Do you wash ground beef and steaks with water before cooking them?!
Do you wash ground beef and steaks with water before cooking them?
Or do you just cook/grill it without washing, meaning you assume it is good/clean enough the way it was packed in the store?
Answers: Steaks sometimes, ground beef never. Source(s):
http://www.food-drink-faq.com.cn... Oh Yes, I run them through a dish washer cycle before I cook them. I wash the blood off! I don't enjoy cooking the germs and blood even though the heat supposedly kills it, the thought makes me sick! Washing any kind of meat before cooking only spreads the gross stuff around it! It's actually a good idea to NOT wash it beforehand. Anything dangerous to you will be cooked away if you do it properly! Wash your meat? (Pardon my little joke) Seriously, that sounds digusting and I don't do that. washing it unflavors it. no Eric, I do not "wash" ground meat ! Never washed my meat, except chicken legs.
I figured the high heat temp. kills the germs that may still be on it.
Buy a cookbook or print some out off the Internet.
Might find a famous chef web page. I think Julia Child was an earlier famous chef. No, I don't wash my "red meat" before cooking it... I just marinate it and cook it... if you cook it properly, the bacteria gets cooked away... no need to wash...
Do rinse your chicken and pork though... Any bacteria that would be on the meat will be killed in the cooking and processing. I would never eat raw meat.
Heating the meat as ion broiling it is the best. ground beef...no...steak maybe I don't wash beef and steaks before cooking them. Can you imagine what that would do to ground beef?
I do rinse poultry well in cold water before I cook it, though. I do rinse the meat off before I cook either one. It is also a good idea to let the meat sit on your counter for a few minutes before you cook it. I am very careful about handling and cooking meat. i would wash the steak but not the ground beef . Vixen is correct. I recently learned from a professional chef that, by washing your meat, you are just spreading/splashing the bacteria around your kitchen and other surfaces which may come into contact with the meat or your hands again later. If the food is cooked properly, the germs will be killed and you'll have nothing to worry about. =)