Here's why you should never wash raw chicken from the store Bashny.Net

It turns out that 90% of people wash raw chicken before cooking. The website explains why this should not be done. Raw chicken contains harmful bacteria, particularly Campylobacter and Salmonella are the two main culprit of food poisoning. So washing chicken before cooking — it is logical, right?





And here and there.

Washing raw chicken before cooking contributes to the spread of harmful bacteria throughout the surface of the meat as well as the sink or table.

Jennifer Quinlan of Drexel University, participated in the study dedicated to this topic, which was commissioned by the Department of agriculture of the United States. Quinlan says that, according to polls,90% of people wash raw poultry, and in many recipes and said: "wash and dry". She explains:

"It does not eliminate bacteria and kills them. But there is a risk of spraying bacteria — this is called aerosolizable".

Recently, the Department of agriculture launched the campaign "Food safety in the home," based on the following appeals:

• Maintain purity. As often as possible wash your hands and surfaces.
• Separate. Don't let raw poultry and its juices to touch other foods.
• Cook carefully. A minimum internal temperature of prepared poultry should be 74 °C (measure with a cooking thermometer).
• Cool. Promptly put it in the fridge.

University Drexel also launched a similar campaign called "don't wash your chicken". The aim of the project is to wean people from this harmful habit that can only be welcomed.

When you eat food contaminated with Salmonella, a person develops symptoms such as diarrhea, fever, cramps in the abdomen, nausea and vomiting. Campylobacter in food also cause diarrhea. But these bacteria can bring a man down by as much as 10 days and cause severe pain in the abdomen. Infection Campylobacter may also have long-term health effects: muscle weakness, nerve damage, arthritis and Guillain — Barre syndrome.

According to Quinlan, washing raw chicken is not worth the risk.

"Some people think that wash away the germs. Others simply want to wash off the slime, or is it because the chicken is dirty. The reasons are many, up to mechanically reflex: "Raw should be washed"".

What should I do? To take and cook. High temperature will destroy bacteria in their bodies and will not spread to other products.

via lifter.com.ua/post/4538