Comment on Do you toss food once the date on the label has passed? Experts say that's often a waste

• evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You dont need to, but it does have an effect on the texture of the final dish. Typically, it’s done with sliced meat, not whole cuts.

  Most of the people telling you not to wash chicken are sticking a whole chicken under a running faucet and splashing everywhere, which is bad. The right way to do it is just put your cut chicken into a bowl, add some water, and swirl it around with your hand. Then you can drain off the water and add your marinade or whatever. There’s effectively no difference from that and just washing dishes that have touched raw chicken.

  You end up with a much more tender final product.

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  • Drusas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I'm skeptical that water alone would tenderize chicken, but I'll have to give it a try to find out.

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    • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Kenji Lopez-Alt discusses it in his video here. There’s a little bit more detail in his book The Wok.

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGP36xcUnOs

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