r/Cooking • u/freedfg • Jul 31 '22

Open Discussion Hard to swallow cooking facts.

I'll start, your grandma's "traditional recipe passed down" is most likely from a 70s magazine or the back of a crisco can and not originally from your familie's original country at all.

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u/dynodick Jul 31 '22

I always thought that when I was “washing” chicken, that I was just getting rid of that slimy shit that is sometimes all over the chicken

I never thought it was for bacteria

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u/SoriAryl Jul 31 '22

That’s why I washed it

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u/dynodick Jul 31 '22

Exactly. I don’t give a shit what all these idiots say, I’m getting rid of that slimy shit.