Washing Chicken

[belrec]

Morning to all in AB land,

Heard a story on the radio the other day about how if you wash chicken before you cook it you are at higher risk of getting food poisoning because the washing spreads the germs around the kitchen.

I never wash chicken before I cook it and was amazed to hear that so many people obviously do that it is a problem.

So I wondered if anyone else actually washes chicken?

[Prudie]

No I stopped doing that ages ago when I heard about splashing the germs around. I rarely wash anything, including fruit and veg.

[kvalidir]

No never. We also have colour coded chopping boards in our kitchen and the meat is only ever prepared uncooked on one small area of work surface away form everything else on the red chopping board. We don't get food poisoning maybe because we're quite careful or maybe because we're just lucky.

[EcclesCake]

The only time I wash any meat or fish is after I've gutted it.

[mccfluff]

never wash meat.

[mccfluff]

actually i don't think i wash anything (foodwise before some smartarse pops up)

[McMouse]

We never wash meat or chicken though our local authority requests that plastic containers be wasted before recycling. Following the radio programme we've now stopped washing them before binning.

[EcclesCake]

I don't wash much either. It does depend on whether it is super sanitised supermarket stuff or muddy organic veg box/farmers market stuff though. Tired of find a caterpillar rising to the surface of the sauce pan because I could be @rsed washing the kale :-(

[mccfluff]

i like surprise salad

[Barmaid]

I never wash anything. Unless it is caked in mud or pongs a bit.

[belrec]

Thanks for your answers guys.

So where are all these myriads of people who wash their chicken and get food poisoning?

Who knows :-)

[kvalidir]

I imagine they're too ill to answer :)

[Canary42]

///So where are all these myriads of people who wash their chicken and get food poisoning? ///

Dead

[knowabit]

I always wash chicken breasts before cutting them up for cooking.. I, nor anyone I have ever cooked for, has had food poisoning or bee ill thru my chicken!