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Question: say do not wash before cooking??

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Washing or Soaking Meat and Poultry:

Washing raw poultry, beef, pork, lamb, or veal before cooking it is not recommended. Some consumers think they are removing bacteria from the meat and making it safe. For safety, use a food thermometer to be sure the food has reached a safe minimum internal temperature. Beef, veal, and lamb steaks, roasts, and chops can be cooked to 145 °F. All cuts of pork should reach 160 °F. All poultry should reach a safe minimum internal temperature of 165 °F.

Callers to the USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline sometimes ask about soaking poultry in salt water. This is a personal preference and serves no purpose for food safety. If you choose to do this, however, preventing cross-contamination when soaking and removing the poultry from the water is essential.

Sometimes consumers wash or soak country ham, bacon, or salt pork because they think it reduces the sodium or salt enough to allow these products to be eaten on a sodium-restricted diet. However, very little salt is removed by washing, rinsing, or soaking a meat product and is not recommended.
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  • Amy Estelle's Avatar by Amy Estelle
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    • I don't really know. ???
    You should always wash any packaged meats before cooking.
    It has been hygienically cleaned before it was packed. Or it was marinated already and the washing will remove the flavor. Like Chicken barbecue
    Generally this is not a fresh chicken. You are supposed to clean a chicken inside and out, especially if the giblets are inside. I am finding more and more technologically improved chickens out there that are injected with a saline solution to make them fat, thus making you think your getting more meat for your money, when in fact you are getting salt water. Washing the chicken will probably make it deflate and make you realize you were robbed.
    Because it isn't needed. You can rinse it if you want but the cooking temps will kill any bacteria. I usually run water on the inside, just to get the blood, etc. out of the cavity. If you do think you need to wash it, you will do it no harm, and it might make you feel better.
    This is sort of like the tag on a mattress: Do not tear off. They actually mean not to tear it off until you use it, doesn't mean you have to look at tags on everything. Common sense in most things work, doesn't it..


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