Is It Safe To Eat Chicken Sashimi?

[Renew Deal]

For the average American diner, the idea of eating raw chicken—with its seemingly inherent risk of salmonella poisoning—is a nightmarish prospect. But for chef Marc Murphy, chicken sashimi is the stuff (Twitter) dreams are made of.

Today, the celebrity chef took to the social media platform to proclaim his love for chicken sashimi, raising questions with other users over whether this mythical food actually exists—and, if it does, whether it's actually safe to eat.

Most often referred to as chicken sashimi or chicken tartare, raw chicken is served on many a menu, though you'd be hard-pressed to find it at any ol' neighborhood establishment. By last count, the specialty is offered at only a few select spots in the country—Ippuku in Berkeley, California, is perhaps the best known. It's more widely offered in Japan though, especially in hubs such as Osaka, Kyoto, and Tokyo.
But even there, people have been cautioned against taking a bite of undercooked chicken. In July, Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare warned that food poisoning is a serious risk of eating raw chicken, and asked restaurants to revaluate their preparation practices—requesting chicken meat be cooked to a 75-degree internal temperature before it's served—in order to make it safer to ingest.
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https://www.foodandwine.com/fwx/food/is-it-safe-to-eat-chicken-sashimi

[PJMcK]

1. Great idea!

Here’s another:

Don’t get your flu shot.

(Sarcasm, if needed)

[Renew Deal]

10. Funny, but there is a lot less risk in skipping flu shots

[Historic NY]

2. Raw poultry....is raw poultry. Did you ever hear of someone ordering it rare or showing some blood?

[pangaia]

3. In the 1970s, I used to hang out at a Japanese restaurant with whose owner

I had become close friends. He was a brilliant chef and his wife was an equally brilliant sauce maker.

He would make tori wasa and it became one of my favorite dishes. It was simply small slices of the tenderloin, quickly blanched and then dipped in a soy sauce/wasabi mix. That was it. BUT, he knew where to get chickens. And I think back then salmonella was not as much of an issue as later and today.

Now? In America? I would rather eat fugu.

[jpak]

4. Putin's menu

yup

[abqtommy]

5. A sensible person's survival instinct would reject the eating of any raw meat these days.

It's not even safe anymore to eat raw fruits and vegetables without encountering risks of e-coli and
other toxins.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. You go first.

[Me.]

7. Gee What Could Go Wrong

Raw chicken/Trump food inspectors

[FreepFryer]

8. Nope. Not safe. (n/t)

[Karadeniz]

9. Getting grossed out....

[UniteFightBack]

13. +1000

[hunter]

11. Sure, I'll just run it through the food irradiator.

A good blast of gamma rays will kill off all those nasty germs.

Every kitchen should have one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_irradiation

I used to work in a lab that had a cobalt-60 irradiation machine but we were admonished never to use it for frivolous things. There was no cheating because every use had to be logged -- on the machine itself, and in the paper log book next to it.

I'd have liked to irradiated my lunch when I got to work so it would keep without refrigeration. The break room refrigerator was scary.

[Leith]

12. uh, no

And this is coming from someone who lived in Japan (not in the military, I was a student and a bohemian) for 3 years. I've never heard of chicken sashimi, but I've had my share of seafood sashimi and steak tartare.

[Crabby Appleton]

14. Not safe for the chicken.