I don’t wash my chicken. She gets really mean when I try to get her in the bath.
@anomander I do the same with packaged chicken. Keep the package in the bag from the store, slice it open and transfer straight to wherever it is going - pan, baggie or bowl to marinate, cutting board. Then close up the store bag and dump it.
Whole chickens and turkey are different though, they are messier to cut open and get out of the packaging. I try to do that right in or next to the sink. I do rinse those but really only the cavities so the blood comes out before I season or stuff them.
We are about to redo our kitchen and I was considering one of those faucets you can turn on by touch but I think I have gotten pretty good at just using my wrist or arm so I can save some money. 
Use my wrist or elbow to open and close the faucet when I work with raw meat or fish. pullout trashcan can be operated with my foot. One of the cutting boards is reserved for meats. Yes, plain hot water would not do - you need a good soapy wash to get everything clean. Faucet also gets a soapy wipedown after prep. Gloves can give a false sense of security… no gloves in my kitchen because nothing I handle there warrants gloving up.
It was September 6, 1987. I googled “60 minutes chicken production” and came across a footnote in a history of federal chicken production oversight. 60 Minutes referred to the liquid that packaged chicken comes in as a “fecal soup.” I appreciate the sink washing concerns, though.
I always wash chicken.
Also, I never buy boneless, skinless chicken because it is flavorless & too dry after cooking.
If you buy a high quality air chilled chicken (such as Bell & Evans), you don’t have to worry about your bird being packed in “fecal soup.” Also, I would not recommend putting a good chef’s knife in the dishwasher. It will take the edge right off.
I don’t rinse a whole chicken unless there is residual ice in the cavity after defrosting. Normally I just pat the chicken dry inside and out with paper towels. Chicken parts don’t get rinsed.
As for packaging, I open the package on a rimmed cookie sheet, from which I dump packaging directly into the trash. The cookie sheet gets washed in hot water with detergent, and the sink is scrubbed with my usual cleansers. I use the back of my hand to turn the tap on and off.
The chicken tastes fine and we don’t get food poisoning, so I have to conclude that this is adequate.
As a footnote, in the past few years I have bought fewer whole chickens for roasting and more Cornish hens. I treat these the same way. When I do buy a whole chicken, it is for soup. I buy “old chickens” (chickens butchered when older, when they are more flavorful) either from an Asian grocery store (complete with head and feet) or, more recently, from a local Mexican grocery. The Asian store chickens come from Bo Bo chicken farms. https://www.bobochicken.com
Is this seriously a 4 page thread? LOL.
I have always rinsed my chicken pieces and rarely if ever cook a whole chicken. I did come across a Caribbean method where they wash the chicken in either lemon water or vinegar. I missed that growing up.
I don’t wash chicken. I also have never washed a mushroom. Somehow we’ve all lived.
Eh, the human body is designed to live through a lot or our species wouldn’t survive. Growing up on a pony farm, my lads often ate without washing hands and I know manure was on them. They lived.
It doesn’t change the fact that my brain doesn’t want to knowingly eat feces of any sort, so I wash my hands, produce, and meat products, especially when I know they are likely to have crud on them. It doesn’t really matter if I can taste it or not.
The only exception is when we’re out camping without a decent source of water. Then my mind switches back to knowing things are likely to be fine.
I do not wash my chickens. They are too hard to catch and they don’t like being dunked into water 
Wash.
I rinse and pat it dry out of the package. I don’t like the chicken juice in the package.
I used to eat dirt, didn’t wash my hands when I was young, don’t use purell now as an adult and definitely don’t wash chicken.
Wait - am I the only one on CC who washes their chicken? The kids make fun of me but it’s like a pre-dinner ritual: I jump in the shower with the “family pack” of boneless skinless chicken breasts and we all come out clean!
Oh - and did I mention I paid $500,000 to get my daughter into USC?
I wash all of my meat. Depending on what needed is I use different things either vinegar salt or lemons. I don’t wash it in the sink. I let the meat soak in a steel bowl. For chicken I would fill it with water and vinegar and let the chicken soak in there for about 5 to 10 minutes. Then I would empty the the mixture out the bowl. Fill the bowl back up with clean fresh water over the chicken. Let let that soak for about 1 minute. Then pour it out. Then put the chicken into a pan pat dry and season.
I wash (or more specifically, rinse with cold water,) only whole chickens I am going to roast. I don’t do that for cut up chickens and definitely not for boneless breasts or thighs.
The exception for me is I do wash whole chickens.
I’m pretty careful. I have two full size sinks, one in my island and one on the counter. I do all my prep on the island. I open my chicken and meats at the counter sink and put the chicken in the pan or in a bag if I’m planning a marinade all done on the counter next to that sink. I put the package carefully inside the bag from the grocer. I also throw that bag into the outside large waste bin I don’t put it in the kitchen garbage. I don’t have any other food on that counter area. I am picky about my chicken and try to only buy from a small chain grocer that is air chilled and trimmed. I don’t have anything to trim and no slim.
Similar to @Rivet2000 I do not wash my chickens. They take dust baths.
I do not rinse raw chicken either.