The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention try to keep the public safe and healthy, and yet people still don't listen to their advice. The CDC recently tweeted a warning about washing raw chicken and the internet isn't having it!
They post read: “Don’t wash your raw chicken! Washing can spread germs from the chicken to other food or utensils in the kitchen.” It sounds like useful information, but since many, many people grew up watching their parents and grandparents giving chicken breasts a good scrub before putting them in the pan, they don’t want to believe the CDC’s warning.
The CDC estimates that a million people get sick from food poisoning from poultry every year and running lukewarm tap water over raw chicken isn’t going to help stop the spread of the bacteria that it can carry. But it could spread that bacteria all over your sink, counters, and hands, which can contaminate other foods that you eat raw, because it’s the cooking that kills germs - the washing only spreads them.
On Twitter, one person asked, “So we’re supposed to just “cook off” all that gunk from it sitting … for God knows how long?” Another tweeted, “Anyone who does not wash their chicken is just nasty.” Thankfully, at least one Twitter user gets it and was the voice of reason, tweeting, “The CDC wrote this. These are the people that handle Ebola but folks can’t trust their folks on handling poultry?”
See the tweets below. What do you think???