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When it comes to food safety, it pays to be careful. Properly handling & preparing meat, fish, and poultry to minimize the risk of foodborne illness is key. But one step some people might’ve picked up from relatives or some misguided online advice actually has the potential to increase your chances of getting sick: rinsing raw chicken, which is actually a very bad idea. And here’s why…
Some home chefs (and maybe even some commercial chefs) believe washing raw chicken can help remove pathogens like Salmonella. That is possible…but it’s totally unnecessary. Because cooking poultry up to 165° F will kill off any dangerous bacteria.
But it’s not just about wasted time & effort. According to the USDA, rinsing chicken allows harmful bacteria to spread. A 2019 USDA observational study found bacteria was present in 60% of sinks used to wash poultry; and those sinks still had lingering bacteria even after being cleaned. Because cooks use sinks to rinse foods like lettuce or other vegetables, there’s a really high potential for cross-contamination. And the sink isn’t the only place chickens spread germs. Because water is hitting a hard surface—the uncooked chicken—there’s high potential for contaminated water to splash nearby targets, like clean prep surfaces, dishes, or other food.
Rinsing chicken has origins in how raw meat was sold decades ago. At the time, it wasn’t uncommon for meat to be stocked without any cleaning, leaving residue or other contaminants that made rinsing a reasonable step. But celebrity chefs like Julia Child helped popularize the practice. Nowadays, better food standards mean chicken is already rinsed & cleaned before it’s packaged.
If you want to soak up water already collected on raw chicken, use disposable paper towels then immediately throw them away. Any sponges used to clean where raw poultry has contacted the surface should also be tossed instead of reused. It’s also a good idea to rinse any vegetables before (and after) handling raw chicken.
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Like many old proverbs, “Never look a gift horse in the mouth” used to have a very literal meaning before the passage of time turned it into a figure of speech. Not looking a gift horse in the mouth means being thankful for a gift, even if you secretly wished for something else.
The phrase originated long before the invention of cars, when horses were widely used for work and transportation. The first appearance of this particular proverb is often traced back to A Dialogue: Of the Effectual Proverbs in the English Tongue, published in 1546 by London’s John Heywood, where he argues that “No man ought to look a given horse in the mouth.” But the phrase appears to be much older, with etymologists pointing to Saint Jerome of Stridon, an early Catholic priest who, in his 400 AD commentary on the Bible’s book of Ephesians, wrote, “Noli equi dentes inspicere donati,” which translates to “Never inspect the teeth of a given horse.”
But why a horse? And, more specifically, why its mouth? As any modern-day equestrian could tell you, a horse’s teeth betray its age. You see, horses have two sets of teeth, baby teeth & adult teeth. The older a horse gets, the more its adult teeth elongate & project outward (which is also where we get another equine idiom, “Long in the tooth”). When people needed horses every day, a horse’s value was based on his age. So, if you were going to buy a horse, you’d want to know its age before offering a price. However, if someone offered you a horse for free, it was considered rude to look into its mouth & inspect its age, just as it is considered improper nowadays when you look up your Christmas gift’s price tag on Amazon.
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