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Do You Wash Raw Chicken Before Cooking It? Stop & Read This First

If you’ve been washing raw chicken before cooking it, you’ve been doing it wrong! Here’s how. 

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Washing things gets rid of most bacteria, or so you thought. Turns out we’ve been doing it all wrong. A recent report shows that we need to stop washing raw chicken ASAP. For decades our mothers and grandmothers have been washing raw chicken and then cooking it. Little did we know, that washing raw chicken will spread a host of bacteria and cause various food borne illnesses.

Over 70 percent of the population in the country is non-vegetarian which means that over 93 crore people in India are meat eaters and to imagine that most of these people are prone to food borne illnesses and why? Because they wash their meat before cooking it.

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