raw chicken
Needs thorough cooking
Raw chicken is poultry meat that hasn't been cooked—pink, soft, and potentially harboring harmful bacteria like salmonella.
The phrase appears most often in food safety contexts: Always wash your hands after handling raw chicken.
Figuratively, something compared to raw chicken suggests unpleasant texture or dangerous neglect: The proposal sat there like raw chicken on a summer counter.
- poultryBirds raised for food
- salmonellaFoodborne bacterial illness
- food poisoningSickness from contaminated eating
- pinkPale red hue
- slimyWet, slippery, unpleasant
marinade · thaw · refrigerator · plastic wrap · breading · meal prep · cutlet · drumstick · breast · thigh · skin · bone · bloody · cold · rubbery · bacteria · cross contamination · contamination
- cooking mistakesburnt toast, burned food, undercooked, burnt popcorn, overcooked
- food safetyfood safety, food hygiene, food handling, food poisoning, contamination
- meatsbeef, pork, ham, mutton, lamb
- food gone badspoiled milk, moldy bread, rancid butter, sour milk, curdled milk
- groceriesfruits, grocery store, melons, supermarket, watermelon
raw chickenroasted chicken
Oven-cooked poultry dish
grilled chicken · baked chicken · fried chicken · rotisserie chicken · smoked chicken
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