As a moroccan we wash it with salt and lime ( in a bowl )not for the bacteria but to get rid of the stale blood and bone debris so the chicken is much tastier
By wash, we asians mean a rinse with just water to get rid of physical sand, dirt, bone fragments, feather or whatever's been sitting on your butcher's floor. Not with soap!
Same and we usually wash to also reduce the smell of the raw meat and blood to better merge with spices otherwise chicken sometimes still carry the smell of raw meat even after cooking properly.
I think just the difference that a lot of people in west use pre packaged chicken which doesn't have dirt, etc and out here we purchase it from our local butcher making it a necessary step to get rid of sand, dirt etc. @@cabuncopy
Washing chicken is a black people thing. It's just the way we were raised. And also washing chicken helps get the feathers that need plucking out. I get it, everybody washes their chicken. - thanks for the likes
1 - the washing is usually done with vinegar, baking soda, salt and/or lemon, not dishsoap or any othr industrial soup 2 - yep, Clean as you cook, clean especially around your sink well, alwayssss edit: it's not necessarily abt killing bacteria, it helps with the freshness of the chicken, especially getting rid of stale blood and pieces of bone and blood clots
Everyone that said yes is used to cultures that got their chicken from local, wet markets that actually butchered and sold their meat, not retailers that bought theirs from processing plants. Most of the time, these wet markets did not have clean environments including dirt, sand, blood and feathers. Some people also butchered their own live poultry, so it made sense to clean out the innards, much like fresh fish. Also, most people clean them with small basins by rinsing them, NOT by splashing running water through them, especially in bigger batches.
Did you miss the part where they said they wash the chicken to get rid of bacteria? Anyone would clean the things you mentioned, this video is referring to bacteria specifically.
I’m white as shit, I wash my chicken and I bet I cook it way better. My Mexican friends praise me for my chicken. I be at all the bbqs. It ain’t about color it’s about the Individual ( white btw and I’ve never tried cooking chicken.. I do make a real good steak though )
Depends on what you call washing. I personally put the chicken in a large bowl with water, vinegar and lemon to “marinate” for a while before actually marinating it.
That’s fine. In the video he shows people washing it with soap and some of it gets in the inside which is not going to be fully rinsed out. I prefer germs that die in heat vs soap in my food
which you can do by soaking your chicken. Dont wash. There are safe ways to do things. But yeah ive never heard of dirt and debris in chicken. Even blood Ive never seen in chicken. Might be a different countries issue...
@@crazzynez Dirt or dust from the air that can’t be seen by naked eyes, BONE debris from cutting the chicken. And for sure blood, which runs in every arteries and veins of a chicken; I have yet to see a chicken without blood. Soak or wash, any means to clean the chicken using water instead of just cooking the chicken right away.
@@crazzynezi think people who wash actually soak it like you mentioned. The chef saying to wash literally never used the faucet like those on the other side, he soaked his in a bowl.
@@MrWengweng93if your chicken collects debris and dust you're definitely doing something wrong only thing to do is soak at most for stale blood but however if its fresh you probably wont need to do this
My mom said wash chicken to get factory/processing plant germs /goo off the meat itself. You'll notice if extra feathers, bone fragments, dirt or there excess skin you need to trim etc. It's not a wash with soap it's a lime or vinegar soak. Then rinse put the bird get it ready for the cooking vessel. Your water is not on full blast on the water. After the bird is ready, you scrub bleach, soap and hot water in the skin, all the utensils, cutting board etc Maybe it's a cultural, generational thing but I'll continue to do it. It's how I was raised.
@@SskelllI'm sure they clean it and get any microscopic debris out 100% of the time in every retail store or farm you're likely to buy it from, yes indeed. Health standards at maximum
@@Crease_BanditYeah I'm sure running cold water over your chicken is gonna remove all the microscopic dirt, microplastics and everything else water doesn't remove. Here's a fun thought: You ever think that the reason people don't care about or dont notice microscopic dirt is because its microscopic? I bet you if I served you two cuts of pan seared chicken breast, one washed and one not, you would notice absolutely no difference at all.
To b clear, no one is using dish soap. That’s not a thing. I have modified my method: A soak in a large bowl with vinegar, lime juice, salt and water. During this process I remove bone fragments, feathers, stringy fat, unwanted skin or any other unwanted stuff…A low pressure rinse and pat dry before seasoning. I then sanitize the counter top, sink, faucets, soap bottles before moving on.
You can’t see everywhere it splashed with the naked eye even if you tried to sanitize everything it can get on your clothes, floor, nearby clean dishes etc etc without you even noticing it’s so much easier to just season it and throw it in the oven or pan fry it etc etc a lot less chance of it spreading. Lime and vinegar only do a very small amount of killing bacteria, cooking it literally kills basically all bacteria
@@haydotzero3372in North America the majority of chicken is washed with a bleach wash before being packaged and shipped out to stores. So doubling up is a waste of time. A vinegar and lime or other acid is a great way to wash chicken as it'll tenderize the meat also. Cooking is the only way to kill the bacteria and a pre-wash/rinse only helps us feel better about the meat.
I worked at a chicken processing plant for a few years and I wash my chicken. Not for bacteria, but for whatever stuff might be leftover after the plant sprays it and it also gets off any slimy stuff.
Precisely. But then, there are people attacked me for never cooking and illogical. I mean, it is obvious not every chicken is cleaned thoroughly prior to packing, and we clean chicken for that reason.
The main problem is colonizing your sink with chicken bacteria, that's a fucking huge sanitary issue with washing chicken. You could use paper towel to pet it dry or gently scrub it, nothing more
I’ve never seen anyone wash a chicken by putting it under running water like that. A lot of places where there are contaminants that could be present on the chicken, it is customary to clean the chicken before cooking. Cleaning is normally putting it in a bowl with a natural disinfectant such as vinegar or lemon and putting water on top of that, not splashing chicken juices, everywhere contaminating the kitchen😂 that’s why you’ll see people from Island or coastal backgrounds do it because it is a part of the culture there.
For Caribbean people, We wash our chicken using lime juice or vinegar. We usually soak it in there for a few minutes then do it again. This process is mostly 4 rinses. Finally, we then rinse it with water. We also wash our rice in water
Jamaican guy had it on point. Whether you wash it or not, you WILL get bacterial juices on your counters and sink. Maybe the question should be “should you wash your kitchen after working with meat”. And holy shit, YES, how do you not after working with raw meat, washed or unwashed 🤦♂️
@@oldchunkofcoal2774cry in first world privilege, dear good sir. You try NOT washing your chicken in SE Asia, you get brown propellant out of your biological exhaust.
Bought some veggies for my green juice last week. All packages were marked "washed". I stubbornly still put mine to soak in a bit of baking soda water, guess what I found! A live SNAIL! this is in the Netherlands, beautiful modern, clean supermarket. Guys wash EVERYTHING!!! (I am Afro Caribbean, this is how I was raised)
I feel you. I’m from NL too. One time I bought spinace “pre washed” and for once I did not rinse it before eating. I was in a rush. I got so sick for 3 weeks diarrhea straight
raw meat is not the same as vegetables. only the surface of vegetables is actually filthy which is why it's safe to eat them raw after cleaning. no amount of cleaning can EVER make raw meat sanitary. only cooking. you're just being superstitious.
@@stinkmongerno one is eating the chicken raw 😂. They’re literally just putting acid on the chicken before cooking. You see people use acid to get rid of a fishy smell?
Yes, wash. Gently with lime or lemon juice and water. Or vinegar water. Then clean the sink and counters. Then you season the chicken. My experience is that once you clean then season/marinate, it can last longer in your fridge. And it's not just seasonings masking odors. Time and again.
This doesn’t look professionally divisive, it looks culturally divisive. I use saline & vinegar or lemon juice to clean my chicken. Aside from sanitizing it helps get the goopy or yucky stuff off the surface of the chicken.
Maybe regionally divisive? I'm in the med and a lot of people keep chickens here. You rinse them when you gut them, but you don't have to wash a chicken from the butchery. I might feel different if I knew it came from a huge factory, though.
@@Beeontreeit does tho. Any water droplet that touched the chicken and hit anywhere else is now potentially infected with solmonella. Just cook your chicken. It’s the only thing that kills bacteria
As an asian, for stew/soup chicken, we boil the chicken for around 15 minutes and discard the "wash" water, any dirt, loose fat, or blood will be dislodged, bacteria will mostly die, and you didn't make a mess.
That different. Vietnamese people do that. Those Americans that “wash” their chicken to “Fry it” are kinda dumb. Making Pho/ Stew and boiling the extra fat out is different then straight up washing it with water and lemon which is useless.
. So quick to try to make it seem like blacks in America are not supposed to wash chicken however, I've seen it done by so many other cultures. I was taught how to clean my chicken with vinegar and lemon juice from a Jamaican lol. I've seen plenty of asians, Africans and Filipinos wash their meat also. The only people who don't wash their meat are white people in America. However they weren't always known for being clean anyway. 🤷🏾
This makes the most sense. It would also get rid of that foamy scum when the chicken starts to boil. Fresh water would make the broth taste so much better too.
See this is how I was raised lmao! Like we never ever wash chicken in the sink because that’s just disgusting. Boiling first to get rid of impurity is the first thing for anything that has bone in it!
people think they're being smart but they're dumb as hell for not understanding why it WAS necessary to clean off chicken, and why it's NOT necessary in other countries. bacteria and pesticides had me dead 😂
This is a common misunderstanding of what wash means. It simply means clean. Technically we’re giving the chicken a rinse to remove any debris. Not using soap but a salt, lime or vinegar to remove any contaminates that for sure could have gotten on your food prior.
A lot of people arguing don't seem to realise that not every country cleans the chicken for them. Every time I buy chicken, there's gonna be tons of blood and stuff that'll have to be washed or the taste will change. It's not really about hygiene, its mostly just to avoid making something that tastes awful
@@_TeeVee_you gotta be careful with the generalizing, i know lots of white people that wash their chicken, and i have not seen anyone making fun of “white” people for not washing their chicken.
@@evrythingisayisfactzzlolll6642 I mean sure but as a white person, everyone white person and myself that I know doesn't wash their chicken. You can look throughout this comment section to see other ethnicities make fun of white people for not doing it, even saying we don't wash in general. Racism is racism
As a chef, I wash the chicken just to rid of any extra debris from liquids from the preservatives, small amount of blood and even feathers that may have been missed. As far as bacteria, that’s in the cooking process
This is the correct response... Don't trust the mechanical process especially when you want an awesome presentation. (Feathers take away from a good looking piece of chicken 😅)
Huh, i've always had a throughly washed chicken from the store. Never seen a feather, or blood. I always wondered how they are so perfect with it but i probably just don't buy enough chicken lol
Wash or not wash. I prepare my chicken I give it a gentle soft wash and some salt water I rub it there is a yellow film on the skin of some chickens I wash that off because it gives the chicken a subtle gamey flavor. Also feathers also if the chicken has been processed cut up there are bone fragments in marrow fragments on the skin of chicken. You don't wash your chicken I don't care it's safe to eat because there's no bacteria. But I don't want to eat it if you didn't wash it.
I'm not Jamaican..African American. I wash my meats like you do. That lemon, some salt and maybe some apple cider vinegar. Then there's a hood splash of dishwasher liquid and bleaching that sink and everything after it's been cleaned and prepped. Wash your hands frequently. Put your seasoning all in before you massage or mix it in. That way you don't contaminate your seasoning containers. 😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤ I don't care..I'm washing. I eat at home mostly anyways.
Do you mean marinating or cleaning? Big difference. If you need to clean your chicken, you are getting very low quality, poorly handled cheap dirty housed self cannabilising, sleeping in their own shit chickens.
@@elsosa7863We don't care care if it's organic chicken or run of the mill! We folks from the Caribbean will wash it, & other meats with lemon/lime/vinegar and sometimes salt! Many of us Haitians also take it a step further by washing with boiling hot water! The hot water is drained, the lime/lemon is thrown away & the meat rinsed one more time - before it's ready to be seasoned! You'll never eat any meat from Haitians and comment that it tastes gamey or funky!
I rinse my chicken to get rid of debris. Feathers, skin, fat, residue or debris from the processing plant, bits of plastic from packaging. Just anything that might end up in the chicken accidentally.
I'm from Trinidad...which is in the Caribbean...I think our culture teaches us to wash our meats before we season and marinate in order to cook ...and to be fair...I think that's why most foreigners enjoy our menus...😊
@@Yahya-sb1yowhen most people express "washing" their chicken, they're not meaning with soap products. Water, salt, lemon, or vinegar are often the various options chosen.
Its not about bacteria, only cooking will take care of that. Its about making sure there's no extra gunk/perserving liquids/bone bits. Just a quick rinse is good to get rid of unwanted bits, no need to "wash" just do a quick rinse, and please always clean your kitchen regardless of what you're cooking.
I don't know why it's so hard for people to understand this. You have no idea what that meat touched before packaging. Might have hit the factory floor.
@@QuintonRC23I like people love to say this like our nation doesn't have the strictest of FDAs who are constantly making sure our meat factories are clean AF and safe.
Dude all that's doing is potentially spreading the salmonella. The cooking also going to get rid of those bits you're scared of as well. But of you're that scared, then get some dry paper towels and pat the chicken down.
@@WillofDDThe same FDA that allowed America to be a greasy fat person’s wet dream, sure bruh. Y’all food regulations are already the absolute fucking worst among first world countries, like y’all eat shit that’s essentially poison for fun, there’s no doubt in my mind that somewhere in that production process people aren’t properly executing FDA protocols and the FDA likely don’t give af as long as they’re getting satisfied in some way.
Most more melinated people wash or sanitize their meats. You don't have to use soap with all the chemicals, you can use sea salt, vinegar or lemon/lime juice or any other natural cleaners.
I am assuming that “wash” means with vinegar, lemon, or lime, and NOT SOAP. 🤢 There is also cultural vernacular to consider when it comes to “washing” meat. I’m Caribbean and “washing meat” consists of using lemons or limes (and water) to sanitize it. Some people actually wash chicken with soap and water and that is very scary.
I think you should look for an alternative way, washing your chicken can cause the salmonella from the chicken to spread to your sink and it just makes it a hassle to clean and can make anything near the sink unsafe
I am Jamaican and we wash our chickens because I don’t know where it was stored before. It came into my house and if I bought chicken parts that means that there’s bone fragments, dirt sand whatever on my meat and I will not put that directly in my pot and cook it down that’s nasty I will do is wash it off and culturally speaking. We use either lemons or vinegar to clean our meat or both
I work for Sanderson Farms chicken plant. Do you know how many times I seen someone literally dropped Chicken on the ground and pick it up and throw it back into a box. You know how many times our production was so fast that powder chicken with pile up on the ground where we walk on and they pick it up and rinse it off. And the people that we rented it off really don't care about it😂😂😂. You know whenever people get fired from their they always doing some trifling ish some people well maybe not ruin it for everybody. Just know you need to wash your meat because you don't know what's going on at the chicken plants
This is not washing though in Brazil we do this too there’s actually I name For this. But it’s not technically washing it . I won’t cook meat before it has been set with vinegar and lemon for at least 24 hours but I don’t run it down the water
wash chicken= soaking with lime or vinegar. taking out the extra fat, blood, feathers, gunk etc before you rinse and then season. You sanitize your kitchen, that's all. No one gets sick in the countries that do this, the whole Caribbean, South America, India, etc etc etc !! Its an American fear?
@@yungkaleidohave you ever checked a chicken before? Because I’m pretty sure you have not, not all chicken you see or buy in the grocery stores or wherever else is clean with no debris, or small feathers, sometimes having a sprinkle of common sense helps
The amazing thing is that they act like they don't need to wash any of the utensils that they used to touch the raw chicken. Do they not season it in a bowl? Do they not chop the chicken on a cutting board? Sometimes there will be a recipe where the chicken is blended in an entire food processor. Should you throw the entire food processor away to avoid water spreading any contaminants?
You do know water will still splash everywhere because of little droplets 😂😂😂 when you can just not wash it put it in the oven and cook it and kill all the bacteria etc by cooking it properly because washing it won’t do shit because it’ll still have bacteria and germs like tf 😂
I do rinse my chicken. But what is wrong with y’all saying is sanitizes the meat. It does not get rid of bacteria. lol that only heat will get rid of. Rinsing gets rid of most blood, feathers anything left over from where the bird came from.
I was wondering was someone was going to say something about the water and the way you wash it. Who is putting a hard wash on the chicken. Bowl that ish and wash it. This is a dumb conversation.
😂😂😂😂 That guy really said, you'll get the chicken juice everywhere. Like cleaning after cooking isn't a thing. Also how are you washing the chicken, are you punching the water, why is the chicken juice getting everywhere.
I think there is a misunderstanding on washing chicken. We don’t mean wash as in soap and water. We mean wash as in using something acidic such as vinegar or lime to get rid of unwanted or unsavory things. There is a huge difference in taste and texture when you clean the chicken properly.
“We” ain’t it. The people in the video are talking about rinsing the chicken in water. No one’s talking about using acid baths to remove flavors. I know of the process you’re talking about, I don’t understand how that has to do with this video.
Yes, we wash our chicken. There's on the chicken, a very raw scent. This is why in the Bahamas, we soak our chicken in lime and vinegar,clean then season and cook. Of course, you should sanitize the sink and the surrounding areas from bacteria.
@@stevethepussycat9968 I'm talking about out of the packet. If I've got some chicken breasts and it's got that strong poultry smell I'm washing it off under running water, otherwise it transfers the odour to the food.
I love how the “expert’s” demonstration is by washing the whole chicken under fast running water in the sink without using a bowl. Of course the bacteria is gonna spread if you do it that way. In my home, you fill a big bowl with water and some vinegar, put the chicken in, and clean it with lime or lemon and salt. It not only takes away the aftertaste of raw chicken, but it’s done to remove small bone fragments, tiny feathers, blood clots, dirt, and other stuff in the chicken. I think it also has to do with how food safety regulations are applied in countries. I know for America and other Western countries, their food safety regulations are very strict, so food products are usually safe to cook immediately. But for other countries where food safety regulations are not as heavily enforced, we must take the extra steps to clean out foods. Edit: I should add that, seeing as many of the comments cannot grasp what I’m saying, I obviously don’t come nor live in America and our food safety regulations are not as encoded and strict as America. For example, meat is usually bought from butcher’s shop, and the environment is usually not usually up to code. The washing is just a safety precaution which, although unnecessary to many, has stuck around. And yes, we obviously cook our meat. Finally, the washing of chicken seems to be more of a cultural difference (and no, it’s not only black people who do it, I know some white people who do it too. And as the chef stated, we wash down our sink area vigorously with soap, vinegar, and boiling water after washing and cooking. All in all, live and let live. We have been washing our chicken this way since I was born, and I’ve never gotten sick
I’m gonna blow your mind here, but guess what? It’s already rinsed at the factory. That process is already done. All you need to do at home is cook it to temperature
Thanks, I'll wash mine. Imagine how many people would have died over the centuries if washing your poultry and meat was bad. As for rinsing at the factory, how many other hands and surfaces have touched your meat and whether it was maintained at adequate temperatures during its journey to you. Only people who don't know how to handle food contaminates the whole sink area.
It's a cultural thing, so I've noticed. Wash, don't wash, does it really mater. Washing gets rid of debris and cooking kills the bacteria. Some of the worst food poisoning you can get is from cross contamination. Just be careful when washing so you don't cross contaminate other ingredients, surfaces, plates, kitchenware or even other side dishes.
It's stupid to wash it. It's not going to affect the taste or sanitization of the chicken when you wash it. All it does is increase your likelihood of getting salmonella from cross contamination. Even if you perfectly sanitize your sink afterwards, you've literally done nothing besides waste time.
It clearly does matter if you're spreading bacteria all over your sink and kitchen. It's so obvious: just because it's cultural, it doesn't mean it's correct, right, or good. The science is not even out on this one: washing chicken has *no* positive benefit vis-a-vis it's intended use, is more time consuming, and *spreads* bacteria.
I was always taught by my Jamaican mom to wash the chicken with vinegar. She has used lime too. My American auntie does vinegar and salt. I use either ways.
@@natbb9 it’s not to kill bacteria. my Jamaican dad says it’s to rinse off anything they might have sprayed on the chicken. And in the market you never know what they’ve done to the meat. If there’s any bone dust, water washes it off. I only wash it in a bowl and with salt water, lime and vinegar
It’s very intresting to see the differences in how people were raised, personally I haven’t heard of people washing their chicken, at least not with dawn dish soap 😂
As Caribbean ppl we are big on cleanliness!! When it comes to food and how it's prepared, also hygiene!!! 🤢🤢🤮🤮 We don't play! This is why we don't eat at anyone's house 🤢🤢🤮😂😂😂
Do you wash your bacon ? Nope. Then don’t wash your chicken , it’s not effective. The bacteria is still there and you’re increasing the contamination in the kitchen .
Am indian and here most of us marinate chicken with turmeric and salt, both have antibacterial properties. We then wash the turmeric and salt off and then marinate it with whatever spices we want to. The reason for washing the chicken is ofcourse cooking does kills the bacteria off but washing ensure that the blood and some bodily fluids of the chicken which must be left gets washed away. Even if the bacteria gets killed stale blood and most bodily fluids of meat are not safe. As for the water splashing everywhere, just be careful while rinsing the chicken and ofcourse sanitize your sink and your countertops after washing chicken.
They're also blasting it with water from the faucet so duh its going to splash 😂 A lot of people wash it in a bowl with lime and salt and sanitize the sink thoroughly after. It also makes a huge difference in breading sticking because it dissolves that nasty slimy coating under the skin. You can also definitely taste when chicken is not washed
it gives that they don’t clean after they cook 🤦🏾♀️! no matter what you do you always gotta wipe down the surfaces so that bacteria isn’t even a problem!!
Already.... most rare and medium rare eaters don't wash their chicken...most well done to medium well eaters wash their chicken and you should cause there's always some small parts of feathers or the pores you want to remove
@@ritzkola2302 yeah…no…I’m black. Even though I’m half white im never going to be called white. My skin is brown. I’m always going to be called black…I don’t understand things like that though when people say. “You act white”. Or “you act black”…. When they mean “acting white” is just speaking grammatically correct and “acting black” is being a ‘thug’. My father taught me how to cook chicken. My dad’s black. His mom and dad are black. Their parents are black.
Washing alone in running water does not kill bacteria. Personally, the only reason i wash chicken before cooking first is to remove debris, dirt, etc. that sticks to it during handling and packaging.
That's the only reason that would make sense. To remove foreign materials or maybe foul odors. The bacteria argument doesn't make sense because any harmful bacteria would reduce to insignificant levels after cooking throughly. Most likely, people grow up around other people who wash meat and they misunderstand or confuse the reason why it's done.
@SOULSEEKERBEATS Why the fuck🤡 does your chicken have dirt on it. Dirt is not bacteria. Dirt is soil where it shouldnt be. I don't care how much washing of the chicken you did if your chicken had dirt on it, I don't want any.🤣
I think from a public health pov it’s advised to not wash your chicken given that your average person might not sanitise their kitchen properly after every single meal especially with a busy lifestyle (kids running around, work calls, etc etc). And washing the chicken with water is really not going to remove microorganisms, you’re gonna wash it and then proceed to spice it, move to another bowl and then to the oven or wherever, in that time the husband and children already coughed in the vicinity and boom contaminated. So just make sure you don’t make too much of a mess when taking the chicken out of the packaging (try to even spice it in the packaging it came in, to limit transport to another surface), wash your hands, cook the chicken properly and clean the kitchen surfaces with a antimicrobial surface cleaner
As a black person I’ve never seen or heard of anyone washing chicken with soap. You wash chicken/meat to take off the excess gunk, feathers and excess fat. Chicken can sometimes have a yellow tint film on the skin you have to scrape off. It has nothing to do with getting rid of the bacteria 🦠. You should clean everything off including canned foods (the can itself) before you use it. Think about how many people actually touched something before you bring it home.
@@prettyprincess8187at the risk of sounding really stupid, what do most people wash it with? because i've definitely been recommended to wash it with soap before which just sounded like a horrendous idea lol
He not cleaning that sink every time. If so he should have a sign saying “ sink only for cleaning chicken “ or clean after rinsing chicken out of sink”
@@Jason.GoldstrikerWhat makes you believe he has a low IQ? It seems that the others who complain about slashing around a stainless steel sink have low IQs and act like it's so much trouble to simply sanitize and rinse the sink out afterwards.
Each side does not have a valid argument. One side things that you can get preservatives off by washing it 😅. The only way you actually get rid of bacteria is by putting it in the oven.
I love how somebody with common sense explain that of course you clean your kitchen before and after. That’s like saying you don’t shower because your bathroom will get covered in grime from your own dirt.
Not the full argument though, that’s just what is brought up in the video. Cooking it will kill 99.999… percent of the bacteria on the chicken. So unless you’re eating it raw then you don’t NEED to wash it.
@@spartansx0750 people like you is why we say adamantly that you can’t eat at everybody’s house. if you are not cleaning that nasty ass and preservative before you cook it, you can always taste it. You can’t cook and you probably have dirty cats in your kitchen and you don’t wash your hands.
Or maybe just... don't turn the water pressure up so high? 🤷🏼♀️ Maybe just... don't let it splash? Duh! 😂 There are so many ways to NOT splash Salmonella everywhere this does NOT seem like a good excuse. Its like, "I can't drive to work today because there's dog poop on my tire!" So... maybe just don't touch your tire and you'll be alright. 🤷🏼♀️🙄🤦🏼♀️
To each their own, but we wash chicken with water, then add lemon or lime, salt, turmeric. It not only cleanses it, but tenderizes also. Use Clorox wipes on the counter after. Pretty simple.
At the end of the day, the heat kills all bacteria, washing increases risk of cross contamination, but improves the texture and taste. The benefit is taste related, not hygiene based.
Fill water in a large bowl, put a few drops of lemon juice and a pinch of salt in it. Put the chicken inside the salty water, and viola your chicken is washed without bacteria flying all over the sink and the kitchen. Bruh! It's always necessary to wash the meat
@@captaincitrus2920exactly, it literally does nothing but makes a mess, then you have to wash out your sink, instead of just cooking the goddamn chicken
Well actually with purging crawfish, LSU did a study and found that adding salt while purging your crawfish does genuinely nothing. Like doesn’t even help a little bit.
Yeah that's what he means, you clean it before everyone makes a mess again, hence how you clean the chicken and then sanitize the sink so that you can do it again
It’s not necessarily about washing away bacteria. If you’ve ever worked or been to a meat processing plant, you’d know that things like dropping the product(never is it thrown away, it’s still packaged)or bone dust from the saws or even simple debris from the environment or handling should be washed off. Think about a chicken that fell on a processing facility floor without being washed, then you buy said chicken, remove the packaging and set it straight into the baking pan. All the debris, dirt gunk, etc isn’t cooked off, the bacteria is just not the debris, is it safe to eat, most likely but that still doesn’t make it sanitary.
It's important to thoroughly wash the chicken to remove any debris, and some people find that soaking it in lime and salt can help tenderize the meat and enhance the flavour. Ultimately, cooking techniques can vary, so it's best to consider various perspectives and decide what works best for you.
1- When people say "wash the chicken" , they just mean a quickly rinsing it. Though it won't eliminate bacteria or parasites, it will get rid of any excess blood, feathers, small pieces of bone/cartilage and other things like that. 2- If you have even half a working brain, rinsing your chicken without making a massive mess is a thing can be done with minimal effort. You don't have to "splash chicken juice" everywhere. 3- If you use any kind of soap on any kind of meat, you shouldn't be in a kitchen in the first place...
If you have a whole brain(frontal cortex) you likely live somewhere the food doesn’t have dirt on it, so there’s no need to contaminate everything with salmonella and triconosis
@@shirtpants4203 What are you talking about, no one said anything about dirt. Like I said, chickens sometimes have small bone debris/feathers or some remaining amount of blood on them after being processed. Simply rinsing the chicken with a minimal amount of water is a perfectly reasonable thing to do to get rid of those. And I can do that without "contaminating" my whole kitchen. But if you're incapable of cooking without splashing sh*t everywhere or would rather have these things end up in your plate, then that's on you so go eat your nasty meat somewhere else.
@@glizzygoblin6444 no, it literally can’t. Germs spread and water splashes. A single drop over your shoulder and whatever behind you is now a vector for whatever Bacteria is on the chicken. It’ll come off in the fryer
Nope. Washing the chicken does not kill the bacteria at all. Temperature is what kills it. As well the bacteria will be inside the meat itself and you can't even wash it there, that's why it's important to cook your chicken well done, so it's not raw inside. Once chicken is washed, you still can't eat it raw because it had the bacteria. That's why you never find anywhere raw chicken dish. In oppose to raw beef for example, which doesn't have salmonella inside the meat, so you don't have to cook it through. With washing chicken you create splatter and aerosol of bacteria for about 2m radius in your kitchen. Why is in not part of the food safety law in America baffles me... in Europe its illegal and can cause the inspector to close down your business. As well all kitchen stuff must attend and pass the food safety training every 3 years. Since fact is not not a debate to people who think something without evidence.
@angelr427 lmao...Jesus christ you're not washing the damn chicken to get rid of bacteria you're doing it to get rid of dirt, blood etc not all countries in the world clean their chicken to the standards of North america. I'm caribbean born and raised. lime and vinegar dunk for 5mins you're not splattering anything. Jeeze mama wasn't wrong about the white not seasoning their chicken and I'm not falling for that not washing chicken nonsense yall got going on either.
@@angelr427washing the chicken will remove the microplastics leftover from the packing machine. There are countless videos of raw food under a microscope
I either use vinegar and water or iodized salt and water to clean the layer of slime off of chicken and other solid meats. It really must be a cultural thing. Culturally...white people just don't wash their meat before cooking it.
If you use a high velocity on your tap, it's bound to splatter everywhere. What people need to use is common sense. I know it's not to remove bacteria as that happens in the cooking process, for me, it's when I clean out the inners of my poultry and remove excess feathers from the skin, I like to wash my chicken. I'll then disinfect all surfaces and my spice containers 🤷🏾♀️
Its not to get rid of the bacteria, its to get rid of the slime and blood when you take it from the grocery, as a caribbean person, "washing" chicken means soaking it in water and vinegar or lime juice to give the meat a better fragrance when you cook it
Here’s a suggestion… 1. Don’t have the water on SUPER BLAST HIGH PRESSURE when you wash it. That’s literally common sense with washing or rinsing anything. And cleaning the sink and surrounding areas afterwards is common sense, too!
Yes, but that’s so much extra work, with literally no benefit. The bacteria are killed by cooking. The bacteria are not killed by washing it, unless you use chemicals that would make it unfit for consumption.
I'm Jamaican we washed our meat, with vinegar, fresh lemon/lime and sometimes with salt. And he's absolutely right, immediately we clean up, by sanitizing.
Jamaican here as well. The vinegar and salt help clean the chicken, and lime (or lemon) help cut the slime off of it. THEN you use little bleach and soap and clean down your cooking area.
I wash my chicken w/ cold water, salt, & lemon/lime. I am not an infomercial actress so I definitely don't have the water on full blast so it splashes ridiculously off the chicken, out of the sink, & across the counters. I also sanitize my kitchen afterwards. It gets the excess blood off, cuts through that slimy film, and gives me the opportunity to inspect what I'm about to eat. I especially love to clean red meat (beef or lamb) with lemon/lime. It cuts through the tougher connective tissues and tenderizes the meat.
Pet it dry with a paper towel, nothing else, everything else you are doing is contaminating all of your kitchen. What you are describing is a brine, whit salt that usually prevents bacterial growth, it's a comple different thing than washing
I don't get why people wash chicken under running water. If you wash it in large bowls a couple time, it would be clean without all those splatters and a smaller area for you to clean.
@@paoloriente5233You should clean your kitchen everyday. It is not a tough chore it is sanitation. Things get dirty when cooking that is why we clean up after ourselves.
I'm always curious about meats in hot climates, and figure there's gotta be extra steps in keeping them fresh-tasting, and not just using refrigeration. Did the jerk process begin as a method of preserving or extending shelf-life at all? Edit: I went a-googling, and one of the pages on the roots of jerk said: " When did this style of cooking start? Most historians agree Jamaica was settled by the Arawak indians over 2500 years ago from South America. They used similar techniques to smoke and dry meat in the sun or over a slow fire, that were common in Peru. This was important as the dried beef could be taken on journeys and eaten as is or chopped and reconstituted in boiling water. This ancient technique goes on today and is known as jerky. In 1492 Columbus claimed it for Spain and enslaved the Arawak indians. Soon they died and were replaced by African slaves. In the 1700's some of the slaves escaped and hid in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica and became known as Maroons, They had to keep watch closely to evade the British army from recapture. With food in short supply the learned to catch wild boars in the forest. Using salt , peppers and spices they learned to preserve the meat. They knew not when their next kill would be." So it seems like it has roots in preservation and curing. Side note - fuck Columbus and any of those old enslaving piece of shit motherfuckers. I think the people would just as easily have discovered the delicious jerk method without the horrors they inflicted, thanks.
If you noticed only the black folks wash their chicken. The whites do not. That says a lot about culture and upbringing. I will continue to wash my chicken and I refuse to eat chicken outside my home, simple!
@@returntoraven racist???? Lol I bet you those mud pies taste great with more than just salt and pepper, what, do you like to put cayenne, some cumin??? Maybe some old bay, lemon pepper, garlic powder?? 😐
It’s less about bacteria, more about removing any physical debris and that weird aftertaste you get if you don’t wash meat esp pre packaged meat in supermarkets. To prevent splashing, just wash it gently in a bowl of cold water, then use salt and lime
@@kalebball5144the meat is still gonna be cooked dumbass 😂 just rinsing of the outer part first. Not like we wash and just eat, obviously heat will still be applied and used.
As a moroccan we wash it with salt and lime ( in a bowl )not for the bacteria but to get rid of the stale blood and bone debris so the chicken is much tastier
.. interesting..I always soak chicken in sea salt and tepid water for a few minutes. Then I pay dry before preparing. Lime is a great idea!
I Like this method of cleaning
Same and I'm American.
thank you ...these people just dont get that we don't want to cook meat in stale blood
Thank you. Same and my family is from Jamaica.
By wash, we asians mean a rinse with just water to get rid of physical sand, dirt, bone fragments, feather or whatever's been sitting on your butcher's floor. Not with soap!
Same and we usually wash to also reduce the smell of the raw meat and blood to better merge with spices otherwise chicken sometimes still carry the smell of raw meat even after cooking properly.
I think just the difference that a lot of people in west use pre packaged chicken which doesn't have dirt, etc and out here we purchase it from our local butcher making it a necessary step to get rid of sand, dirt etc. @@cabuncopy
@lalalalaland84 Black people do it like that too
I don't think they meant it with soap either....
@@cabuncopychicken frome store shouldn't have blood in it unless you're talking about myoglobin 😂
Not dawn dish soap on the chicken 😭😭😭
Right? 😭
for real! gotta use Dial, it's antibacterial.
@@vapedadforchrist😂😂
Should you wash your Roster😂😂😂😂
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all the black chefs said yes 😭
Exactly, white people don't know how to make food flavourful, black people just make the food way more flavourful
I'm not black but bet I'm always washing my chicken.
Yep, usually holding on to ghetto mentalities and thin-air traditions. Goes for all people in poverty tax brackets.
@@ShadowFri3nd Congrats you're in with the slow group.
Those who don't wash are in the nasty group
There seems to be a clear divide on who cleans their chicken and who doesn't
Facts 😂😂😂
I clean my -c0ck- I mean chicken
Washing chicken is a black people thing. It's just the way we were raised. And also washing chicken helps get the feathers that need plucking out.
I get it, everybody washes their chicken. - thanks for the likes
Not just black people. We Latinos wash our chicken. Put water, vinegar/lime and salt. Then rinse it out a couple of times. Nice clean chicken…
@@Angel-vd2hr who is we?
The people who are washing their chicken with soap are wild. Grandmama need to slap some common sense into them
"why does my chicken taste like soap"
Pretty sure I've seen a dish soap ads on TV showing that
Edit: I remember wrong, it wasn't chicken but veggies
Same with rice
@@vusherman1125 oh god...
bro i’m asian and that sentence hurt me
1 - the washing is usually done with vinegar, baking soda, salt and/or lemon, not dishsoap or any othr industrial soup
2 - yep, Clean as you cook, clean especially around your sink well, alwayssss
edit: it's not necessarily abt killing bacteria, it helps with the freshness of the chicken, especially getting rid of stale blood and pieces of bone and blood clots
Facts
Whats that gonna do it's not hand sanitizer
@@ligmaballs4130Environmental hygiene.
No thanks black kitchens are dirty asf🤢y’all put spices on chicken and think you’re gordon ramsay😂😂😂
do u really think ur killing bacteria by doing that?
Everyone that said yes is used to cultures that got their chicken from local, wet markets that actually butchered and sold their meat, not retailers that bought theirs from processing plants. Most of the time, these wet markets did not have clean environments including dirt, sand, blood and feathers. Some people also butchered their own live poultry, so it made sense to clean out the innards, much like fresh fish. Also, most people clean them with small basins by rinsing them, NOT by splashing running water through them, especially in bigger batches.
Have you seen processing plants for chicken in the western countries!? They’re rats running around and feces. Yeah, sounds A-OK to me.
Did you miss the part where they said they wash the chicken to get rid of bacteria?
Anyone would clean the things you mentioned, this video is referring to bacteria specifically.
👨🏻🍳- I don’t wash my chicken
👨🏿🍳- Aye wash that shit bruh
💀💀underrated AS FUCK
I’m white as shit, I wash my chicken and I bet I cook it way better. My Mexican friends praise me for my chicken. I be at all the bbqs. It ain’t about color it’s about the Individual ( white btw and I’ve never tried cooking chicken.. I do make a real good steak though )
@@Azure546 It's a pattern boo calm the fuck down.
I was kidding I actually suck at cooking chicken
@@Azure546🤡
Depends on what you call washing. I personally put the chicken in a large bowl with water, vinegar and lemon to “marinate” for a while before actually marinating it.
Thats fine too
Some people would just soak the chicken in water and salt
That’s fine. In the video he shows people washing it with soap and some of it gets in the inside which is not going to be fully rinsed out. I prefer germs that die in heat vs soap in my food
winner
Are you east African or have EA heritage by any chance?
@@ya8158Who the heck wash chicken with soap...
Wash your chicken using lemon or vinegar. It will stay longer in the freezer and has less smell.
It’s not about removing the bacteria but to remove any dirt, bone debris, and stale blood. Especially stale blood, you will taste it in your chicken.
Precisely
which you can do by soaking your chicken. Dont wash. There are safe ways to do things. But yeah ive never heard of dirt and debris in chicken. Even blood Ive never seen in chicken. Might be a different countries issue...
@@crazzynez Dirt or dust from the air that can’t be seen by naked eyes, BONE debris from cutting the chicken. And for sure blood, which runs in every arteries and veins of a chicken; I have yet to see a chicken without blood. Soak or wash, any means to clean the chicken using water instead of just cooking the chicken right away.
@@crazzynezi think people who wash actually soak it like you mentioned. The chef saying to wash literally never used the faucet like those on the other side, he soaked his in a bowl.
@@MrWengweng93if your chicken collects debris and dust you're definitely doing something wrong
only thing to do is soak at most for stale blood but however if its fresh you probably wont need to do this
My mom said wash chicken to get factory/processing plant germs /goo off the meat itself. You'll notice if extra feathers, bone fragments, dirt or there excess skin you need to trim etc. It's not a wash with soap it's a lime or vinegar soak. Then rinse put the bird get it ready for the cooking vessel. Your water is not on full blast on the water. After the bird is ready, you scrub bleach, soap and hot water in the skin, all the utensils, cutting board etc Maybe it's a cultural, generational thing but I'll continue to do it. It's how I was raised.
The point of washing chicken is to remove any grit, debris and dirt that may be left on. The bacteria will die while being cooked.
They clean it before they package it 💀
@@SskelllI'm sure they clean it and get any microscopic debris out 100% of the time in every retail store or farm you're likely to buy it from, yes indeed. Health standards at maximum
That's not a reason to use fucking soap
@@Crease_BanditYeah I'm sure running cold water over your chicken is gonna remove all the microscopic dirt, microplastics and everything else water doesn't remove. Here's a fun thought: You ever think that the reason people don't care about or dont notice microscopic dirt is because its microscopic? I bet you if I served you two cuts of pan seared chicken breast, one washed and one not, you would notice absolutely no difference at all.
@@Sskelllu believe that? 💀💀
To b clear, no one is using dish soap. That’s not a thing. I have modified my method: A soak in a large bowl with vinegar, lime juice, salt and water. During this process I remove bone fragments, feathers, stringy fat, unwanted skin or any other unwanted stuff…A low pressure rinse and pat dry before seasoning. I then sanitize the counter top, sink, faucets, soap bottles before moving on.
You can’t see everywhere it splashed with the naked eye even if you tried to sanitize everything it can get on your clothes, floor, nearby clean dishes etc etc without you even noticing it’s so much easier to just season it and throw it in the oven or pan fry it etc etc a lot less chance of it spreading. Lime and vinegar only do a very small amount of killing bacteria, cooking it literally kills basically all bacteria
I always sanitize the sink and all its area with bleach and soap and sponge
@@haydotzero3372 Bleach does not kill chicken bacteria. Use vinegar and use bleach in the end because it just makes us feel better.
the only reasonable answer.
as a racist, I approve of your post👍🏻
@@haydotzero3372in North America the majority of chicken is washed with a bleach wash before being packaged and shipped out to stores. So doubling up is a waste of time. A vinegar and lime or other acid is a great way to wash chicken as it'll tenderize the meat also. Cooking is the only way to kill the bacteria and a pre-wash/rinse only helps us feel better about the meat.
I worked at a chicken processing plant for a few years and I wash my chicken. Not for bacteria, but for whatever stuff might be leftover after the plant sprays it and it also gets off any slimy stuff.
True
Precisely. But then, there are people attacked me for never cooking and illogical. I mean, it is obvious not every chicken is cleaned thoroughly prior to packing, and we clean chicken for that reason.
The main problem is colonizing your sink with chicken bacteria, that's a fucking huge sanitary issue with washing chicken. You could use paper towel to pet it dry or gently scrub it, nothing more
if your chickens slimy that means it went bad bro
You're buying old chicken 100% i buy chicken breast dont wash and its better than fast food for sure.
I’ve never seen anyone wash a chicken by putting it under running water like that. A lot of places where there are contaminants that could be present on the chicken, it is customary to clean the chicken before cooking. Cleaning is normally putting it in a bowl with a natural disinfectant such as vinegar or lemon and putting water on top of that, not splashing chicken juices, everywhere contaminating the kitchen😂 that’s why you’ll see people from Island or coastal backgrounds do it because it is a part of the culture there.
For Caribbean people,
We wash our chicken using lime juice or vinegar. We usually soak it in there for a few minutes then do it again. This process is mostly 4 rinses. Finally, we then rinse it with water. We also wash our rice in water
Sounds like less of a wash and more of a pre seasoning seasoning step.... Maybe a rinse?
Salt also works if you run of of lime or vinegar
@@TachibanaTengokunah that's a real wash a rinse is just use regular water
And all that is unnecessary
@@chriso9631what do you season your food with?
Jamaican guy had it on point. Whether you wash it or not, you WILL get bacterial juices on your counters and sink. Maybe the question should be “should you wash your kitchen after working with meat”. And holy shit, YES, how do you not after working with raw meat, washed or unwashed 🤦♂️
You're not going to get it all, that's the point. Don't be delusional. Do you wash hamburger meat?
@@oldchunkofcoal2774 it's ground up and nobody be washing ground up meat. Let's exercise using common sense today.
@@kqwen5268 Duh, that's my point. Washing chicken is dumb, unsanitary and unnecessary. THAT is common sense.
@@kqwen5268meat is meant though
@@oldchunkofcoal2774cry in first world privilege, dear good sir. You try NOT washing your chicken in SE Asia, you get brown propellant out of your biological exhaust.
Bought some veggies for my green juice last week. All packages were marked "washed". I stubbornly still put mine to soak in a bit of baking soda water, guess what I found! A live SNAIL! this is in the Netherlands, beautiful modern, clean supermarket. Guys wash EVERYTHING!!! (I am Afro Caribbean, this is how I was raised)
I feel you. I’m from NL too. One time I bought spinace “pre washed” and for once I did not rinse it before eating. I was in a rush. I got so sick for 3 weeks diarrhea straight
I've found bugs in my pre washed salad from the US grocery store
raw meat is not the same as vegetables. only the surface of vegetables is actually filthy which is why it's safe to eat them raw after cleaning. no amount of cleaning can EVER make raw meat sanitary. only cooking. you're just being superstitious.
@@stinkmongerno one is eating the chicken raw 😂. They’re literally just putting acid on the chicken before cooking. You see people use acid to get rid of a fishy smell?
@@Jonnyhudson99 Why they refuse to understand…I just don’t know 😂
Yes, wash. Gently with lime or lemon juice and water. Or vinegar water. Then clean the sink and counters.
Then you season the chicken. My experience is that once you clean then season/marinate, it can last longer in your fridge. And it's not just seasonings masking odors. Time and again.
Bro my parents do the exact same thing lol.
This doesn’t look professionally divisive, it looks culturally divisive. I use saline & vinegar or lemon juice to clean my chicken. Aside from sanitizing it helps get the goopy or yucky stuff off the surface of the chicken.
Maybe regionally divisive? I'm in the med and a lot of people keep chickens here. You rinse them when you gut them, but you don't have to wash a chicken from the butchery. I might feel different if I knew it came from a huge factory, though.
Just buy a kosher chicken, it's already been salted to death
So your salting and adding vinegar and lemon. You not cleaning shit your marinating
Ditto
@@feedingthetrollsalting draws out any remaining blood
Notice the difference between the ones who said they do and the ones that said they didnt 😂😂
I was about to say the same 😂
Racist
@@danypouliot5237how is it racist? Please explain
Thats the point
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Them: “It’s everywhere. Dripping down the sink. On the counter.”
Also Them: literally sat the chicken ON THE COUNTER
They had to make it up because they saw that it didn’t go everywhere
@@Beeontreeit does tho. Any water droplet that touched the chicken and hit anywhere else is now potentially infected with solmonella. Just cook your chicken. It’s the only thing that kills bacteria
Fake infomercial ass acting lmaooo
Me boiling water to wash the chicken
literally everyone : digesting stuff thanks to bacterias
Don't ask people that don't normally bathe themselves either 😂
Ah racism
@@Cafeallday222so what ?
@@Cafeallday222 It's not racism if it's a fact and who gives a fuck
As an asian, for stew/soup chicken, we boil the chicken for around 15 minutes and discard the "wash" water, any dirt, loose fat, or blood will be dislodged, bacteria will mostly die, and you didn't make a mess.
That different. Vietnamese people do that.
Those Americans that “wash” their chicken to “Fry it” are kinda dumb.
Making Pho/ Stew and boiling the extra fat out is different then straight up washing it with water and lemon which is useless.
Finally, a logical explanation
. So quick to try to make it seem like blacks in America are not supposed to wash chicken however, I've seen it done by so many other cultures. I was taught how to clean my chicken with vinegar and lemon juice from a Jamaican lol. I've seen plenty of asians, Africans and Filipinos wash their meat also. The only people who don't wash their meat are white people in America. However they weren't always known for being clean anyway. 🤷🏾
This makes the most sense. It would also get rid of that foamy scum when the chicken starts to boil. Fresh water would make the broth taste so much better too.
See this is how I was raised lmao! Like we never ever wash chicken in the sink because that’s just disgusting. Boiling first to get rid of impurity is the first thing for anything that has bone in it!
I wash my raw chicken in a big bowl of vinegar/water. I massage it gently and make sure it's not splashing everywhere. Sanitize after regardless.
Do you wash tour ground beef ?
Right! In their experiment they turned the tap on BUCK, so the water splashed everywhere - which it would whatever you were washing!
That's right
So it’s a cultural thing
Clean it with that hormone tap water hahah
“Das why ya sanitize ya sink” exactly man exsctly
people think they're being smart but they're dumb as hell for not understanding why it WAS necessary to clean off chicken, and why it's NOT necessary in other countries. bacteria and pesticides had me dead 😂
Women bro☕
yeah it's you @@Yeah_ItsYou
@@Yeah_ItsYou
But it was a dude who said that so
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@@WillowWellow he said it based on her words
"But it was a dude who said that🗣️"
Women☕
As a black person WASH THE CHICKEN AND CLEAN YOUR AREA LATER
You realize that heat kills bacteria, not water..
And your clothes/self.. cause it also splashed all over them too
No..
This is a common misunderstanding of what wash means. It simply means clean. Technically we’re giving the chicken a rinse to remove any debris. Not using soap but a salt, lime or vinegar to remove any contaminates that for sure could have gotten on your food prior.
I hope no one really thinks you mean soap😂😂😂
Honestly, it taste better when it’s washed. You can taste all the nasty shit when it’s not
This all day long.
@Geminicricketi it's also like brining at the same time
Well said
A lot of people arguing don't seem to realise that not every country cleans the chicken for them. Every time I buy chicken, there's gonna be tons of blood and stuff that'll have to be washed or the taste will change. It's not really about hygiene, its mostly just to avoid making something that tastes awful
That's fine and probably for the best, what isn't cool is people calling whites "disgusting" for not needing to wash chicken
@@_TeeVee_you gotta be careful with the generalizing, i know lots of white people that wash their chicken, and i have not seen anyone making fun of “white” people for not washing their chicken.
@@evrythingisayisfactzzlolll6642 I mean sure but as a white person, everyone white person and myself that I know doesn't wash their chicken. You can look throughout this comment section to see other ethnicities make fun of white people for not doing it, even saying we don't wash in general. Racism is racism
Right all the excess liquid it sits in stinks I rub down with salt lemons fresh water
Rinsing a chicken is fine. The thing that is controversial is using dish soap to clean the chicken.
As a chef, I wash the chicken just to rid of any extra debris from liquids from the preservatives, small amount of blood and even feathers that may have been missed. As far as bacteria, that’s in the cooking process
This is the correct response...
Don't trust the mechanical process especially when you want an awesome presentation. (Feathers take away from a good looking piece of chicken 😅)
Huh, i've always had a throughly washed chicken from the store. Never seen a feather, or blood. I always wondered how they are so perfect with it but i probably just don't buy enough chicken lol
Thanks Chef, truth is truth! 😊
Wash or not wash. I prepare my chicken I give it a gentle soft wash and some salt water I rub it there is a yellow film on the skin of some chickens I wash that off because it gives the chicken a subtle gamey flavor. Also feathers also if the chicken has been processed cut up there are bone fragments in marrow fragments on the skin of chicken. You don't wash your chicken I don't care it's safe to eat because there's no bacteria. But I don't want to eat it if you didn't wash it.
I’m not a chef but I agree with you 💯, I wash my chicken with lemon and rinse it with water.
I see a running theme here….
Smart and dumb people
Just say it buddy😂
Lmao
It definitely ain’t the chicken across the road.
With people with actual taste, wash it lol
You will NEVER convince a Caribbean to not wash their chicken lol. If I don’t wash chicken with vinegar and lime my husband won’t touch it!
I'm not Jamaican..African American. I wash my meats like you do. That lemon, some salt and maybe some apple cider vinegar. Then there's a hood splash of dishwasher liquid and bleaching that sink and everything after it's been cleaned and prepped. Wash your hands frequently. Put your seasoning all in before you massage or mix it in. That way you don't contaminate your seasoning containers. 😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤ I don't care..I'm washing. I eat at home mostly anyways.
I will never eat from someone who don't clean their chicken or other meats
Do you mean marinating or cleaning? Big difference.
If you need to clean your chicken, you are getting very low quality, poorly handled cheap dirty housed self cannabilising, sleeping in their own shit chickens.
@@elsosa7863We don't care care if it's organic chicken or run of the mill! We folks from the Caribbean will wash it, & other meats with lemon/lime/vinegar and sometimes salt!
Many of us Haitians also take it a step further by washing with boiling hot water! The hot water is drained, the lime/lemon is thrown away & the meat rinsed one more time - before it's ready to be seasoned!
You'll never eat any meat from Haitians and comment that it tastes gamey or funky!
I'm haitian and came here to say the same thing lol
I rinse my chicken to get rid of debris. Feathers, skin, fat, residue or debris from the processing plant, bits of plastic from packaging. Just anything that might end up in the chicken accidentally.
This 👆🏽
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Exactly!
Yessss!!
Where tf are you buying chicken that it has all that stuff on it.
I'm from Trinidad...which is in the Caribbean...I think our culture teaches us to wash our meats before we season and marinate in order to cook ...and to be fair...I think that's why most foreigners enjoy our menus...😊
As a moroccan we wash it. Lemon, water vinigar and salt. Sometimes even with flour😂😮
Thats a literal marination at this point
lol as a Vietnamese I use white wine and salt.
@VibhorSen1993 Atleast no soap is included
@@Yahya-sb1yowhen most people express "washing" their chicken, they're not meaning with soap products. Water, salt, lemon, or vinegar are often the various options chosen.
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Its not about bacteria, only cooking will take care of that. Its about making sure there's no extra gunk/perserving liquids/bone bits. Just a quick rinse is good to get rid of unwanted bits, no need to "wash" just do a quick rinse, and please always clean your kitchen regardless of what you're cooking.
I don't know why it's so hard for people to understand this. You have no idea what that meat touched before packaging. Might have hit the factory floor.
@@QuintonRC23I like people love to say this like our nation doesn't have the strictest of FDAs who are constantly making sure our meat factories are clean AF and safe.
Dude all that's doing is potentially spreading the salmonella. The cooking also going to get rid of those bits you're scared of as well. But of you're that scared, then get some dry paper towels and pat the chicken down.
@@WillofDDThe same FDA that allowed America to be a greasy fat person’s wet dream, sure bruh. Y’all food regulations are already the absolute fucking worst among first world countries, like y’all eat shit that’s essentially poison for fun, there’s no doubt in my mind that somewhere in that production process people aren’t properly executing FDA protocols and the FDA likely don’t give af as long as they’re getting satisfied in some way.
@@QuintonRC23bro if you seriously think a chicken that hit the floor got put up for sale you're dumb
Most more melinated people wash or sanitize their meats. You don't have to use soap with all the chemicals, you can use sea salt, vinegar or lemon/lime juice or any other natural cleaners.
@biochemica2Sir go back to school
Dish soap was a viral joke at one point.
Melinated 🤦🏾♀️ please just stop with this nonsense. This is a question of choice has nothing to do with skin colour
Or you could just cook it.
The cooking takes care of that 😂
Salmonella coming whit this one 🗣🗣
WASH YOUR CHICKEN
IT WILL DIE FROM HEAT! YOU CAN’T GET RID OF SALMONELLA WITHOUT USING CHEMICAL OR HEAT
I am assuming that “wash” means with vinegar, lemon, or lime, and NOT SOAP. 🤢 There is also cultural vernacular to consider when it comes to “washing” meat. I’m Caribbean and “washing meat” consists of using lemons or limes (and water) to sanitize it.
Some people actually wash chicken with soap and water and that is very scary.
Yes when my mom prepares chicken she lets it sit in lime/lemon water in a bowl in the sink for a hour probably before cooking
I was taught the same thing and will continue to do so.
@@Bob_TheRobotthe also do it because if you have fowl chicken it helps tenderize it.
yes and flour in tge rinsing water if the skin slimy
Yes, I soak in salt for 30 min, then water for an hour, then vinegar and water rinse. Then clean your sink n surrounding area.
I wash my chicken to make sure there isn’t any leftover feathers that somehow made into the packaging. It happened to me a couple times now.😭
I think you should look for an alternative way, washing your chicken can cause the salmonella from the chicken to spread to your sink and it just makes it a hassle to clean and can make anything near the sink unsafe
y'all get chicken in PACKAGES? 💀
@@HughJackManRedBonesWho doesn't?
@@Ty-dk2sj the ones who gets it from the farmer...?
@@HughJackManRedBonesyeah because everybody lives near a farm…. Use ur head
I am Jamaican and we wash our chickens because I don’t know where it was stored before. It came into my house and if I bought chicken parts that means that there’s bone fragments, dirt sand whatever on my meat and I will not put that directly in my pot and cook it down that’s nasty I will do is wash it off and culturally speaking. We use either lemons or vinegar to clean our meat or both
Black people all around the world from Africa throughout the Caribbean and especially in America wash their chicken.
Yh I totally agree with you .
Including Seville orange
Fi Reel!!!
you think they wash the chicken at kfc in JA? Genuine question, I'm also team wash the chicken btw
I work for Sanderson Farms chicken plant. Do you know how many times I seen someone literally dropped Chicken on the ground and pick it up and throw it back into a box. You know how many times our production was so fast that powder chicken with pile up on the ground where we walk on and they pick it up and rinse it off. And the people that we rented it off really don't care about it😂😂😂. You know whenever people get fired from their they always doing some trifling ish some people well maybe not ruin it for everybody. Just know you need to wash your meat because you don't know what's going on at the chicken plants
yes as west africans we thoroughly wash with lemon juice or vinegar or both!
Thank you. These people are really nasty. Eewwwww. Not washing chicken.
This is to remove bad smells & filth... Plus it tenderizes the meat. Me being from a Muslim family, we also do this
Because West Africa does not have a good quality of sanitation for the food, compared to the US or other well developed countries.
This is not washing though in Brazil we do this too there’s actually I name
For this. But it’s not technically washing it . I won’t cook meat before it has been set with vinegar and lemon for at least 24 hours but I don’t run it down the water
So ignorant. If you think your quality of food is good in America, you are sadly mistaken.. @@actualyoungsoo
rinse with water,it removes the visible dirt or non visible(very small but physical) stuff,as for bacteria,just let it cook
Yeah you can do that manually as well
@@johnokazaki7967 what do you mean?
@johnokazaki7967 get rid of bacteria manually?
@@johnokazaki7967I thought that wa what I was doing when I wash it 😢
🤢 I hate even touching raw meat. Yes, i don't eat meat.
wash chicken= soaking with
lime or vinegar. taking out the extra fat, blood, feathers, gunk etc before you rinse and then season. You sanitize your kitchen, that's all. No one gets sick in the countries that do this, the whole Caribbean, South America, India, etc etc etc !! Its an American fear?
Also Africa we wash our chicken
@@alz3712 you don't speak for us we soak it
I dunno they keep bringing up salmonella when most of us that wash our chicken clean our kitchen never got salmonella
Facts
it’s probably due to the extremely high incidence of salmonella in SPECIFICALLY American chicken and dear of contamination
Yes, wash with vinegar and water. It allows the seasonings to penetrate more for a better overall taste.
You dont wash chicken to get rid of bacteria
You wash chicken to get rid if any small debris like small feathers, some dust or anything else.
Have you ever bought chicken from a grocery store? It’s plucked, skinned, cleaned all that already in the package ready to be cooked
@@yungkaleidothere are still feathers in the chicken sometimes depending on what kind you get tho
@@yungkaleido
Tell me you never cook one. Sometimes dirty shit are still there
@@yungkaleidohave you ever checked a chicken before? Because I’m pretty sure you have not, not all chicken you see or buy in the grocery stores or wherever else is clean with no debris, or small feathers, sometimes having a sprinkle of common sense helps
@@yungkaleidodouble checking is never a bad idea.
Lol continues to put the hardest water pressure on the chicken and say "oh no it splatters EVERYWHEREEEE"
Exactly!
Yeah the water is going to splatter everywhere if you put a power wash on it! This is not concrete or car tires. 😂
The amazing thing is that they act like they don't need to wash any of the utensils that they used to touch the raw chicken. Do they not season it in a bowl? Do they not chop the chicken on a cutting board? Sometimes there will be a recipe where the chicken is blended in an entire food processor. Should you throw the entire food processor away to avoid water spreading any contaminants?
Doesn't even matter it obviously didn't wash off either so washing is just a waste
You do know water will still splash everywhere because of little droplets 😂😂😂 when you can just not wash it put it in the oven and cook it and kill all the bacteria etc by cooking it properly because washing it won’t do shit because it’ll still have bacteria and germs like tf 😂
“…That’s why you sanitize your sink after you wash everything…” wash your chicken folks, just not with Dawn🙄😂
If you have to wash your chlorinated chicken, something is wrong with the chicken.
Who's Dawn
😂😂😂😂😂
I do rinse my chicken. But what is wrong with y’all saying is sanitizes the meat. It does not get rid of bacteria. lol that only heat will get rid of. Rinsing gets rid of most blood, feathers anything left over from where the bird came from.
Maybe turn the water down😂😂😂😂 this conversation is as hilarious as the do you wash your legs convo🤦🏾♀️🥴🤣🤣🤦🏾♀️
They're just nasty. I wash it in a bowl
I was wondering was someone was going to say something about the water and the way you wash it. Who is putting a hard wash on the chicken. Bowl that ish and wash it. This is a dumb conversation.
Facts😂😂😂
Place the chicken in a bowl. No water splashing. You May use lemon, vinager or some use salt. After finished you always clean the sink. 😅
But it literally does nothing 😂
Notice the skin tones of those who wash and those who don’t 😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂 That guy really said, you'll get the chicken juice everywhere. Like cleaning after cooking isn't a thing. Also how are you washing the chicken, are you punching the water, why is the chicken juice getting everywhere.
Pretty sure most Latinos don’t wash it either. It’s not exclusive to culture or white people.
@@zontzooit2415everyone else is hygienic except white people so yea it’s a race thing for sure
@@mehnotreallymyname3888Lmaaoo
They wash their chicken just not themselves 😂
I think there is a misunderstanding on washing chicken. We don’t mean wash as in soap and water. We mean wash as in using something acidic such as vinegar or lime to get rid of unwanted or unsavory things. There is a huge difference in taste and texture when you clean the chicken properly.
Exactly! That's what we do in Ecuador, South America
Exactly. I've always been taught to wash it bcz of that and w acidic things too. I do not want blood and feathers in my food. No thank u
No, no there isn’t. Stop lying.
Never heard of anyone doing this, everyone i know just uses the sink
“We” ain’t it. The people in the video are talking about rinsing the chicken in water. No one’s talking about using acid baths to remove flavors. I know of the process you’re talking about, I don’t understand how that has to do with this video.
Yes, we wash our chicken. There's on the chicken, a very raw scent. This is why in the Bahamas, we soak our chicken in lime and vinegar,clean then season and cook. Of course, you should sanitize the sink and the surrounding areas from bacteria.
As an Indonesian, I wash my chicken to get rid of the odour of the outside juices. Imo it makes the food taste better.
You're buying some old ass chicken then.
Your chicken shouldn't have juices unless it's started to spoil 😳
@@stevethepussycat9968 I'm talking about out of the packet. If I've got some chicken breasts and it's got that strong poultry smell I'm washing it off under running water, otherwise it transfers the odour to the food.
@@marksmanmerc1 I'm not. It's packaged chicken, I live in Australia so idk what your chicken is like but that's how it is for me.
@@anarchyfork2676 I've only ever smelt the chicken when it's older without any preservatives.
I love how the “expert’s” demonstration is by washing the whole chicken under fast running water in the sink without using a bowl. Of course the bacteria is gonna spread if you do it that way.
In my home, you fill a big bowl with water and some vinegar, put the chicken in, and clean it with lime or lemon and salt. It not only takes away the aftertaste of raw chicken, but it’s done to remove small bone fragments, tiny feathers, blood clots, dirt, and other stuff in the chicken.
I think it also has to do with how food safety regulations are applied in countries. I know for America and other Western countries, their food safety regulations are very strict, so food products are usually safe to cook immediately. But for other countries where food safety regulations are not as heavily enforced, we must take the extra steps to clean out foods.
Edit: I should add that, seeing as many of the comments cannot grasp what I’m saying, I obviously don’t come nor live in America and our food safety regulations are not as encoded and strict as America. For example, meat is usually bought from butcher’s shop, and the environment is usually not usually up to code. The washing is just a safety precaution which, although unnecessary to many, has stuck around. And yes, we obviously cook our meat. Finally, the washing of chicken seems to be more of a cultural difference (and no, it’s not only black people who do it, I know some white people who do it too. And as the chef stated, we wash down our sink area vigorously with soap, vinegar, and boiling water after washing and cooking. All in all, live and let live. We have been washing our chicken this way since I was born, and I’ve never gotten sick
I’m gonna blow your mind here, but guess what? It’s already rinsed at the factory. That process is already done. All you need to do at home is cook it to temperature
lol you do not need to wash, even gently, meat! Just cook it
Why are you eating raw chicken?
if the reason is for bacteria what sense does this even make. cooking kills all the bacteria
Thanks, I'll wash mine. Imagine how many people would have died over the centuries if washing your poultry and meat was bad. As for rinsing at the factory, how many other hands and surfaces have touched your meat and whether it was maintained at adequate temperatures during its journey to you. Only people who don't know how to handle food contaminates the whole sink area.
It's a cultural thing, so I've noticed.
Wash, don't wash, does it really mater. Washing gets rid of debris and cooking kills the bacteria. Some of the worst food poisoning you can get is from cross contamination. Just be careful when washing so you don't cross contaminate other ingredients, surfaces, plates, kitchenware or even other side dishes.
It's stupid to wash it. It's not going to affect the taste or sanitization of the chicken when you wash it. All it does is increase your likelihood of getting salmonella from cross contamination. Even if you perfectly sanitize your sink afterwards, you've literally done nothing besides waste time.
Washing to remove bacteria is stupid tho
@@retardo-qo4ujhow
It clearly does matter if you're spreading bacteria all over your sink and kitchen. It's so obvious: just because it's cultural, it doesn't mean it's correct, right, or good. The science is not even out on this one: washing chicken has *no* positive benefit vis-a-vis it's intended use, is more time consuming, and *spreads* bacteria.
I also noticed something yessir 🥴
Yes. Wash all your food and vegetables , wash everything that other people are handling. Period
I was always taught by my Jamaican mom to wash the chicken with vinegar. She has used lime too. My American auntie does vinegar and salt. I use either ways.
Me too bro
You think lime, vinegar, or salt is going to kill salmonella vs. 400° of heat? Smart. Really smart. You must be some kind of genius.
@@natbb9 it’s not to kill bacteria. my Jamaican dad says it’s to rinse off anything they might have sprayed on the chicken. And in the market you never know what they’ve done to the meat. If there’s any bone dust, water washes it off. I only wash it in a bowl and with salt water, lime and vinegar
Both are wrong
@@isaiah904s They are correct, was your chicken 😂😂
It’s very intresting to see the differences in how people were raised, personally I haven’t heard of people washing their chicken, at least not with dawn dish soap 😂
Yea, normal people just rinse lol
People wash their chicken with lemon, vinegar or both.
@@ambi_cc8464’normal’, i’ve never seen a single person rinse their chicken even with water
@@colhufsits pretty common most people i know rinse their chicken
idk if it's just where im from, but raw chicken gets washed here either way (though using soap is weird)@@colhufs
The Jamaican Chef is my favorite explanation! I would eat in his restaurant!👏👏👏👏
As Caribbean ppl we are big on cleanliness!! When it comes to food and how it's prepared, also hygiene!!! 🤢🤢🤮🤮 We don't play! This is why we don't eat at anyone's house 🤢🤢🤮😂😂😂
@melaninchocolate6552 and they better not offer me a cup of water. It better be in a bottle or ill pass
He's too high to realize he's stupid. I'm a professional chef, I own my own restaurant, he's DEAD wrong.
Still cross contamination
Do you wash your bacon ? Nope. Then don’t wash your chicken , it’s not effective. The bacteria is still there and you’re increasing the contamination in the kitchen .
Am indian and here most of us marinate chicken with turmeric and salt, both have antibacterial properties. We then wash the turmeric and salt off and then marinate it with whatever spices we want to. The reason for washing the chicken is ofcourse cooking does kills the bacteria off but washing ensure that the blood and some bodily fluids of the chicken which must be left gets washed away. Even if the bacteria gets killed stale blood and most bodily fluids of meat are not safe. As for the water splashing everywhere, just be careful while rinsing the chicken and ofcourse sanitize your sink and your countertops after washing chicken.
They're also blasting it with water from the faucet so duh its going to splash 😂 A lot of people wash it in a bowl with lime and salt and sanitize the sink thoroughly after. It also makes a huge difference in breading sticking because it dissolves that nasty slimy coating under the skin. You can also definitely taste when chicken is not washed
Exactly. Of course it'll splatter all over if you hit it with a hose.
it gives that they don’t clean after they cook 🤦🏾♀️! no matter what you do you always gotta wipe down the surfaces so that bacteria isn’t even a problem!!
Exactly 💯
@@youneedlotionyou're not cleaning every surface and making 0 transfer of bacteria, get real. Are you going to wash hamburger meat?
@@oldchunkofcoal2774 hamburger meat and chicken are not the same. try again though
black cooks : wash
white cooks : don't
okay!!! That's the line I saw...
Already.... most rare and medium rare eaters don't wash their chicken...most well done to medium well eaters wash their chicken and you should cause there's always some small parts of feathers or the pores you want to remove
I’m black 😭 I don’t wash my chicken. As the woman said. Cooking it is the only way it’s going to get clean
@@Imgaezzyou’re not Black. You might be from afrika or Caribbean and also be raised white.
@@ritzkola2302 yeah…no…I’m black. Even though I’m half white im never going to be called white. My skin is brown. I’m always going to be called black…I don’t understand things like that though when people say. “You act white”. Or “you act black”….
When they mean “acting white” is just speaking grammatically correct and “acting black” is being a ‘thug’. My father taught me how to cook chicken. My dad’s black. His mom and dad are black. Their parents are black.
Washing alone in running water does not kill bacteria. Personally, the only reason i wash chicken before cooking first is to remove debris, dirt, etc. that sticks to it during handling and packaging.
That's the only reason that would make sense. To remove foreign materials or maybe foul odors. The bacteria argument doesn't make sense because any harmful bacteria would reduce to insignificant levels after cooking throughly. Most likely, people grow up around other people who wash meat and they misunderstand or confuse the reason why it's done.
This is the most reasonable thing i have seen today
Even if it did. That's what cooking does.
@@djdavisiscoolno it doesn't, if you put chicken with dirt on it in the oven, you now have a cooked chicken with dirt on it
Are you serious bro
@SOULSEEKERBEATS Why the fuck🤡 does your chicken have dirt on it. Dirt is not bacteria. Dirt is soil where it shouldnt be.
I don't care how much washing of the chicken you did if your chicken had dirt on it, I don't want any.🤣
Ofc all the ninjas wash it 😂😂
I think from a public health pov it’s advised to not wash your chicken given that your average person might not sanitise their kitchen properly after every single meal especially with a busy lifestyle (kids running around, work calls, etc etc). And washing the chicken with water is really not going to remove microorganisms, you’re gonna wash it and then proceed to spice it, move to another bowl and then to the oven or wherever, in that time the husband and children already coughed in the vicinity and boom contaminated. So just make sure you don’t make too much of a mess when taking the chicken out of the packaging (try to even spice it in the packaging it came in, to limit transport to another surface), wash your hands, cook the chicken properly and clean the kitchen surfaces with a antimicrobial surface cleaner
As a black person I’ve never seen or heard of anyone washing chicken with soap. You wash chicken/meat to take off the excess gunk, feathers and excess fat. Chicken can sometimes have a yellow tint film on the skin you have to scrape off. It has nothing to do with getting rid of the bacteria 🦠. You should clean everything off including canned foods (the can itself) before you use it. Think about how many people actually touched something before you bring it home.
Lord have mercy, I thought I was the only one who washes cans before use😂
@@2000mvsyes bruh! Even the cans with Juice or alcohol I was the top before putting my lips on it
Yeah, they took "wash" literally when that's not what majority of Black people are doing. It's what they would call like a wet brine or something.
@@prettyprincess8187at the risk of sounding really stupid, what do most people wash it with? because i've definitely been recommended to wash it with soap before which just sounded like a horrendous idea lol
You don't cook a can... crazy.
I wash mine and then bleach my sink and counters. Hasn't killed me yet 😂
Absolutely NEVerrr...
Hasn't killed me yet 😂
We also wash our hand thoroughly before touching anything after handling fowl.
You still cross contaminated and created a problem that would never have the POTENTIAL.
TO EXIST IF YOU DIDNT WASH.
I bleach my chicken and it hasn’t killed me either
no one saying it’ll kill you it’s just an unnecessary step especially when most people today don’t have time to be doing extra unnecessary stuff
The Jamaican brotha was flawless
Besides the 85 IQ
He not cleaning that sink every time. If so he should have a sign saying “ sink only for cleaning chicken “ or clean after rinsing chicken out of sink”
@@tatankagarcia1570Yes, they clean the sink every time. It literally takes a minute to sanitize and rince a stainless steel sink. WTF???
@@Jason.GoldstrikerWhat makes you believe he has a low IQ? It seems that the others who complain about slashing around a stainless steel sink have low IQs and act like it's so much trouble to simply sanitize and rinse the sink out afterwards.
@@Jason.GoldstrikerHu 👀
Each side does not have a valid argument. One side things that you can get preservatives off by washing it 😅. The only way you actually get rid of bacteria is by putting it in the oven.
“Each side has got a valid argument” dawg no they don’t 😭
Yeah always wash your chicken, like how hard is it to sanitize your sink after your done washing it??
@@Bob_TheRobotwhy do you wash chicken I dont want to start nothing just curious
@@mitchgoat5156video kinda explained why people want/NEED to wash their chicken.
@@zombiraee i said "why do you" not why do people in general
Just white people being white people lol.
I love how somebody with common sense explain that of course you clean your kitchen before and after. That’s like saying you don’t shower because your bathroom will get covered in grime from your own dirt.
That part...🤦🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️
Not the full argument though, that’s just what is brought up in the video. Cooking it will kill 99.999… percent of the bacteria on the chicken. So unless you’re eating it raw then you don’t NEED to wash it.
@@spartansx0750 people like you is why we say adamantly that you can’t eat at everybody’s house. if you are not cleaning that nasty ass and preservative before you cook it, you can always taste it. You can’t cook and you probably have dirty cats in your kitchen and you don’t wash your hands.
Shower dirt ain’t the same as salmonella
Or maybe just... don't turn the water pressure up so high? 🤷🏼♀️
Maybe just... don't let it splash? Duh! 😂
There are so many ways to NOT splash Salmonella everywhere this does NOT seem like a good excuse.
Its like, "I can't drive to work today because there's dog poop on my tire!"
So... maybe just don't touch your tire and you'll be alright. 🤷🏼♀️🙄🤦🏼♀️
To each their own, but we wash chicken with water, then add lemon or lime, salt, turmeric. It not only cleanses it, but tenderizes also. Use Clorox wipes on the counter after. Pretty simple.
At the end of the day, the heat kills all bacteria, washing increases risk of cross contamination, but improves the texture and taste. The benefit is taste related, not hygiene based.
Fill water in a large bowl, put a few drops of lemon juice and a pinch of salt in it. Put the chicken inside the salty water, and viola your chicken is washed without bacteria flying all over the sink and the kitchen.
Bruh! It's always necessary to wash the meat
Washing chicken and purging crawfish with or without salt will be two debates that will never ever be settled😂
“Well this is the way my parents and grandparents did it, so it’s definitely right. I don’t give a damn how many studies and experts weigh in!”
@@captaincitrus2920exactly, it literally does nothing but makes a mess, then you have to wash out your sink, instead of just cooking the goddamn chicken
The University Louisiana did a study on the crawfish to he salt doesn't do anything
Well actually with purging crawfish, LSU did a study and found that adding salt while purging your crawfish does genuinely nothing. Like doesn’t even help a little bit.
Dont wash, and salt if you want. Washing is disgusting. No one is cleaning their kitchen well enough to wash chicken and salt doesnt do anything 😂
"you clean ya house before you have a party?"😂🗣️🔥
How do you expect me to have a party with everything messy ☠️🙏
I mean I do
Yeah that's what he means, you clean it before everyone makes a mess again, hence how you clean the chicken and then sanitize the sink so that you can do it again
You Don't?
pretty retarded analogy tbh. The guy is just mad that he got proven wrong
It’s not necessarily about washing away bacteria. If you’ve ever worked or been to a meat processing plant, you’d know that things like dropping the product(never is it thrown away, it’s still packaged)or bone dust from the saws or even simple debris from the environment or handling should be washed off. Think about a chicken that fell on a processing facility floor without being washed, then you buy said chicken, remove the packaging and set it straight into the baking pan. All the debris, dirt gunk, etc isn’t cooked off, the bacteria is just not the debris, is it safe to eat, most likely but that still doesn’t make it sanitary.
We literally walked from outside onto the floor and then pick up chickens and pop en back on the line with the enforcer RIGHT THERE. 😂😂
Im oretty sure they'd go out of business if that happens
@@Mani-period
So you’re the problem. Nasty and lazy people shouldn’t work in places like that.
I don’t eat chicken but I do think it should be washed first.
@@lakctalks2818 sounds like how they do it in africa
It's important to thoroughly wash the chicken to remove any debris, and some people find that soaking it in lime and salt can help tenderize the meat and enhance the flavour. Ultimately, cooking techniques can vary, so it's best to consider various perspectives and decide what works best for you.
I can see the theme going around of who washes their chickens and who doesn't 😂😂😂
Yeah the people that wash their chicken cooks better meals😂
@@marc71231nah
@@marc71231no goob cleaning your chicken has a bigger chance of passing around salmonella
@@johnpauldriskill8737Yeah cause so many people who get salmonella get it from sink countertops 🙄
@@chrxs61632 goob you don’t need to clean chicken
I wash it to get rid of potential remaining stuffs (feathers, solidifed blood, etc) to clean and (hopefully) taste better.
Chickens don’t have fur
@@tarheelsam1they mean feathers
@@tarheelsam1😂👍
there's dedicated rag or paoer towel to dry area and get rid of poorly plucked feathers.
Do your furry chickens give chicken milk?
1- When people say "wash the chicken" , they just mean a quickly rinsing it. Though it won't eliminate bacteria or parasites, it will get rid of any excess blood, feathers, small pieces of bone/cartilage and other things like that.
2- If you have even half a working brain, rinsing your chicken without making a massive mess is a thing can be done with minimal effort. You don't have to "splash chicken juice" everywhere.
3- If you use any kind of soap on any kind of meat, you shouldn't be in a kitchen in the first place...
If you have a whole brain(frontal cortex) you likely live somewhere the food doesn’t have dirt on it, so there’s no need to contaminate everything with salmonella and triconosis
@@shirtpants4203 What are you talking about, no one said anything about dirt. Like I said, chickens sometimes have small bone debris/feathers or some remaining amount of blood on them after being processed. Simply rinsing the chicken with a minimal amount of water is a perfectly reasonable thing to do to get rid of those. And I can do that without "contaminating" my whole kitchen. But if you're incapable of cooking without splashing sh*t everywhere or would rather have these things end up in your plate, then that's on you so go eat your nasty meat somewhere else.
OCD
@@glizzygoblin6444 no, it literally can’t. Germs spread and water splashes. A single drop over your shoulder and whatever behind you is now a vector for whatever Bacteria is on the chicken. It’ll come off in the fryer
@@kokokril7462 You assume I have OCD just because I don't want potentially nasty stuff in my food? Is that it? 🤔
True chefs know the answer.
The Jamaican dude has a point. Get a big bowl, lemons and limes and wash it. Then rinse it really well.
Nope. Washing the chicken does not kill the bacteria at all. Temperature is what kills it. As well the bacteria will be inside the meat itself and you can't even wash it there, that's why it's important to cook your chicken well done, so it's not raw inside. Once chicken is washed, you still can't eat it raw because it had the bacteria. That's why you never find anywhere raw chicken dish. In oppose to raw beef for example, which doesn't have salmonella inside the meat, so you don't have to cook it through. With washing chicken you create splatter and aerosol of bacteria for about 2m radius in your kitchen. Why is in not part of the food safety law in America baffles me... in Europe its illegal and can cause the inspector to close down your business. As well all kitchen stuff must attend and pass the food safety training every 3 years. Since fact is not not a debate to people who think something without evidence.
Your exposing yourself to unnecessary risk and wasting time
Does nothing.
@angelr427 lmao...Jesus christ you're not washing the damn chicken to get rid of bacteria you're doing it to get rid of dirt, blood etc not all countries in the world clean their chicken to the standards of North america.
I'm caribbean born and raised. lime and vinegar dunk for 5mins you're not splattering anything.
Jeeze mama wasn't wrong about the white not seasoning their chicken and I'm not falling for that not washing chicken nonsense yall got going on either.
@@angelr427washing the chicken will remove the microplastics leftover from the packing machine. There are countless videos of raw food under a microscope
As Ethiopian we wash chicken and soak for more than an hour with lemon,salt to get rid of dirt and smell.
I either use vinegar and water or iodized salt and water to clean the layer of slime off of chicken and other solid meats. It really must be a cultural thing. Culturally...white people just don't wash their meat before cooking it.
Fresh chicken doesn't smell like anything though. And I've never seen any dirt on a chicken where I live
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I didn't think Ethiopia had food?
TF kinda chickens does Ethiopia have that they smell before decomposing 😂
If you use a high velocity on your tap, it's bound to splatter everywhere. What people need to use is common sense. I know it's not to remove bacteria as that happens in the cooking process, for me, it's when I clean out the inners of my poultry and remove excess feathers from the skin, I like to wash my chicken. I'll then disinfect all surfaces and my spice containers 🤷🏾♀️
Its not to get rid of the bacteria, its to get rid of the slime and blood when you take it from the grocery, as a caribbean person, "washing" chicken means soaking it in water and vinegar or lime juice to give the meat a better fragrance when you cook it
Here’s a suggestion… 1. Don’t have the water on SUPER BLAST HIGH PRESSURE when you wash it.
That’s literally common sense with washing or rinsing anything. And cleaning the sink and surrounding areas afterwards is common sense, too!
😂😂😂😂 true!
Yes freaking common sence which seems to be odd, strange, and a thing of the past with most people in this day and time...
Why would you wash it bruh
Yes, but that’s so much extra work, with literally no benefit. The bacteria are killed by cooking. The bacteria are not killed by washing it, unless you use chemicals that would make it unfit for consumption.
I just cleaned and prepared some chicken I brought and I didn't splash water everywhere. When I got done I sanitized my area.
I'm Jamaican we washed our meat, with vinegar, fresh lemon/lime and sometimes with salt. And he's absolutely right, immediately we clean up, by sanitizing.
My parents are from Grenada.
We do the same.
I use lemon and water to clean it I should try it with vinegar next time
Jamaican here as well. The vinegar and salt help clean the chicken, and lime (or lemon) help cut the slime off of it. THEN you use little bleach and soap and clean down your cooking area.
Literally the only way...
And not a thing was accomplished, lol
I think to myself how in the world I ended up watching a debate about washing chickens 😂
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I like how all the people who say “yes” are experts on chicken… 🧑🏿🌾 🧑🏿🌾 🧑🏿🌾
I wash my chicken w/ cold water, salt, & lemon/lime. I am not an infomercial actress so I definitely don't have the water on full blast so it splashes ridiculously off the chicken, out of the sink, & across the counters. I also sanitize my kitchen afterwards. It gets the excess blood off, cuts through that slimy film, and gives me the opportunity to inspect what I'm about to eat. I especially love to clean red meat (beef or lamb) with lemon/lime. It cuts through the tougher connective tissues and tenderizes the meat.
thank you!
Pet it dry with a paper towel, nothing else, everything else you are doing is contaminating all of your kitchen. What you are describing is a brine, whit salt that usually prevents bacterial growth, it's a comple different thing than washing
I don't get why people wash chicken under running water. If you wash it in large bowls a couple time, it would be clean without all those splatters and a smaller area for you to clean.
@@paoloriente5233You should clean your kitchen everyday. It is not a tough chore it is sanitation. Things get dirty when cooking that is why we clean up after ourselves.
@@paoloriente5233people confuse a brine for washing and its insane, two totally different definitions 😂
In my opinion, there is a layer of slime that lemon, lime, vinegar remove. I am Jamaican, so it also might be an island ting.
I'm always curious about meats in hot climates, and figure there's gotta be extra steps in keeping them fresh-tasting, and not just using refrigeration. Did the jerk process begin as a method of preserving or extending shelf-life at all?
Edit: I went a-googling, and one of the pages on the roots of jerk said:
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When did this style of cooking start?
Most historians agree Jamaica was settled by the Arawak indians over 2500 years ago from South America. They used similar techniques to smoke and dry meat in the sun or over a slow fire, that were common in Peru. This was important as the dried beef could be taken on journeys and eaten as is or chopped and reconstituted in boiling water. This ancient technique goes on today and is known as jerky.
In 1492 Columbus claimed it for Spain and enslaved the Arawak indians. Soon they died and were replaced by African slaves.
In the 1700's some of the slaves escaped and hid in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica and became known as Maroons, They had to keep watch closely to evade the British army from recapture.
With food in short supply the learned to catch wild boars in the forest. Using salt , peppers and spices they learned to preserve the meat. They knew not when their next kill would be."
So it seems like it has roots in preservation and curing. Side note - fuck Columbus and any of those old enslaving piece of shit motherfuckers. I think the people would just as easily have discovered the delicious jerk method without the horrors they inflicted, thanks.
the acid starts to actually cook the meat, thats the same as ceviche.
As a white person i prefer my chicken without wash.
It’s not just an island thing it’s a black thing.
It’s a black thang
As a Haitian man I concur with my Jamaican brother
Oh yeah, you guys also wash those mud pies as well??
@@elilopez9463😐. Here comes the racists, at least our food is seasoned with more than salt and pepper 😭
If you noticed only the black folks wash their chicken. The whites do not. That says a lot about culture and upbringing. I will continue to wash my chicken and I refuse to eat chicken outside my home, simple!
@@elilopez9463 illegal immigrant trying to make racist comments, what a joke you are 🤣
@@returntoraven racist???? Lol I bet you those mud pies taste great with more than just salt and pepper, what, do you like to put cayenne, some cumin??? Maybe some old bay, lemon pepper, garlic powder?? 😐
Yes, wash/scrub it with salt as the cleaning agent.
My science teacher used to say "it doesn't matter if your answer is different what matters is how you back it up"
There is a reason they were a teacher and not a scientist
- Do NOT wash your chicken!!! -
All Asians gather around and laugh 😂😂😂
😂😂😂 you wrong bro yes wash it chicken
Tbf, I think only white people are saying to not wash it.
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And Caribbeans as well. We wash our chicken..
It’s less about bacteria, more about removing any physical debris and that weird aftertaste you get if you don’t wash meat esp pre packaged meat in supermarkets. To prevent splashing, just wash it gently in a bowl of cold water, then use salt and lime
Imagine not understanding heat kills bacteria better than water (which spreads bacteria)
THIS. And yes, salt & lime/ lemon/ vinegar works too.
@@kalebball5144are you illiterate
@@kalebball5144you must be white 🤡
@@kalebball5144the meat is still gonna be cooked dumbass 😂 just rinsing of the outer part first. Not like we wash and just eat, obviously heat will still be applied and used.
As Ethiopian we wash it with lemon and salt but sometimes in America we use lemon and vinegar.