On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 23:15:43 GMT, SPOONS wrote:

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> Hi all,
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> The other day I had a friend over for dinner and as I was getting the
> boneless skinless chicken out of it's packaging she says to me..."Aren't you
> going to rinse that???" I said "No, I only do that if I see some blood on
> it." Then she went on to say that when she cooks with chicken she always
> rinses it and then sprinkles a lot of salt on it and leaves it on for awhile
> then when she's ready to cook it she rinses off all of the salt. She says
> she does this because it cleans the chicken. I think it's silly. Am I
> wrong?
>
> Does anyone else do this? Is she wasting her time or does it do anything?
>
> Take care,
> SPOONS ....My photo food log http://www.fotolog.net/giggles

Much like Koshering meat. It probably does clean it to some extent, I
normally rinse chicken, but I wouldn't bother with the salt. Rinsing it
just takes a a few seconds and who knows what happens to it in a processing
plant.

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JakeInHartsel

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