How do you clean your chicken?

[StatUS]

Pat dry with some paper towels and start the seasoning and cooking process.

All cleaning it with water does is spread germs in your kitchen.

 

[martin_van_nostrand]

No need to “clean” good quality meat. You only have issues if you buy poor quality meat prepared under hygienically poor standards.

 

[NeilCartwright]

I'm quoting from another thread.

Always wash your chicken. I'm not here for none of this not washing your chicken business.

• Make sure before you do, take all the dishes off the dish drainer.
• You are not to wash your chicken under a running tap under any means, always use a deep bowl and place it in the sink.
• Fill it with water first then cut a lime in two and squeeze the whole lime in; a lemon is fine if you have it, but depending on the size half a lemon will do. Then put the whole fruit in, seed skin and all.
• Place the chicken in the bowl and let sit for 30 mins or so. The muscle of the chicken will start to look a bit opaque as the acid starts to cook the meat.
• Then drain off as much of the water into the sink while using your other hand to prevent the chicken falling into the actual sink. If the chicken has the skin on it then you can squeeze off the excess. Discard the citrus.
• Wash your hands and transfer the chicken to a large ziplock bag. I use a zip lock bag because it's easier to store in the fridge and makes it easier to marinate the meat as well as I do it straight into the bag.

I appreciate you mentioning this, but can i ask you what exactly does this process do differently that rinsing in cold water, then cooking to 165 F not do?

 

[levitate]

Cold rinse.

 

[Luke Cage]

Generally i clean my chicken by bringing the internal temp high enough (165 degrees) to kill any bacteria inside.
Only reason we don't use fire for all sanitation, is most the stuff we want clean would be destroyed if used flame. So we have to settle for less effective cleaning methods like rinsing with water or soap, using sanitizer etc. Not the case with food.

 

[Ashley Banks]

Yall outchea rinsing sirloin steaks under a tap?

The thread said chicken so I assumed we’d all use our better judgement and realize we were all talking about chicken and word like meat would mean chicken since we were specifically asked about chicken. No one I’ve ever heard of washes steaks ground beef etc

 

[Remote]

Limes.

 

[O³ (O cubed)]

Remove skin or excess fat.
Put chicken into bowl. Add water, vinegar and/or lemon.
Massage chicken.
Pour water away. Pat down excess moisture with paper towels.

It amazes me that some you don't wash your chicken. I thought it was just a white people thing. Asians of all stripes & Africans wash their chicken.

 

[High Art]

And here I was, using bleach this entire time.

 

[Hey_zeus]

Remove skin or excess fat.
Put chicken into bowl. Add water, vinegar and/or lemon.
Massage chicken.
Pour water away. Pat down excess moisture with paper towels.

It amazes me that some you don't wash your chicken. I thought it was just a white people thing. Asians of all stripes & Africans wash their chicken.

That's the key. Nobody with sense is rinsing their chicken in sink and cross contaminating their kitchens. You can sanitize the sink after if you have no other choice but this is the way.

 

[Low End Derrick]

The thread said chicken so I assumed we’d all use our better judgement and realize we were all talking about chicken and word like meat would mean chicken since we were specifically asked about chicken. No one I’ve ever heard of washes steaks ground beef etc

Oh I see

Even still, rinsing chicken off in water (or with lime, lemon, etc) is essentially futile.

 

[AAKing23]

I just rinse the shyt, then season then cook

 

[chiefdogg]

Vinegar and water mixture

This and if I don't have Vinegar I'll use limes.

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

Rinse it with cold water. Ppl talking about transferring bacteria to other surfaces like you can’t clean those surfaces. I’m not gonna take some meat out of a pack and just plop it into a pan without rinsing it off.

I remember watching an old Julia Child video, and she said if you ever been in the factory where they package the chicken and see it with your own eyes, you'll definitely want to clean it before cooking.

 

[Caca-faat]

I appreciate you mentioning this, but can i ask you what exactly does this process do differently that rinsing in cold water, then cooking to 165 F not do?

Once you remove meat from its packaging the bacteria built up from processing plant to store then home needs to be destroyed immediately. If you are going to marinate overnight or for any period of time, then washing the meat with acid or salt resets the playing field so to speak buying you time for the marination process. Brining is also a two in one process.