You have to wash it after the beating too, a good meat is a clean meat. That's my rule of thumbWash your meat. Beat your meat. Chew your meat. Mastication is essential.
Seeing is overrated.Just a friendly reminder not to tenderize your meat too much or you will go blind.
My MIL insists chicken should be washed for health reason. I won't wash chicken for health reasons, and I personally believe washing it dries it out the tiniest bit, but I haven't done any research to back that up.
My MIL is a nurse.
In order of family-friendly-ness and keeping things clean and SFW, I am changing the title of the thread. While things can be fun, we also want to maintain a level of civility and appropriateness above our brothers out East.
And no, nobody had reached out to me or requested the change, it was of my own decision.