oh my god, "washing chicken" discourse. cohost has finally Made It. we're a real social media site now
HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL OPINION TO FOLLOW:
the normal-person version of this debate goes like:
"ew, are you washing that raw chicken?"
"I'm rinsing the myoglobin slime and bone fragments off before I cook."
"what about cross-contamination?"
"oh, I'll scrub the sink before I perform surgery here later, don't worry."
but on birdsite "wash your chicken parts thoroughly with SOAP to unsummon the demons of evil contamination!" must fight to the death with "the CDC says there is no difference between boneless thighs and depleted uranium! everything within 3 feet of your sink is now unclean! UNCLEAN!"
my take is rinse your chicken if you need to (to get blood/feathers/myoglobin off it before cooking); don't, if you don't.
as a person who mostly slaughters and butchers my own poultry this discourse is a) very silly, 2) highly situational, and C) predicated on the state of industrial poultry processing, which is "the CDC insists we treat all poultry products as though they have been pressure-washed in contaminated feces water, because: they probably have. sorry."