It would be nice if it made sense, though. There’s not really time from when a kid gets hone from school (4 pm?) and when a parent gets home from work (6 pm?) for chicken to defrost in the refrigerator.
Stick it in the fridge yourself the day before. Stop asking your stupid children to do stuff and getting mad when they screw up. Remember how dumb you were at their age.
Some of us are too inept to think that far ahead so we do the warm water thing. I think all our salmonella poisoning incidents in the last ten years (one or two) have been from costco chicken that was too old.
As a note I’m in the arid California desert. The swamps of Florida might require additional caution.
Cold running water is actually thermodynamically better at moving the cold out of your food and it doesn’t par cook or put it in the danger zone for as long, it’s 1st world as fuck tho to defrost your shit in a trickle of running cold water tho.
Just don’t ask your kids to take the chicken out of freezer… just move to the fridge a night before and it’s gonna be perfect next afternoon. Slow defrosting keeps the most juice inside and doesn’t ruin the texture as much, so it’s the best option anyway.
I had a friend who when we wanted to swim on Sunday at his house and nobody was home, discovered there were no clean towels. He said we couldn’t wash some and therefore couldn’t swim because he “wasn’t allowed to use the laundry machine”. Not like an authoritarian thing, that he never learned how and had broken it before somehow.
If your teenager doesn’t know how to take a bag out of one box and put it in another box or scrub the night nut out of his own undershorts you’re fucking up.
I always just slap the frozen meat into a pan w/ no oil on a burner on max heat. The real life hack is that is doesn’t matter if you take the plastic wrap off, it tastes the same either way.
Keep tofu or jackfruit in hand. A few nights of tofu or jackfruit instead of chicken will either help them to never forget the chicken or help them to enjoy healthier foods. Either way it’s a parenting win.
Growing up in a vegetarian household, I never once had to remember to take the chicken out of the freezer when I got home from school. It was great.
If the ethical, environmental and health benefits aren’t enough to convince a family to keep a bag of dehydrated TVP on hand - It’s also so much cheaper!
To this day I love tofu, which is unfortunate because tofu does not love me. But just like lactose intolerant people and ice cream, it won’t stop me!
But you shouldn’t though, you shouldn’t allow meat to enter the danger zone (40 °F - 140 °F / 4 °C - 60 °C) while defrosting. The cold meat and warm water yields lukewarm water, and if you let it sit for an hour, that’s prime bacteria breeding grounds.
Run the meat over with some cold water and let it sit in a bowl filled with cold water for 30 minutes, and replace the water with new cold water every 30 minutes until defrosted.
The safest way to defrost meat though is in the refrigerator, throw it in there 24-48 hours before you plan on using it and you’re golden.
so do you people not cook your chicken? like i don’t give a fuck if it’s vaguely unsanitary, i’m gonna fucking cook it and that’s going to kill the bacteria.
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