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Are you preparing chicken for the holiday? There is one thing that is important for you to do. And no, it's not washing the chicken - Walla! health

2022-04-13T04:34:59.242Z


Are you preparing chicken for the holiday or for Friday dinner? There is one instruction that for some reason cooks miss and is critical to your health. So what is it about? Come in, come in


Are you preparing chicken for the holiday?

There is one thing that is important for you to do.

And no, that's not washing the chicken

Are you preparing chicken for the holiday or for Friday dinner?

There is one instruction that for some reason most cooks miss, and is especially critical to your health.

So what is it about?

Come in, come in

Walla!

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13/04/2022

Wednesday, 13 April 2022, 07:36

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Just before the next Passover on us for good, a new study, recently published in the Journal of Food Protection, shows that there is a surprising proportion of people who are unfamiliar with one of the most basic cooking tips when it comes to making chicken - wash your hands, not your meat.



Researchers from the University of North Carolina State recruited 300 home cooks and set them a task: to make a salad and chicken.

They were placed in special experimental kitchens, equipped with cameras that monitored their preparation techniques.

In assessing the effect of poultry washing on kitchen contamination, the researchers found that more than a quarter of study participants contaminated the salad they prepared after washing the nice poultry.

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The 300 home cooks who were recruited testified that they used to wash poultry before cooking.

The researchers sent information on food safety to 142 of the study participants via e-mail, describing risk reduction efforts - including the recommendation not to wash fine poultry during food preparation.

The remaining 158 study participants did not receive the information.



Participants were then asked to cook chicken thighs and make a salad.

After preparing the chicken thighs, but before putting the chicken in the oven, the participants were called out of the kitchen to conduct a short interview.

Participants were then sent back to the kitchen to cook the chicken thighs, prepare the salad and clean the kitchen as they would at home.



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Wash your hands, and your sink.

Raw chicken (Photo: ShutterStock)

What the study participants did not know was that the chicken thighs were vaccinated with a harmless strain of bacteria that the researchers could identify.

This allowed researchers to examine kitchen surfaces to see if cross-contamination had occurred during food preparation and cooking.

When study participants left the kitchen to conduct the interview, the researchers examined the kitchen to identify any possible contamination.

This process was repeated after each participant had finished cooking the meal and cleaned the kitchen.

The prepared salad is also tested for possible contamination.

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93 percent of the participants who received the email with the food preparation instructions did not wash the chicken, compared to 39 percent of the participants who did not receive the explanations in the email.

However, the researchers were surprised to see that people who did wash the chicken and people who did not wash the chicken had similar levels of contamination from the raw chicken in their prepared salads.

So what's the explanation?



"We think the infection in the salad is due to people doing a bad job of washing their hands after handling the raw chicken, and / or doing a poor job of disinfecting the sink and surrounding surfaces before rinsing or treating the salad," the researchers said. "The kitchen sinks became contaminated with the raw chicken, while there was relatively little contamination of the nearby counters," the researchers said.



"This was a bit surprising, because the common logic is that the risk associated with washing chicken is because water splashed from the chicken and contaminated the surrounding surfaces. Instead, the sink itself becomes contaminated, even when the chicken is not washed," they said. But this study demonstrates the need to focus on preventing sink contamination and emphasizes the importance of washing hands and cleaning and disinfecting surfaces. "

  • health

  • Nutrition and diet

  • Preventive nutrition

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  • chicken

  • meat

  • hand washing

  • Passover

  • germs

Source: walla

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