not eaying animal products has made my life so much easier in that regard. no need to worry about all the pitentially dangerous stuff on and in dead animals, raised in disgusting conditions :3

Brine don’t wash

My eggs have chickenshit on them and thats' why they don't need refrigeration like you do in the US.

Also, I can eat them raw if I like. Finnish health authorities sign off on that.

Nobody tell him about restaurant kitchens washing their chicken in bleach to remove the smell of freezer burn...

What kind of idiot doesn't wash their food after getting it from the store

So where I live, frozen chicken is cut on a wooden chopping board overlaid with pieces of the carton it came it. Without washing you'll end up with random bits of cardboard, wood, fish fins and possibly sand.

Does washing actually cause the fat to come off though?

I've had bloody chicken before which you do actually want to wash/clean off because cooked blood will completely destroy your dish.

Otherwise you can cut off some cartilage and hard fat that won't render when cooked. No need to wash it.

politics? earth shape? religion? nah, i like to argue about washing or not the chicken when preparing it

Better wash them:

Eating chickens is the most common source of Salmonella poisoning. A 2014 issue of Consumer Reports published that 97 percent of chicken breasts found in retail stores were contaminated with bacteria that could make people sick, and 38 percent of the Salmonella found was resistant to multiple antibiotics. And, according to a national retail-meat survey by the Food and Drug Administration, about 90 percent of retail chicken showed evidence of contamination with fecal matter.

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