The Most Common Cooking Mistakes We All Make Daily

You're Washing Your Poultry

Julia Child was an advocate for rinsing poultry, but modern science has proven her way wrong. Washing chicken doesn't pull the bacteria off of it necessarily. However, it does 100% spread that bacteria all around your kitchen through little water droplets. DO NOT rinse your poultry. 

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