To Wash or Not to Wash....

In article said:

Do you wash?

-Tracy

Meats? No. I've always heard that the drippy water spreads more stuff
around than it washes away.

Produce I always wash though. I was horrified when taking a cooking
class at a local store. The "chef" was making a salad with greens and
pear and used the greens right out of the bag (which I know is supposed
to be ok but is slightly icky to me) and said there was no need to wash
the pear because it was organic. huh? There's no dirt, bugs or bird
[censored] on organic farms?

marcella

Marcella Peek said:

In article said:

Do you wash?

Quoted message said:

-Tracy

Meats? No. I've always heard that the drippy water spreads more stuff
around than it washes away.

Produce I always wash though. I was horrified when taking a cooking
class at a local store. The "chef" was making a salad with greens and
pear and used the greens right out of the bag (which I know is supposed
to be ok but is slightly icky to me) and said there was no need to wash
the pear because it was organic. huh? There's no dirt, bugs or bird
[censored] on organic farms?

marcella

People seem to be misled about organic to the same degree they are
about those "health" stores that sell things advertised as "all
natural." Well, I suspect botulism is all natural, too, along with
lots of other icky bacteria.

I wash all poultry, under the faucet with running water, never so that
what runs off accumulates somewhere. That's the only protein I wash.

I wash all greens and produce. Right out of the bag, if you indulge
in those, they are very, very dry, and just plain tough and
unappetizing. Crisping them up in a spinner and some further
refrigeration makes them a lot better.

N.

In article said:

Do you wash?
-Tracy

I do.
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-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
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Quoted message said:

In article said:

Do you wash?

-Tracy

Meats? No. I've always heard that the drippy water spreads more stuff
around than it washes away.

Produce I always wash though. I was horrified when taking a cooking
class at a local store. The "chef" was making a salad with greens and
pear and used the greens right out of the bag (which I know is supposed
to be ok but is slightly icky to me) and said there was no need to wash
the pear because it was organic. huh? There's no dirt, bugs or bird
[censored] on organic farms?

marcella

I do wash, but really, what do we think we are getting off in a stream of
cold water? Sand, sure, but that requires a bath. The rest I think stay
put. If I am suspicious I use green clay and then a rinse. It supposedly
removes pesticides.

Tracy said:

But then I got curious so I googled and found this:

http://tinyurl.com/22bowf

They say *NOT* to soak dry-cured country hams?

"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."

-sw

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Quoted message said:

Do you wash?

Regularly.

The Ranger
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Microsoft gambled that making their users fault-tolerant was
a better use of resources than making their software reliable.
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In article said:

I visited a friend this past weekend and we cooked together. I always
wash/rinse my chicken before cooking and she said she never does. I was
shocked. She even said to me "why" and I was even more shocked. She
said she never washes/rinses any meat products. I wash everything. I
don't think she even washes the veggies. No wait, she did use a salad
spinner for the greens.

She also uses hot tap water for pasta- she says it's quicker to boil.

But then I got curious so I googled and found this:

http://tinyurl.com/22bowf

Do you wash?

-Tracy

I always rinse meat off.
For steaks and stuff, it rinses off bone dust/fragments that are gritty
when eaten. For other stuff? Well, it just seems tidier and it was what
mom taught me to do.

It sure won't hurt it!
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Quoted message said:

I visited a friend this past weekend and we cooked together. I always
wash/rinse my chicken before cooking and she said she never does. I was
shocked. She even said to me "why" and I was even more shocked. She
said she never washes/rinses any meat products. I wash everything. I
don't think she even washes the veggies. No wait, she did use a salad
spinner for the greens.

She also uses hot tap water for pasta- she says it's quicker to boil.

But then I got curious so I googled and found this:

http://tinyurl.com/22bowf

Do you wash?

-Tracy

Interesting reading, although I always thoroughly rinse chicken,
whether whole or pieces. Not because of nasties, but because there's
always little bits of liver or other innards adhering that cause off
flavors in the cooking - especially when making soup.

Omelet said:

In article said:

I visited a friend this past weekend and we cooked together. I always
wash/rinse my chicken before cooking and she said she never does. I was
shocked. She even said to me "why" and I was even more shocked. She
said she never washes/rinses any meat products. I wash everything. I
don't think she even washes the veggies. No wait, she did use a salad
spinner for the greens.

She also uses hot tap water for pasta- she says it's quicker to boil.

But then I got curious so I googled and found this:

http://tinyurl.com/22bowf

Do you wash?

-Tracy

I always rinse meat off.
For steaks and stuff, it rinses off bone dust/fragments that are gritty
when eaten. For other stuff? Well, it just seems tidier and it was what
mom taught me to do.

It sure won't hurt it!

I totally agree. What can it hurt? I wash everything and always keep
meat separate.

The weird thing was that my friend didn't really have a reason why she
didn't bother. If she had come out and said the USDA says..blah blah
blah...but she didn't.

She's not the best of cooks, but she at least tries.

I don't remember my mother washing chicken. My husband used to work in
the food industry (college dining) and is vigilant about food safety.

-Tracy

In article said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Do you wash?

-Tracy

I always rinse meat off.
For steaks and stuff, it rinses off bone dust/fragments that are gritty
when eaten. For other stuff? Well, it just seems tidier and it was what
mom taught me to do.

It sure won't hurt it!

I totally agree. What can it hurt? I wash everything and always keep
meat separate.

If nothing else, it rinses dust off of veggies, and any clotted blood
off of meat. I don't care for the texture of that stuff.

Quoted message said:

The weird thing was that my friend didn't really have a reason why she
didn't bother. If she had come out and said the USDA says..blah blah
blah...but she didn't.

She's not the best of cooks, but she at least tries.

I don't remember my mother washing chicken. My husband used to work in
the food industry (college dining) and is vigilant about food safety.

-Tracy

Mom rinsed/washed all foods for various reasons.

The only thing I don't rinse off is bagged greens, but I'm reconsidering
that.

I need a salad spinner.
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Peace, Om

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Do you wash?

Regularly.

The Ranger
--
Microsoft gambled that making their users fault-tolerant was
a better use of resources than making their software reliable.
-- Paul Guertin, alt.peeves, 3/20/01

I wash veggies and fruit but not meats.
I wash veggies with a concern more about chemicals such as insecticides
than worry of dirt. Bird droppings!...now I'm freaked.

--

The house of the burning beet-Alan

It'll be a sunny day in August, when the Moon will shine that night-
Elbonian Folklore

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Quoted message said:

Do you wash?

Regularly.

The Ranger
--
Microsoft gambled that making their users fault-tolerant was
a better use of resources than making their software reliable.
-- Paul Guertin, alt.peeves, 3/20/01

I wash veggies and fruit but not meats.
I wash veggies with a concern more about chemicals such as insecticides
than worry of dirt. Bird droppings!...now I'm freaked.

You must not have sparrows flying around the grocery store... ;-)
--
Peace, Om

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Marcella Peek said:

In article said:

Do you wash?

-Tracy

Meats? No. I've always heard that the drippy water spreads more stuff
around than it washes away.

Produce I always wash though. I was horrified when taking a cooking
class at a local store. The "chef" was making a salad with greens and
pear and used the greens right out of the bag (which I know is supposed
to be ok but is slightly icky to me) and said there was no need to wash
the pear because it was organic. huh? There's no dirt, bugs or bird
[censored] on organic farms?

marcella

it's o.k. because it's organic [censored].

your pal,
blake

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blake murphy said:

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Produce I always wash though. I was horrified when taking a cooking
class at a local store. The "chef" was making a salad with greens and
pear and used the greens right out of the bag (which I know is supposed
to be ok but is slightly icky to me) and said there was no need to wash
the pear because it was organic. huh? There's no dirt, bugs or bird
[censored] on organic farms?

marcella

it's o.k. because it's organic [censored].

your pal,
blake

<snork>

And you chided me about bee barf...

;-)
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Peace, Om

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Do you wash?

Regularly.

The Ranger

i usually just dust myself off. the feathers tickle like crazy,
though.

your pal,
blake

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In article said:

Quoted message said:

> Do you wash?
>
>
> -Tracy

I always rinse meat off.
For steaks and stuff, it rinses off bone dust/fragments that are gritty
when eaten. For other stuff? Well, it just seems tidier and it was what
mom taught me to do.

It sure won't hurt it!

I totally agree. What can it hurt? I wash everything and always keep
meat separate.

If nothing else, it rinses dust off of veggies, and any clotted blood
off of meat. I don't care for the texture of that stuff.

Quoted message said:

The weird thing was that my friend didn't really have a reason why she
didn't bother. If she had come out and said the USDA says..blah blah
blah...but she didn't.

She's not the best of cooks, but she at least tries.

I don't remember my mother washing chicken. My husband used to work in
the food industry (college dining) and is vigilant about food safety.

-Tracy

Mom rinsed/washed all foods for various reasons.

The only thing I don't rinse off is bagged greens, but I'm reconsidering
that.

I need a salad spinner.
--
Peace, Om

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"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a [censored]" -- Jack
Nicholson

After the whole salmonella scare over the packaged/bagged spinach the bagged
greens seemed to be the worst offenders since most were imported from Mexico
from farms that used human waste as fertilizer..........if you didn't just
pick or kill it yourself and know what touched it or handled it before you,
wash it.
-ginny

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Tracy <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Do you wash?

Regularly.

i usually just dust myself off. the feathers tickle like crazy,
though.

French?

The Ranger

Tracy said:

I visited a friend this past weekend and we cooked together. I
always wash/rinse my chicken before cooking and she said she never
does.

I rinse off chicken and pat dry it with a paper towel. This isn't a
concern about bacteria, it's just that chicken usually is a bit
slippery, and it's easier to handle that way.

Brian

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won't shut up.
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The only thing I don't rinse off is bagged greens, but I'm reconsidering
that.

I need a salad spinner.
--
Peace, Om

Om, you don't need a $25 spinner, either, like from Oxo.

I got one at K-Mart for $4 or $5, and it works great.

Or, there's always the "swing it in a dishtowel" process. ;-)

N.