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That video scares me! How do you do all of that, but hygienically? There's raw chicken all over the place, it touches towels, the towel touches his clothes, he
by conistonwater 10y ago
That video scares me! How do you do all of that, but hygienically? There's raw chicken all over the place, it touches towels, the towel touches his clothes, he touches bowls, even salt, with contaminated fingers, it's terrifying.
- tptacek 10y agoI don't touch raw chicken with cloth towels, because that skeeves me out (if Jacques Pepin does it, it's fine, but I don't want my cooking to be unpleasant to me personally). All I do is pat the chicken dry with a paper towel. I also skip the bit about removing the sinew from the tenderloin, because it mangles the tenderloin (which is fine if you're doing a galantine but less so if your kids want to eat a chicken tenderloin). On the other hand, and as someone who has spent a year or two getting his kids to get over the idea of touching raw meat: if you're grossed out by raw meat, you're handicapped if you want to do meat cookery. If you're going to eat meat --- and I eat a lot of meat --- I think an ethical bare minimum is not to allow yourself to be grossed out by it in its natural state. It's tough to get over skeeviness, but you can't cook well if you're skeeved out by your products, and I generally think you owe it to the universe to cook animals carefully. But I'm weird that way. So anyways I would just say try to get over any concern about touching raw chicken. Also when you get good at it you feel like The Predator. Try it on a goose when you get good. It's like turning a small person inside out. >:)