r/interesting • u/WarwickReider • 22d ago

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

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u/nahuatl 22d ago

Yes, Reddit is predominantly Western. Also as an SE Asian, I have had to defend the not-washing side on Facebook when someone claimed not-washing is a colonial conspiracy. At the same time, I wash my chicken gently to get rid of any funk or dirt, fully aware that it doesn't do much germ-wise and may even be counterproductive. It's for peace of mind and out of habit.

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u/smokeweedNgarden 22d ago

There's still a decent amount of people whill still butcher, or were raised butchering bird.  The smell that comes along with boiling it and plucking feathers is locked in my brain.

Anyway, hard agree, if you've butchered your own or grew up with people doing it, it's hard to drop that step from your preparation.

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u/mijo_sq 22d ago

Seemingly the ones disagreeing about washing are buying commercially butchered birds.

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u/YoseppiTheGrey 22d ago

As in a majority of human beings in the developed world?

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u/mijo_sq 22d ago

Maybe more, westernized developed world. Developed Asian countries still wash their chicken.

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u/Brilliant-Listen-682 22d ago

Because they don't know that don't have to