Don’t any of you ever pound out your chicken? My son’s preferred way to eat meat is breaded and fried, so I’m always having to pound out cutlets. But even if we’re just doing grilled or broiled or sauteed chicken, I usually pound it out too to make the pieces cook more evenly. It usually ends up being more tender, too.
@TheBigChef - Bell & Evans is the best. My kid is so spoiled, he can usually tell if I’ve cheated and bought store brand chicken. He’s usually OK with Perdue. Lol
I thought those chickens get their yellow skin color from being fed marigold petals - not from golden showers. Or am I just mixing up these thread comments…
I’ll occasionally pound out chicken when making cutlets but what does that have to do with washing?
@3puppies Ew. I’m throwing the yellow flag on that one.
I don’t know - I just saw a lot of posts about people opening the package and putting chicken directly into the pan. Life is never that simple at my house. Lol.
I’ll throw a wrench in the convo and say last night I pounded out a chicken breast, but not into a cutlet, just enough to kind of even it out a little.
Ok, here’s one.
When I lived and worked overseas among expatriates from Canada, UK, Australia and NZ, I discovered that many people don’t rinse their dishes after hand-washing them with soapy water. They just put them in the dish rack to drain. I found that pretty appalling, but then I realized I had been eating off those dishes and had never tasted any soap.
I still rinse, though.
Do you?
I still rinse. AND, I don’t put peanut butter in the fridge.
Agreed, no PB in fridge! But jam goes in fridge, as does maple syrup, to avoid mold growing on it.
People put peanut butter in the fridge?! How the heck do you spread it?
@doschicos I don’t actually doubt it. I’ve read enough differences of opinion on here and I know humans tend to gather in more like-minded groups even if by happenstance of those liking similar things being found at those events (travel options, etc), so I consider this board one of my ways to try to understand others - those I’m likely never to encounter more closely IRL. In that thread (or a similar one), I believe I cautioned that some posters had better save their sanity by never traveling with us. We can be friends online.
Wanna guess where we stand on that one? 
@Nrdsb4 I try to get my guys to at least take off their boots before wandering around the ground floor. I’m not always successful, often evidenced by dirt/debris on my kitchen floor - which they get to clean up when they come back in.
When we visit others we try to do whatever they do. At our house I suggest folks leave (regular) shoes on unless they are muddy.
I’m pretty firm with, “live and let live.”
@CTmom2018 I let the dishwasher handle it most of the time, but the rare things we wash by hand get rinsed.
Natural PB goes in the fridge and is a bear to spread. Regular PB stays out and is used when one doesn’t want to spread the other stuff.
I had to go find the peeing in the shower thread - it’s quite entertaining, and I was reminded of the Seinfeld episode with George!
No way of knowing for sure, so I thoroughly wash them when I get them home. 
I also became terribly sick on bad shrimp while traveling abroad (Greek Isles). My stomach isn’t more sensitive now, but I can’t even look at shrimp without feeling ill and I’m not nearly as adventurous as I used to be when eating out. I only order what I know and feel is safe. Anthony Bordain would have found me a complete bore to have dinner with.
Chicken washer here. I’m surprised that nobody has talked about the removal of the innards.
Procedure:
Well, it is helpful to have a description of how it can be done. Not that I ever will.
If the CDC says not to wash chicken, that’s good enough for me. You cook the chicken thoroughly, anyway.
@doschicos - that was my response! My ex husband thought I was a savage for not putting peanut butter in the fridge because that’s what his mother does. (And we’re not talking about the natural kind, either. We’re talking Jiff here) Honestly, I don’t know how I survived in that family so long.
Waiting to see if the link directly from the cdc site is going to be allowed…
In the meantime, cc’ers are amazing— 10 pages on washing chicken!! LOL! And now we are talking about refrigerating peanut butter!
What about washing fish?? Made halibut last night- and thought about whether or not the fillets needed to be rinsed.
All that Lysol spraying sounds way more unhealthy to me!
Chicken innards? Yum!
Gizzard, heart and neck are cooked along with the rest of the chicken if I’m making soup, or simmered in a pot with water if the chicken is being roasted.
Chicken livers are chopped and pan-fried with onions and lots of freshly ground black pepper… Delish!
Fish?
Rinse only if there are residual loose scales to be washed off. This is the case if I buy fish whole and have the fish department employee at the Asian grocery store gut and scale it for me.
I do rinse squid if I buy it whole and cut it up myself.
As for individually packaged fish fillets, I just drain the liquid from the package, remove the fillet and pat it dry.
I cooked lamb hind shanks yesterday. Just removed packaging and patted dry before browning and braising.
Corned beef, no rinsing; just place entire contents of package into the simmering pot of hot water.