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where is the link hard to digest
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That sounds right.
The argument (which you'd have to look up, for the detail.. ) is that there's a natural barrier/ antibacterial coating on the egg which protects it. If you wash that off you make the egg shell porous to pathogens, etc, so you'd have to replace with something synthetic.
The temperature of the wash water has to be right too or bugs will pass into the egg, so they clean the eggs dry.
It's a balance thing - we vaccinate almost all commercial birds and the overall result is that there isn't a problem to solve.
It's a different philosophy in the USA, their chicken processing is different too. They let theirs get very dirty, then wash them in chlorine, and we don't. Hence we have instructions not to wash raw chicken, just cook it properly.
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The instruction to not wash raw chicken is mainly to stop the spread of bacteria round the kitchen.
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Sure - in the US they wouldn't say that, because they washed their chicken in chlorine. Our lot say just cook it and you'll be fine. Both practices seem to more or less work ok, take your pick.
Where the link as this surely can't be true.
We worked for a lady who supplied
Free range eggs to Waitrose
they would do spot checks
in one such check she was told that she could not have her dog(s)
Running around ( she did not live on the site) as they could chase / stress out the chickens ?
Free range eggs to Waitrose
they would do spot checks
in one such check she was told that she could not have her dog(s)
Running around ( she did not live on the site) as they could chase / stress out the chickens ?
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On a similar theme, some manufacturers are having to re label items that contain sunflower oil, they're having to use rapeseed oil instead due to shortages of sunflower oil caused by the war in Ukraine.
It's like mushrooms, you cant wash them either innit
Still having problems with comprehension, Hummy? He said his mate who works for an egg farm told him. If you have any mates, do they 'put up links' for things they tell you?
I know that's because they absorb water like a sponge. You are supposed to wipe any compost off of them with a piece of kitchen roll.
No that's not true m8, they turn in to gremlims if you get them wet
Yeah but everybody already knows that 'fact'.No that's not true m8, they turn in to gremlims if you get them wet
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Try washing mushrooms then frying them.
Yuk.
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