There were some reports that rinsing splashes bacteria around your kitchen. The advice: Never rinse poultry.
Makes some sense. Or would, if it were true. Reporting in Lucky Peach, Harold McGee looked into it and said they had the flimsiest research. They rinsed dyed meat and noted splatters of color in the kitchen but only when they were sloppy. McGee did more thorough testing. His finding: if you rinse like an animal in a torrent of water, you may splash bacteria around. But who does that?
Unfortunately, Lucky Peach never published online so the finding is not well known.
Go ahead and rinse gently, with the food in the bottom of the sink, the way you normally would.
Use antiseptic spray (1/2 tsp bleach in a quart of water) to clean up afterwards.
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