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by bowsamic 1314 days ago
You shouldn’t be washing poultry
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It's processed under iffy conditions in the states. Curious, why not?
You're more likely to spread the contamination rinsing, splashing, wiping, etc than you are just putting it wherever you're cooking it.
That seems to be an argument for not washing your hands where anyone brushes their teeth.
Cooking the outside kills anything dangerous there, washing it will splash it and salmonella everywhere. Black people wash chicken as part of their culture, but if you have no cultural reason to do so you absolutely should not