"Omelet" > wrote in message
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> In article <HF7zi.11595$563.7357@trndny08>,
> "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> How do you cut it up without touching it?
> Lately, I've started wearing latex gloves to cut up poultry, but only
> because it helps me get a better grip on it.

With kitchen shears, usually. Or I will slip a plastic bag over my hand if
I have to but I try not to do that. Touching meat and poultry just skeeves
me out.
>
> I started using gloves to mix ground meats and sausages with recipes
> ages ago. I just don't like getting cold grease on my hands.

Me either. Eeeeeew.
>
>>
>> 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...
>
> I think that paranoia can be a mental illness when it comes to food
> sometimes. ;-)

Yep.