To wash or not to wash?
Angry critic congratulates Roskachestvo sovramshi
The media pulled this statement of Roskachestvo, and I would not have found out about it if I had not been asked to comment for the radio. I got to study the infopod, and there everything is as we like – distortions, distortions and attribution to the original source of my thoughts.
For example,
"... according to a report by American experts, in 25% of cases, people who washed poultry before cooking were diagnosed with acute intestinal infection caused by salmonella."
There is no such thing in the original source at all. There are not 25%, but 26%, and there is no fixed intestinal infection, but "During the study, 26 percent of participants who washed raw poultry transferred bacteria from this raw poultry into a ready-to-eat vegetable salad." Which is slightly not the same at all.
And then a cunning feint with the ears is done. We take the phrase from the original source, where it says about all food infections in general, and unobtrusively slightly correct it, putting it right after the paragraph about the terrible salmonellosis from washed chicken, after which we have 3 thousand dead from salmonellosis alone. Lovely.
And, most interestingly, it is absolutely unclear why to do this. There are a lot of really interesting things in the original source. So, it turns out that actually washing or not washing is generally your business, if only because 31% of those who did not wash the chicken had exactly the same situation as 26% of those who washed: bacteria got on the salad. That is, washing is still better than not washing, it turns out.
But why did this happen? For one elementary reason, which we were taught at one time in military hygiene: the paths of raw meat should not intersect with the paths of other products. Separate knives, separate cutting boards, separate sinks for washing. It seems to be a well-known thing, the girls in home economics were also taught this. But where is home economics now, yeah, extra knowledge, now is the time for food delivery and getting rid of kitchen slavery, only they forgot to inform the microbes. As a result, housewives and housewives who took part in the study washed the chicken in the sink, as a result of which 60% of fans of chicken washing found funny salmonella in the sink, and even those who suspected something and then washed the sink, in 14% of cases salmonella remained, because the sink was washed incorrectly. Then the vegetables intended for salad were washed in the same sink – and here you have bacterial contamination in all its glory.
So the idea is not to not wash the chicken at all. You never know if she's covered in blood (not necessarily in her own, everything happens), in the remains of intestines, feathers and other things. The idea is to comply with the requirements of sanitary and hygienic safety: for any raw meat, its own tools, if the meat is cut first, then before moving on to raw vegetables, which are not planned to be thermally processed, you need to wash everything thoroughly - and the countertop, and hands, and even a knife with a cutting board to change. Well, the authors in the original source advise first to make a salad and put it away, and then start eating chicken, which is not without logic.
It's amazing that in the XXI century we have to explain such simple things.
In order not to get up twice: if the eggs are then boiled, then I don't care if they were washed before or not. It seems obvious that you will wash them before cooking, if they are in droppings and feathers, and you will store them in their natural form, right? Well, about the fact that the whole taste and aroma of mushrooms is washed off with water, I won't even comment on anything, I hope it's obvious that this is nonsense. However, if there are fans of crunching sand on their teeth – velkam, you can not wash.
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