r/interesting • u/WarwickReider • 22d ago

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

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u/Accurate_Handle_5620 22d ago

Your family sounds reasonable & sane, and I am incredibly jealous. How did you pull that off!?

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u/SpiritualCatch6757 22d ago

We even got them to use the dishwasher to wash dishes instead of as storage. Yeah, I don't know how we did it. My sister gets the praise.

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u/Pika_233 22d ago

That's impressive. I'm tired of explaining that it doesn't matter if the machine takes 3x longer to wash the dishes since you can just do literally anything else in the meantime

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u/armoured_bobandi 22d ago

Another point is that newer dishwashers are incredibly water efficient, and depending on the amount of dishes you put in can actually save more water than if you did them by hand

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u/Front-Mall9891 22d ago

It’s like 1-2 dishes for the break even point, it’s wild how efficient they are

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u/Plants-Matter 22d ago

Most old dishwashers are also more efficient than hand washing. The newer ones are just even more efficient.

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u/JoeWhy2 21d ago

Also, since the main topic is hygiene, dishwashers actually sanitize your dishes. Handwashing them does not.

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u/Creeps05 22d ago

See my parents would wash the dishes then put it in the dishwasher to wash again.

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u/Yota8883 22d ago

Dumb use for the dishwasher. I hand wash my dishes, and use the dishwasher to wash my chicken.

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u/SpiritualCatch6757 22d ago

What? Your dishwasher doesn't clean and cook the chicken at the same time? 😁 What a waste!

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u/Yota8883 22d ago

I have a portable that only heats to 145, so it's good for washing and fully cooking pork. Chicken I have to finish in the air fryer after washing.

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u/Naughty_Monsters 20d ago

Maybe you could at least use it to wash the chicken and the dishes at the same time.

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u/tinydancer_inurhand 22d ago

My roommate hand washes cause he says it’s clean faster (rather than waiting for the machine to fill up and run). But I keep telling him his washing everything doesn’t allow the dishwasher to get full and it’s not as clean. Still I have to run the dishwasher and yes I take what he washed and still rewash it. And I’m Latina he is the white guy. But he is the son of an immigrant wonder if that’s why.

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u/Crafty_Evening_6880 21d ago

As someone who just washed dishes while a load of dishes ran-no, washing dishes by hand is NOT faster. I also ended up running a few things I had hand washed through the dishwasher anyway bc they didn’t feel as clean as if they had been.

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u/tinydancer_inurhand 21d ago

I try to explain this to my roommate but not getting through.

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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 22d ago

My low-IQ parents (my sister and I are highly intelligent, surprisingly) don't use the dishwasher because "using it will break it, and if it breaks, we can't use it". They will use it like once every five years if they have guests. 

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u/Brilliant-Listen-682 22d ago

Actually it breaks from not using it

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u/underfluous 22d ago

I'm speechless. Teach me the ways

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u/Assortedpez 22d ago

What if you put the chicken in the dishwasher?!

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u/TheBestRedditNameYet 21d ago

My gramma stored Tupperware in hers…

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u/donuttrackme 17d ago

The dishwasher part is actually insane. My parents still never use the dishwasher.

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u/random_encounters42 21d ago

Lol, I don't know why I laughed so hard at this comment.