Would you eat it?

[BandCollector]

Nope!! Not Me or Mine!
No Raw Chicken.
Pork to 145°+
Beef 137° to 143°.
No Raw Fish, no matter what Japanese name you put on it.


Bear

I'm with you Bear. . . . Even the Caveman learned to cook their meat!

Good luck with your experiment Chef Jimmy!

John

 

[Bearcarver]

JJ, I've been eating in truck stops for the last 42 years and have had food poisoning 5 times. There's NO WAY I'd eat raw chicken, even if I could get psst the (IMO) disgusting mouth feel of it.
Gary

Hmmm, with all the in & out of state traveling I've done, Truck Stops were my first choice.
There were two ways of calculating if the food was good or not:
#1 If there were a bunch of 18 wheelers in the Parking Lot, there was a good chance the food was good.
#2 Once you went inside, if the waitresses were ugly the food should be good, because the girls weren't the attraction.

Bear

 

[atomicsmoke]

#1 If there were a bunch of 18 wheelers in the Parking Lot, there was a good chance the food was good.
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Seeing few 18 wheelers outside the truck stop restaurant could have meant they were serving sushi :-) -:)

 

[idahopz]

Definitely thinking about raising my own chickens at some point in the future.
I am tired of bland chicken. And i tried everything from factory chicken, to grass fed, to ree range, to friendly farmer, to organic....some taste better...but none are satisfying.

Other than someone needing to tend the chickens every day, there is no downside to raising your own. I've never has better tasting chicken (no matter how you like it cooked), and the egg yolks were the most orange (and flavorful) I've experienced. Definitely worth a try at least once.

 

[daricksta]

No way would I eat it. I made a mistake over the past weekend where I left a couple of ribeye steaks and a couple of chicken breasts in our car overnight. Had to throw both packages out. I thought that maybe cooking the steaks would've killed the bacterial nasties but I didn't want to mess around with the chicken. Hated to waste the money on those meats but my wife was right that we shouldn't take the risk of cooking it and eating it.

 

[wbf610]

NOPE, not doing it. I’m allergic to chicken.

 

[okie362]

Hmmm, with all the in & out of state traveling I've done, Truck Stops were my first choice.
There were two ways of calculating if the food was good or not:
#1 If there were a bunch of 18 wheelers in the Parking Lot, there was a good chance the food was good.
#2 Once you went inside, if the waitresses were ugly the food should be good, because the girls weren't the attraction.

Bear

Just don't taste the lot lizards! (Sorry, I couldn't help it. It just came out)

 

[rc4u]

i watch so many people not wash and rub and defat the chicken now days ..not like my mama taught me.. i could never just rinse and throw on pan. oh and the turkey!! even tv just shows putting in pan after removing giblets...it takes me 20 minutes to clean one.. this does wash very much of the germ as its starts outside and not inside the meat...if you rub skin and meat portions good you are already 70 times better than restaurants that just open and throw.

 

[RiversideSm0ker]

I just couldn't do it. My bite would be the unfortunate one. Plus the soft texture of raw chicken is something I don't think that I could get past. I will keep mine cooked but more power to you Chef :)

George

 

[daricksta]

i watch so many people not wash and rub and defat the chicken now days ..not like my mama taught me.. i could never just rinse and throw on pan. oh and the turkey!! even tv just shows putting in pan after removing giblets...it takes me 20 minutes to clean one.. this does wash very much of the germ as its starts outside and not inside the meat...if you rub skin and meat portions good you are already 70 times better than restaurants that just open and throw.

The new thinking is to not rinse poultry before using. All it does is spread contaminated water inside the sink and potentially outside as well. I only trim skinless, boneless chicken breasts of extra fat and whatever small bones and bloody stuff I might find. For whole chicken and turkey, I toss the giblets package because no one in my family eats it. My mom loved the giblets but unfortunately she's long gone.

 

[gmc2003]

We rinse the chicken and try to cut off any and all of the weird fatties that we see. We also cook the neck, giblets and heart. My wife loves them. I also add a bouillon cube to the mix and use it for injecting.

Chris

 

[chopsaw]

The new thinking is to not rinse poultry before using.

I agree , and stopped doing it . Sometimes it's hard not to . We were taught different , but I see the logic .

 

[SonnyE]

I can't recall ever rinsing chicken.
But then, it gets cooked so well here, it's sterilized.

Now game meat, I use to soak for 24 hours, fresh water and salt each 8 hours.
Really made Antelope taste fabulous!

 

[johnmeyer]

I've seen many posts about not washing chicken, and have read the USDA page. I don't buy it at all because there are so many other ways that raw chicken juice gets splattered:

When you take the chicken out of the package, there is juice everywhere, and it spatters.
When you cut it, juice spatters.
When you pull the skin off, stuff goes flying.
And, of course, your hands are completely contaminated, and then you touch things.​

The idea that rinsing the chicken is going to somehow introduce a whole new level of danger makes zero sense to me. In addition, whatever does get splattered is considerably diluted with water that contains (in my house) chlorine, which is added specifically to kill pathogens.

When this has come up before, people have mentioned having seen how poultry is processed in a big poultry processing plant. I saw the big tanks in a poultry processing film, and having seen that, I much prefer to remove the last remains of the "slurry" of stuff that is leftover from the processing, not so much for safety, but for taste.

Some safety advice, such as the steps you should take to prevent cross contamination, clearly make sense. This advice does not, and I have ignored it completely ever since I first heard about it.

 

[daricksta]

I can't recall ever rinsing chicken.
But then, it gets cooked so well here, it's sterilized.

Now game meat, I use to soak for 24 hours, fresh water and salt each 8 hours.
Really made Antelope taste fabulous!

I've always felt the same way about chicken. So far I've never worked with game meat. And I think you're the first person I've ever read who ate antelope meat. Is it a lot like venison or elk? And I've only eaten venison twice in my life, and one of the times was smoked jerky.