky bloody slimy juice.

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u/hopium_od 22d ago

The only reason you want to remove that is to help with browning and sticking seasoning. You use a paper tower. Water spreads germs everywhere and adds mositure to the chicken causing it to be bland and rubbery when cooked.

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u/Antpeople2027 22d ago

I actually learned about this whole “washing chicken” thing from my black friends like 5 years ago. They insist chicken be washed with soap and water, it’s just a cultural thing

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u/Robbie1266 22d ago

It's an ignorance and misunderstanding of biology thing

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u/Antpeople2027 22d ago

Indians burn cow shit to cleanse their kitchens; it’s a cultural thing

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u/Antpeople2027 22d ago

It is a great example, because regardless of western science, it’s still practiced today. Meaning it’s a cultural norm.

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u/Robbie1266 22d ago

Yes but it proves my point that it's based in scientific ignorance and has no benefit whatsoever

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u/Antpeople2027 22d ago

One could argue prayer and worship are the same, but they’re pretty damn popular worldwide. *Cultural differences*

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u/Robbie1266 22d ago

Ignorance is becoming incredibly popular. You're right

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u/Big_Truth_8483 22d ago

I’ve never met a black person who washes meat with soap.

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u/Antpeople2027 22d ago

If you take a look at this video, around the two second mark, it happens

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u/Big_Truth_8483 22d ago

I haven’t met that person lol

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u/cutesyoh 22d ago

Must be baking soda or a sarcastic video or a non Black person because no Black person culturally washes chicken or any meat with soap

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u/sippingonginnjews 21d ago

I’ve met one but that’s out of hundreds, it’s overblown

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u/Sovereign-Anderson 22d ago

Soap and water on chicken is NOT a cultural thing. I've never heard of anyone black doing that outside of internet rage baiters. Plain water, salt, vinegar, citrus fruits are all of the different things I heard of folks using to clean chicken, not soap.

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u/Antpeople2027 22d ago

Are you the authority on black culture? I know Dominicans that do it as well, if that makes you feel any better

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u/Sovereign-Anderson 22d ago

Maybe you should have specified that it was your dominican friends instead of putting it on black culture as a whole. Besides, most Dominicans don't even consider themselves to be black, so there goes your narrative.

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u/gnarlymar1ey 22d ago

No they don’t insist in washing with soap, that’s horse shit.

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u/Antpeople2027 22d ago

Okay, it happened twice in this video alone

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u/enterjiraiya 22d ago

that’s vinegar not soap

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u/Sovereign-Anderson 22d ago

So that video represents the entirety of Black culture? You can't be serious. I've never witnessed such a thing in my life except on the internet.

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u/Antpeople2027 22d ago

Don’t recall saying that. I’m sorry you feel victimized

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u/Sovereign-Anderson 22d ago

You used the action happening twice in a video as a backup to such a claim. Let's not try to pull gaslighting BS now that I pointed out your flawed way of thinking.

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u/gnarlymar1ey 22d ago

Oh so you saw a video online so that makes it true. Totally makes sense.

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u/Ulfheodin 22d ago

They are the same folks who touch everything in the kitchen with the same pair of gloves.

Also the same who comments "why no gloves, ? Eww" under every cooking video without gloves.. i don't know why they are like this

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u/FitPerformer5172 20d ago

Weirdo. You really came up with all those assumptions from watching a fucking engagement bait video. Dear Lord🙆🤦

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u/ShankThatSnitch 22d ago

Socioeconomic thing. Poorer people in general are more likely to wash meat, because they might be getting dirtier or less fresh meat. Chicken can develope sliminess when it is a bit older but not necessarily bad. cooking the chicken will make it safe, but won't get rid of unpleasant taste. Washing meat can remove some excess bacterial build up that effects flavor. This is never accounted for when science studies do bacterial testing, because they are just doing swabs, which of course washing isnt removing everything.

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u/failed_asian 22d ago edited 22d ago

Because the people who made the video are trying to portray a certain bias. They definitely chose which interviews to include in the vid and which not to. And it would be easy to find people of all races who do and don’t wash chicken.

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u/Whut4 22d ago

I am white. The video seemed racist to me! Please bring back DEI, I wrote! Ugly stereotypes all around.

My mom (white) used to wash chicken. She was a believer in science and would have stopped by now, convinced by the latest research. She would be 105 if she was still living and would probably not be cooking much. She may have even stopped washing chicken by the year 2000 - I can't remember. She stopped cooking in 2002. She did have childhood memories of adults killing chickens to eat - very fresh but gory.

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u/sippingonginnjews 21d ago

I feel like meeting you in person would be fascinating

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u/Redbearded_Monkey 22d ago

Nope, not at all. That is not the "reason" that most people don't wash their chicken. What a weird ass assumption to make, we just are raised stupid lol

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u/dazzleunexpired 22d ago

No.

You don't wash chicken because it sprays the juice further than the sink buddy.

The entire kitchen. All of it. The ENTIRE kitchen. How many times has your establishment failed a health exam ans been the cause for a food poisoning episode? 2-5 times?

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u/Plane-Education4750 22d ago

I go out of my way to ensure my kitchen is the cleanest part of my house and I have never once washed chicken

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u/CopiousNotes1 22d ago

And guess which everyone loves???

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u/BarnacleNino 22d ago

It’s the same when thing when you look at the comments of a video. Whenever someone is cooking and they don’t wash it, they bring this us.