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BIG NEWS ABOUT ELLIS IS
MAKING A GROWING NUMBER OF
PEOPLE SICK.
MOST PEOPLE ARE MAKING BIG
MISTAKES WHEN IT COMES TO
COOKING CHICKEN.
OUR IRON
CHEF MIKE LEARY IS
STANDING BY IN THE KITCHEN WITH
SOME SERIOUS DO'S AND DON'TS
ABOUT POULTRY PREPARATION.
IT IS DINNER TIME AND IF
YOU'RE HUNGRY LIKE I AM, MAYBE
YOU HAVE A HANKERING FOR SOME
CHICKEN.
YOU GRAB IT OUT OF THE
REFRIGERATOR AND MAYBE YOU BRING
IT OVER TO THE SINK TO START
WASHING IT UP.
I SHOULD TELL YOU THAT
UC DAVIS
RESEARCHERS ARE SAYING THAT IS
THE WORST MISTAKE YOU CAN EVER
MAKE.
HE WASHES HIS HANDS
THOROUGHLY FOR 30 SECONDS EVERY
TIME HE PREPARES POULTRY
WASH
HER HANDS AND WASH YOUR KNIFE.
BUT A
STUDY OF 120 PEOPLE IN
THEIR HOME FOUND THAT 65% DID
NOT WASH THEIR HANDS BEFORE
TOUCHING POULTRY.
HALF OF THEM WASH THEIR CHICKEN
INSTEAD.
THE WATER SPLATTERS
AND THERE
IS AN AEROSOL THAT IS CREATED
AND SALMONELLA OR ANY PATHOGEN
THAT COULD BE ON THAT CHICKEN
SPREADS ALL AROUND YOUR SINK.
A CUSTOM SHE ADMITS SHE HAS
BEEN DOING FOR DECADES.
WHEN YOU PREPARE CHICKEN, DO
YOU WASH IT?
ALWAYS.
WAX YOU ARE SPREADING THE
BACTERIA.
I WILL TAKE
YOU UP ON THAT A
NOT DO IT ANYMORE.
SHE IS NOT THE ONLY ONE.
EVEN THE AGRICULTURE SECRETARY
SAYS SHE FREQUENTLY WASHED HER
CHICKEN, TWO.
I KNEW WHEN I WAS GROWING UP,
IT WAS JUST SOMETHING WE DID.
PEOPLE UNDERCOOKED THEIR
CHICKEN.
40% OF THE PEOPLE UNDERCOOKED
THEIR CHICKEN.
THEY CAN EASILY GET SICK FROM
CHICKEN THAT IS NOT THOROUGHLY
COOKED.
WHEN YOU PULL THE CHICKEN
OUT, IT IS 165 DEGREES INTERNAL
TEMPERATURE AND YOU KNOW IT IS
PROPERLY COOKED.
LOOKING AT LIVE PICTURES NOW
SOME OF THE CHICKEN WE ARE
COOKING ON THE GRILL.
YOU WANT TO COOKED ON INSIDE AND
OUTSIDE.
MAKE SURE THAT REGISTERS 165
DEGREES AND THOROUGHLY COOKED
BOTH INSIDE AND OUT.
IT IS THE HEART OF BARBECUE
SEASON SO BON APPÉ***.
A
GREAT REMINDER.
IT LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE JUST
COOKING FOR YOURSELF.