I think it’s just how boomers were raised. I’m middle-aged and I don’t wash chicken, but my boomer mom is horrified at the thought. She came for a visit and made sure I washed the chicken before I cooked with it. 🙄
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zephorah@lemm.ee 4 days ago
As a middle aged person who is generally healthy, I’ve never washed chicken. On a side note, we eat chicken weekly. I’ve not experienced diarrhea, or been really sick, or died post chicken eating. I could safely say 1/2 of the days of the year, at least, involve basic butcher parted out chicken, and it is delicious.
Washing a backyard/farm chicken post killing/plucking to remove blood and debris, sure. But what is the logic behind this strange internet trend?
klemptor@startrek.website 4 days ago
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I had told my mom to go sit down and get out of my kitchen for less.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 4 days ago
I’ve not met a single “boomer” that does this.
klemptor@startrek.website 4 days ago
So weird, maybe it’s just the ones I know. I’m probably stereotyping them!
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
My parents are boomers and don’t do this. Not a big sample, but it’s what I’ve got.
lath@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The idea would be that due to suspected unsanitary conditions in which mass-produced meat products are collected and transported, additional substances and materials not fit for consumption become attached and go unnoticed.
Washing would remove the extra stuff supposedly.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
So why only chicken then?
lath@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Because it’s the topic of this discussion?
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Look at the comments and no one mentioned any other type of meat, it’s only chicken that they wash.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 4 days ago
You, like me, probably just cook the chicken properly.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Washed or not, chicken needs to be cooked properly, there’s nothing people do by washing the outside that will kill the salmonella inside the muscle. Hell, cooking will kill it on the surface right away so I don’t know what people think they’re doing by washing the outside!
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I could see it in a factory/large kitchen setting, as in:
The chef then cooks with the chicken, sanitizing hands between steps, and the purpose of washing the chicken is to reduce the amount of bacteria spread between washings. Production kitchens are busy places, and having more checks can help prevent issues if some are skipped/performed inadequately.
It makes no sense in home or small kitchens though and would likely do more harm than good.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I’ve worked in a large kitchen and my girlfriend has worked in kitchens in the healthcare system and nope, your wouldn’t wash chicken in a kitchen environment, maybe in factories where it makes sense to have space for that, but in a kitchen you would never lose space to build something that is basically a cross contamination room.