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by throwanem 3473 days ago
It's pretty hard to screw up, especially more than once. Here's how to avoid the 90% cases in food poisoning:

- Wash your hands.

- Wash your tools.

- Wash fruits and vegetables before chopping.

- Don't let meat other than whole beef sit at room temperature.

- Cook meat other than whole beef all the way through. Use a thermometer, not a rule of thumb.

- If in doubt, cook it another five minutes.

- Wash anything that touches raw meat other than whole beef before it touches anything else. This includes your hands.

- If in doubt, wash it again.

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Don't wash raw chicken though.
I mean, you can rinse it. Probably should, really. I hope I don't need to specify "don't use soap on food" in so many words...
No! You absolutely should not ever rinse raw chicken. It doesn't do anything except cross contaminate your entire kitchen!! There is really no reason to and very good reasons not to.

http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/homehygiene/Pages/washing-chicken...

http://drexel.edu/dontwashyourchicken/

Good to know!