Rinse cabbage or wash cabbage

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Before cooking, we have to wash vegetable, fish, meat ... But can we say we rinse them?

I surmise that according to the definition given by AHD -- "Rinse: To wash lightly with water" the usage is acceptable.

Right?

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Right On Dude!....but wait a sec...you rinse meat before you cook it? Is this a custom in China?

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I've heard of rinsing meat--especially poultry.

As to the larger question, I think you could rinse cabbage, but I'd want to wash--even scrub--potatoes, beets, carrots and other root vegetables.

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Of course we have to rinse meat, Panzade. Smile

Do you think the meat to which a butcher sold you is always clean?

Oh Noddy, I'd like to husk potatoes, beets, carrots and other root vegetables!

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Do you mean you rinse the meat or the butcher does?

Personally I rinse root vegetables and then peel them.

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Oristar--

I husk corn, but peel or pare root vegetables.

A husk is a sheaf of tough green leaves protecting the kernels (seeds) inside.

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My dear Ori, if you think washing meat is going to make it clean....I have some wonderful land to sell you here in the Everglades! :wink:

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Panzade--

If nothing else, rinsing the meat washes away bone fragments.

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Bone fragments? Sounds like grounds for a law-suit to me!! Laughing

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I'll take your word for it Noddy. Maybe it's cultural.

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fortune--

Do some reading on modern slaughterhouse techniques in America. Rinsing meat may be more ceremonial than functional (and of course one cannot rinse hamburger, the daily grind) but ceremony is important.

As for bits of bone, lamb and pork should always be rinsed--or scraped--to remove the little bits of gritty bone--unless, of course, you are fanatic about ingesting calcium.

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Uh, thanks Noddy. I think I'll leave American slaughter houses to Americans. Smile

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yeah...no need to rinse kangaroo meat

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Heh heh.

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Noddy said " of course one cannot rinse hamburger".
It goes without saying. Smile

But Noddy has reminded us of that there might be misunderstanding there. The meat I mentioned means "raw meat", not cooked meat. Or else, rinsing meat is ridiculous no doubt.

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Of course I pare carrot, potato... Just as Fortune does. I used "husk", that is because my dictionary told me "husk = pare". Very Happy

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oristar--

The editor of your dictionary either has not been near a kitchen for years or has never prepared a root vegetable.

Sorry to disillusion you--but if you can't stuff a mattress with a husk, you can't call it a husk.

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Well, with the water restrictions here I just don't rinse meat unless it's absolutely necessary. Water used to rinse vegetables can be used to water potted plants too.

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Dunno, I buy free-range meat and chicken. It's never needed rinsing. There are many traditions of 'rinsing' meats around the world. In Trinidad they often use lime juice for fish and poultry, which cleans off any 'smell' and has a mild marinating effect. It all depends on how good your meat is. Culturally, I think this is where the different rinsing traditions come from. oristar can probably confirm this for me, but in China, raw vegetables are rarely or never eaten. Is this still true?

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