Should we be washing chicken before cooking?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Concerns that more Australians are unnecessarily washing raw chicken before
cooking it again huh. Food Safety Information Council Deputy chair
Julian Cox said the need to wash poultry, including chicken,
before cooking, was a total miss and could increase food
safety risk. Despite what you've been seeing on social media,

(00:20):
she'd never wash raw chicken before cooking as this will
likely spread bacteria throughout your kitchen and increasing the risk
of food board food born illness. So it's pretty much
taken off in social media suggesting you should and it's misinformation. Basically,
do you wash your chicken? Never in my life.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Never in my life.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
If I had a pet chicken, i'd give him a
nice shampoo every day.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Again.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
But no, I've never washed a chicken.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
I know someone who does, and she wears gloves when
she cuts up chicken.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
It's a bit of a germ thing for her.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
And I remember watching her at a house once and
I was like, what is going on?

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Is this a cry for help?

Speaker 3 (01:01):
She put on the plastic gloves and then she washed
it and then she cut it gold coast.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
This is going to be the end of it, right,
because we can get the right answer, do you wash
your chicken? Do you wash your chalk before you eat it?

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Seven? One, one two nine?

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Do you wash raw chicken before you eat it?

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Never thought we'd say this sentence ever radio.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Look, we've been radi a long time. Yeah, never has
this been a phone topic. So this is inaugural. This
is what you call it, inaugural.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Inaugural. We'll put it out there with what's your favorite
chopping biscuit? Yeah, right up there.