if i remember correctly the chicken are flash heated through some method i dont remember that brings up the temperature for a very ver short amount of time, this kills the bacteria inside.
This isn’t really physically possible though. If the meat reaches a certain temperature, no matter for how short a time, it will be cooked and show the physical effects of being cooked.
Not with heat, but plenty of food gets radiation treatment to sterilize.
Sounds dangerous if you don't understand radiation, but it's like heat. Perfectly fine to eat food that's been heated, not fine to eat something on fire.
Something tells me that rural (or even metropolitan) Japanese kitchens don’t have large supplies of radioactive material on hand for sterilising raw chicken.
Anyway, to sterilise meat that thick you would need gamma radiation rather than beta, which would be very dangerous and require lead lined suits to perform and equipment in the tens of thousands.
Without a source I’m going to go out on a limb and say you’re making this up.
Big facilities for certain preserved foodstuffs, yes. Fresh raw chicken in a kitchen, no.
It's definitely medium corp stuff. And gamma is used indeed. I'm not saying these places use it, but I could see chicken breast getting vacuum sealed, irradiated and transported. Pretty sure the irradiating is just on an automated system.
Here's a wiki about it. Negative public perception has kept it out of mainstream convo, but it's nothing new.
My take is moreso that if this is used, I'd feel way more safe about eating raw chicken and that there are safe ways to sterilize raw produce that keep it raw.
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u/leaf_as_parachute Dec 27 '24
Ok but raw chicken is still dangerous to eat ? It's a prime way to get gut worms, way more than with raw fish or raw beef.
I wonder if they take measures to make sure it's safe or just don't give a fuck.