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? asked in Food & DrinkCooking & Recipes · 9 years ago

Food Safety and Chicken - Would Brining reduce contamination potential?

Per Men's health....Recent nationwide testing by Consumers Union, the advocacy group behind Consumer Reports, notes that of the 484 raw broilers examined, 42 percent were infected by Campylobacter jejuni, and 12 percent by Salmonella enterides.

My QUESTION:

Do you think BRINING (salt solution)the chicken will help minimize bacteria? Brining it will definitely help the chicken taste better and remain moist during the long cooking time.

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  • ?
    Lv 5
    9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Although salt was used to preserve meat in the good ol' days before refrigeration, brining with a solution that will make the chicken taste good won't do the job. Brining will only increase your chances of spreading campy and salmonella around to other food. To be safe have a cutting board that is for meat only and wipe up with a sanitizing wipe before putting other food out on the same counter.

    The bacteria noted will be completely destroyed by cooking your chicken to at least 160°F - check it with a meat thermometer. Wash your hands with soap and water after handling the chicken.

    Proper handling will give you a safe delicious meal.

    Source(s): www.fsis.usda.gov/Food_Safety_Education/Ask_Karen/index.asp 30 years in the meat business
  • 9 years ago

    Why do you think foods were smoked after brining or salt cured? this eliminates the bacteria or other pathogens from foods really well.

    and now the medical community is telling us to reduce our salt or sodium consumption? brining adds more salt than just cooking the food would. But it does eliminate a lot of the undesirable elements.

    With freezers and most people living near a grocery store we do not need to brine to preserve foods like they did before electricity. Freezing stops the action of any bacteria or pathogen until the food is defrosted. Cooking to a minimum of 160F internal temperature kills any bacteria or pathogen.

    I do not eat chicken, tukey or any other fowl! Brined or otherwise, I hated butchering the chicken day when growing up, so do not have chickens or turkeys. I do not buy poultry products to bring to the ranch. Only eggs!! And they are safe enough for me to haul for 2 hours in an ice chest! Hopefully they do not scramble on their own before I get home!

  • Norm
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Yes, brining will help. Salt-curing has been used for centuries as a way to store meat for longer periods when refrigeration was not available, and these people had a very low incidence of food poisoning. Just bear in mind that brining will help -- there's no guarantee it'll kill all the bacteria.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    simply by fact each and every of the smells intertwine while they prepare dinner and smell sturdy. it incredibly is not problematical to make foodstuff smell sturdy. it incredibly is greater sturdy to make foodstuff style sturdy. my friends are finished chinese language i believe doubt they got here from usa yet their house is a finished pig sty. theirs crap they convey abode from artwork throughout their front backyard and back backyard and it incredibly is all broken issues like tables, refrigerator, washing machines,and so on.. yet on occasion while they are cooking it smells incredibly sturdy. yet i notably doubt it tastes that sturdy. why? basically walk infront of their door step and you will understand why theirs craps everywhere alongside with ineffective vegetation/animals decaying like fish. Im confident they don't save at a actual food market the two however the community china city and all people in my state is acquainted with the china city isn;t very sturdy for groceries because it incredibly is been widespread to hold rats and it incredibly is not even that tasty. that being suggested do not enable the smells fool you.

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  • mark
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Yes, it will

    Salt will kill bacteria

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