powerplantop
Executive Chef
Yep turning the water on full blast to wash your bird can spread germs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZXDotD4p9c&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZXDotD4p9c&feature=youtu.be
Yep turning the water on full blast to wash your bird can spread germs.
I do use a plastic cutting board for cutting up chicken and everything else. I got rid of my wooden ones quite a while ago.
Wooden cutting boards are actually safer than plastic: UC-Davis Food Safety Laboratory: Cutting Board Research
And check this out: http://www.discusscooking.com/forums/f88/cutting-board-wood-acrylic-or-something-else-82564.html
Yes, but.
Then plastic boards go into the DW which sanitizes them by subjecting them to high temperature water.
Maybe. Scarring on the plastic surface from knife cuts can harbor bacteria and I believe it's possible they may survive the dishwasher. You may reach a different conclusion
Actually you may have made a mistake doing that. I read an article in the Daily Telegraph a few years back about some research which was done by ? and which showed that bacteria survived better on plastic than wood. Something to do with the enzymes in the wood destroying them IIRC, whereas the nasty little beasties get into the knife cuts in the plastic and breed (No they don't breed, they divide and multiply.)Mercy! I rinse my chicken really well, rubbing the water all over it. But I clean the sink and surrounding areas with Clorox Clean-Up afterwards.
No one here has gotten sick or died yet from my chicken rinsing, but it's probably a good idea to clean up the area after rinsing it.
I did read the article, and maybe taking the chicken out to the backyard and rinsing it with the hose is an idea, if you're really worried about bugs.
I do use a plastic cutting board for cutting up chicken and everything else. I got rid of my wooden ones quite a while ago.
I just take mine to the car wash...
That is a pretty old news.
Exactly.If the chicken comes in one of those plastic wrapped trays from the grocery store I wash it and dry it before using. If I buy it from the butchers counter and they are wrapped in paper they don't seem to need to be rinsed off.
Don't take it to heart, Creative. We get like this sometimes but we don't mean any harm.Is it? Well it may be known to some but I heard about it on the radio as current news hence why I posted the info.
I have never washed a chicken, since cooking the chicken properly is sufficient to kill all bacteria. I have not found the chicken to be slimy in its packaging. I am in the UK.
(I do wash fish though to rid of slime. I descale certain fish inside a large plastic bag).
Re. chopping boards. I have a plastic one and use hot water and washing up liquid on it vigorously if I have cut up meat on it. Occasionally I scrub it with salt.
Don't take it to heart, Creative. We get like this sometimes but we don't mean any harm.
Don't let it put you off us.
Chicken purchased in most grocery stores, and packed in plastic, is injected with a brine solution to add flavor, or so says the package. It also adds weight, allowing the store to charge you more money, as the chicken is sold by weight. That extra brine is not natural to the bird, and will leak out of the flesh, making the chicken seem slimy. Chickens that I've butchered myself are not slimy at all. They also have more flavor because their natural flavor isn't diluted by add water.
Organic chicken simply means that it was fed food that is free of pesticides, and man-made vitamins. The processing of the chicken after it's butchered, in large part, determines the quality of the product that goes into your recipes.
I am convinced that truly free-ranged chickens are more healthy, and flavorful because they eat what they were designed to eat, grains, bugs, worms, mice, etc. Chickens are omnivores. In addition to diet, they get more exercise, which pumps more blood through the muscles, which in turn make the meat more flavorful.
Sadly, due to ridiculous laws, most of us are not allowed to raise our own poultry, of any kind. We have to rely on what's available to us. To me, our nation is sad. We let the urban population, much of which have never seen a farm, or know anything about food, control what is available to us. And what they do know, is force fed to them by an industry that is concerned primarily with profit, not quality.
At least, that's how I see it.
Seeeeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North