Re: I ate undercooked chicken -- help
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Date: November 21, 2012 07:38AM
whole bone in or skinless breast Wrote:
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> I hope you rinsed it under the faucet before
> cooking it. It's always a good idea to rinse
> meats before cooking.
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> The salmonella risk is mostly due to fecal matter
> during the slaughter and processing. I think the
> real risk is with whole chicken, and bone-in
> parts. Boneless skinless breasts are probably
> fairly clean coming out of the factory.
Actually a lot of cooks advise you don't do that anymore. When you do that, you tend to splash water around and guess what, the water contains that contamination. If you cook it properly, you won't have to worry about it.
Whole chickens, the same applies with red meat. Whole cuts of meat tend to be cleaner because less surface area is exposed to contamination. That is why there is such a problem with hamburger meat vs other meats. All that surface area getting ground up together. Like mixing yeast in dough.
With a whole chicken, there is less surface area exposed to the meat, unless you just get a bad chicken in the first place. Those packaged breasts are more exposed to contamination than in a whole chicken. Times change and new information comes out. Washing poultry isn't necessary, if you are a messy person.
Your best bet is to smell it. If it smells bad it's a non-starter. If not, cooking it properly will do fine.