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I nearly wrote the sushi one myself.
Another one from a recent thread in general that I agree with. The best sausages have the highest meat content. My favourite sausages usually have other ingredients other than meat, such as caramelised red onions, apple, cheese, leeks, herbs and spices, curry paste in them and I think a small amount of breadcrumbs only improves the sausage. 70-80% meat is about right IMO, if using good quality meat. |
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Eating carrots lets you see in the dark
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I poach breasts from frozen for my cat sometimes and the texture and even smell is different. I wouldn't do them from frozen for the human members of the household!
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My mother thinks you have to cook pork on the day you buy it, otherwise itwill go off
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That a fresh chicken needs washing.
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That a fresh chicken needs washing.
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That a fresh chicken needs washing.
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My mother thinks you have to cook pork on the day you buy it, otherwise itwill go off
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Having both butchered my own chicken, and from having worked in my college's poultry plant (ag major) it's not a bad idea to wash fresh chicken or other poultry. Big animals, the process is different, so not necessary. But whole chicken? Under the taps, always.
They warn against splashes contaminating unit tops and daring boards. I still rinse gently then pat dry with disposable kitchen roll because I often want to rub seasonings to the skin and it's usually a little slippery if it's been under film. |
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That Diet Coke is actually more fattening that normal coke.
It has 0 calories, its not a trick. |
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You find "Do not wash" warnings in supermarkets and farm shops though.
They warn against splashes contaminating unit tops and daring boards. I still rinse gently then pat dry with disposable kitchen roll because I often want to rub seasonings to the skin and it's usually a little slippery if it's been under film. If I wash my own bird, it's trust, but verify, because who knows how many previously went down the line and what the bacteria load is in the washing water. |
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If I wash my own bird, it's trust, but verify, because who knows how many previously went down the line and what the bacteria load is in the washing water.
Not washing chicken is a good idea, and I'm glad they've made it official advice - even if that did only happen some years after I'd worked it out for myself! |
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Having both butchered my own chicken, and from having worked in my college's poultry plant (ag major) it's not a bad idea to wash fresh chicken or other poultry. Big animals, the process is different, so not necessary. But whole chicken? Under the taps, always.
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/homehygie...poisoning.aspx |
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I've never heard of people washing chicken before.
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That Diet Coke is actually more fattening that normal coke.
It has 0 calories, its not a trick. I can't say that I've heard that one, but there are certain theories about diet drinks that don't seem too unreasonable to me. For example, some weight-loss experts say that drinking diet soda may not help you lose weight because the sweet taste sends a message to the brain that a sugar fix is coming, and when it doesn't happen (because diet soda has no sugar), you end up seeking out something that will give you a sugar fix, often from refined carbs as they give the quickest hit. Could be candy, chocolate, bread, pasta. So it might not be that people think the soda itself is fattening, but that it doesn't always help with those trying to lose weight. Of course many people can drink diet soda without having this effect, it all depends on how your body responds to sweet flavours, blood sugar ups and downs, etc.
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I've never heard of people washing chicken before.
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Pre-packed fresh chickens used to include instructions to wash them (along with cooking instructions), so anyone following those would have been liberally spraying bacteria around their kitchen.
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How long ago was this? Shows how much attention I pay to cooking instructions!
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You are completely wrong and actually making it far more dangerous.
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Meh. I've been cooking since I was tall enough to reach the knobs on the stove, and it hasn't killed anyone yet. Of course I don't wash the walls when I'm rinsing off a chicken, I just get the sink wet. Whatever lets you sleep at night, I guess.
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Meh. I've been cooking since I was tall enough to reach the knobs on the stove, and it hasn't killed anyone yet. Of course I don't wash the walls when I'm rinsing off a chicken, I just get the sink wet. Whatever lets you sleep at night, I guess.
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Ok lets pretend that you aren't contaminating stuff by washing it. Why are you washing a chicken? What are you hoping to achieve?
If you have good food hygiene you won't need to worry about spreading bacteria. |
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You can't cook chicken from frozen. You can, it's fine.
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To remove foreign objects, dust, dirt, hair etc. Can't remove that by cooking wouldn't want to eat any of that. Or let's put it this way what are you hoping to achieve when you wash veg?
I wash potatoes and carrots because they are grown in dirt and the shops like to leave some of the dirt on because it looks more "natural". Most of my other veg is frozen or canned and I don't wash it. I do wash fruit that isn't being cooked partly because the shops recommend it, and partly because you don't know what other customers have been prodding it. I also have a vague concern about pesticides but I suspect that's not justified. |
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If you have good food hygiene you won't need to worry about spreading bacteria.
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You are completely wrong and actually making it far more dangerous.
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I can't say that I've heard that one, but there are certain theories about diet drinks that don't seem too unreasonable to me. For example, some weight-loss experts say that drinking diet soda may not help you lose weight because the sweet taste sends a message to the brain that a sugar fix is coming, and when it doesn't happen (because diet soda has no sugar), you end up seeking out something that will give you a sugar fix, often from refined carbs as they give the quickest hit. Could be candy, chocolate, bread, pasta. So it might not be that people think the soda itself is fattening, but that it doesn't always help with those trying to lose weight. Of course many people can drink diet soda without having this effect, it all depends on how your body responds to sweet flavours, blood sugar ups and downs, etc.