Preparing and cooking chicken safely requires a bit of care to avoid cross contamination and foodborne illness.
When we talk about safely preparing food at home, we often stress the importance of washing and cleaning as we go. With raw poultry, however, experts make an exception: They say never wash your chicken.The risk is at its greatest when raw chicken is prepared for cooking, especially when people choose to wash it, says Meredith Carothers, food safety specialist for the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service. But that’s not the only time you should be careful.
Sanitizing the sink is essential because so much food prep happens there, including handling produce and washing other dishes and utensils, says Hillary Ayers, a family and consumer sciences agent with the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension Orange County.Keep in mind that rinsing or soaking chicken does not destroy bacteria. Only cooking to the proper temperature will kill the pathogens that can cause salmonella-related illness, Carothers says.
If your dishwasher has a sanitize setting and your tools are dishwasher-safe, you can clean them this way.
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