"Omelet" > wrote in message
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> In article >, Tracy > wrote:
>
>> >> Do you wash?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -Tracy
>> >
>> > I always rinse meat off.
>> > For steaks and stuff, it rinses off bone dust/fragments that are gritty
>> > when eaten. For other stuff? Well, it just seems tidier and it was what
>> > mom taught me to do.
>> >
>> > It sure won't hurt it!
>>
>> I totally agree. What can it hurt? I wash everything and always keep
>> meat separate.
>
> If nothing else, it rinses dust off of veggies, and any clotted blood
> off of meat. I don't care for the texture of that stuff.
>
>>
>> The weird thing was that my friend didn't really have a reason why she
>> didn't bother. If she had come out and said the USDA says..blah blah
>> blah...but she didn't.
>>
>> She's not the best of cooks, but she at least tries.
>>
>> I don't remember my mother washing chicken. My husband used to work in
>> the food industry (college dining) and is vigilant about food safety.
>>
>> -Tracy
>
> Mom rinsed/washed all foods for various reasons.
>
> The only thing I don't rinse off is bagged greens, but I'm reconsidering
> that.
>
> I need a salad spinner.
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After the whole salmonella scare over the packaged/bagged spinach the bagged
greens seemed to be the worst offenders since most were imported from Mexico
from farms that used human waste as fertilizer..........if you didn't just
pick or kill it yourself and know what touched it or handled it before you,
wash it.
-ginny