"Tracy" > wrote in message ...
>I visited a friend this past weekend and we cooked together. I always
>wash/rinse my chicken before cooking and she said she never does. I was
>shocked. She even said to me "why" and I was even more shocked. She said
>she never washes/rinses any meat products. I wash everything. I don't
>think she even washes the veggies. No wait, she did use a salad spinner
>for the greens.
>
> She also uses hot tap water for pasta- she says it's quicker to boil.
>
> But then I got curious so I googled and found this:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/22bowf
>
> Do you wash?

I don't wash and I am super careful about cross contamination. With food
allergies, you have to be. I generally only buy boneless, skinless chicken
breasts. If I have to cut them up, I use a paper plate on top of my cutting
board and I try not to touch the chicken with my hands. I don't wash meat
either.

Vegetables, I wash. No longer buy the bagged prewashed greens after the
e-coli scare.

But pasta in hot tap water? Eeeew, no. Maybe if I had an Insinkerator, but
I don't. I did that when I was much younger. But I didn't know then about
the chemicals that can come out in the hot water. But come to think of it,
we are washing dishes in hot water, so... Hmmm...