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Should you wash raw chicken? It’s a question that’s hung around for a while. There is a clear answer though, and it’s important to know it.
Not only is chicken on our list of riskiest foods, but preparing chicken around other ingredients runs the risk of contaminating them. It’s obvious that chicken should be prepared with a little care. Most people are aware of this. But some myths still persist in the kitchen, and washing your chicken is a big one.
Like many cooking techniques, lots of people who still wash chicken saw their grandma or dad do so. Or they saw, in the first step of their dinner recipe, a direction to wash their chicken. My family washed chicken for as long as I can remember. But this step might be doing more harm than good.
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