Wash fruits and vegetables to get pesticides off them. No pesticides on chicken—you’re not getting the antibiotics and steroids out of the meat by washing it.

That is very disturbing as a still imagine instead of a gif :-|

Should wash cooked chicken too, just in case the cooking didn’t do the job.

This tweet was part of the original roundup that Giri published a month ago, which was linked in the first paragraph of this piece:

Tenant: Pope Thrower

But do you wash your steaks?  Pork chops?  Where does the madness end??

Where do you get your chicken that has gunk on it? Mine never does.

Lol. You think a single insult is a rant? Thank you for confirming that you indeed are a fucking moron.

Like, you’re gonna cook it right? And the surface seems like the place that will most assuredly get to the proper temp to kill bacteria. Unless there is residue on chicken that contributes an undesirable flavor, and there’s not as far as I’m aware, then I can’t see any purpose.

While we’re talking about food sanitation, you really shouldn’t use a wood cutting board with raw meat. Even with washing there are a lot more place for bacteria to hide in wood

No one said that, of course you season/marinate 

I’ve never washed meat, unless it had actual crud on it, just pat dry season (or marinade) and cook it. Anything that is gonna survive cooking is gonna survive a splash under the faucet. I’ll admit I am not the greatest at cooking (better than my mother, the woman who literally burned lettuce), but my only experiences…

I’ve never noticed your first reason to be a big issue. I can see the 2nd, but really you can do that without washing the chicken. 

Unwashed eggs are usually covered in chicken shit.

That said, you need to put washed eggs in the refrigerator because unwashed eggs have a thin, impermeable membrane of protein over than that bacteria can’t get through.  Washing removes this layer, which allows bacteria to get through the calcium carbonate eggshell…

do you put eggs in the fridge?

i’ve never even heard of it and i’ve been around personal and professional kitchens for over 50 years. the only thing i can think of was when my family did our own slaughtering of game or livestock we would spray them down with a hose before hanging them up.

Washing it spreads more germs because the water splashes off of it and the drops can fly all over the place. 

It spreads germs in the sense that water from the sink might splash out, or something.

i wonder who could come up with such a crazy idea that washing chicken was a good thing and then insert it into our national discourse....who would have that kind of power??

Yeah, I never got the point to washing raw chicken so I’ve never done it. It doesn’t accomplish anything. My mom doesn’t either. Don’t remember if my grandma did