I bit into raw chicken?

Well, raw chicken is about as dangerous a thing to eat as can be. As long as you didn’t actually swallow anything you should be okay. But, it is possible you might get a bit of a stomach upset – not likely, but possible. If you do start to get queasy or nauseous, take some Pepto Bismol. For the future, know that undercooked or uncooked chicken can be deadly.

NOTE: I am not being overdramatic. I have trained in professional kitchens and the one thing they pound into your head about is chicken not properly cooked, that it can kill. Even getting raw chicken juice on your hand and not washing the hands you can contaminate surfaces and utensils with dangerous bacteria. Any person who has any kind of food prep training or knowledge knows this well. The odds of it happening are low, and as you bit into it and realized, you stopped, so your exposure was minimal. As I said, you should be okay – but in the event you get an upset stomach you can help yourself with Pepto Bismol. It is not necessarily the Salmonella, it is the fact that the chicken was cooked at low temperature and has had a chance for bacteria to build up.

Here’s from the USDA:

Foodborne Organisms Associated with Chicken

As on any perishable meat, fish or poultry, bacteria can be found on raw or undercooked chicken. They multiply rapidly at temperatures between 40 °F and 140 °F (out of refrigeration and before thorough cooking occurs). Freezing doesn’t kill bacteria but they are destroyed by thorough cooking.

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has a zero tolerance for bacteria in cooked and ready-to-eat products, such as chicken franks or lunch meat, that can be eaten without further cooking.

Most foodborne illness outbreaks are a result of contamination from food handlers. Sanitary food handling and proper cooking and refrigeration should prevent foodborne illnesses.

Bacteria must be consumed on food to cause foodborne illness. They cannot enter the body through a skin cut. However, raw poultry must be handled carefully to prevent cross-contamination. This can occur if raw poultry or its juices contact cooked food or foods that will be eaten raw such as salad. An example of this is chopping tomatoes on an unwashed cutting board just after cutting raw chicken on it.

Following are some bacteria associated with chicken:

Salmonella Enteritidis may be found in the intestinal tracts of livestock, poultry, dogs, cats and other warm-blooded animals. This strain is only one of about 2,000 kinds of Salmonella bacteria; it is often associated with poultry and shell eggs.

Staphylococcus aureus can be carried on human hands, in nasal passages, or in throats. The bacteria are found in foods made by hand and improperly refrigerated, such as chicken salad.

Campylobacter jejuni is one of the most common causes of diarrheal illness in humans. Preventing cross-contamination and using proper cooking methods reduces infection by this bacterium.

Listeria monocytogenes was recognized as causing human foodborne illness in 1981. It is destroyed by cooking, but a cooked product can be contaminated by poor personal hygiene. Observe “keep refrigerated” and “use-by” dates on labels.

As I understand it, the danger connected with raw chicken is the possibility of contamination by salmonella bacteria. High temperatures kill the bacteria, but traces are sometimes found on kitchen counters where the raw chicken was cut up, or re-using utensils that were used on the raw meat, etc.

Not all chickens are infected with bacteria, just as not all hamburger meat is contaminated with e coli. It seems highly unlikely that your single bite would expose you to any contaminants in the chicken. If so, it would be a very light exposure and you might not have any symptoms at all. The FDA estimates that the average American experiences 2 bouts of food poisoning each year, which most people attribute to “stomach flu”. Symptoms are typically stomach pain, nausea and diarrhea. The important thing is to keep hydrated; water is best. Eat a bland diet, no dairy products.

NOTE: I am not a doctor! I am just passing along the information I have gathered as a senior citizen.

Best of luck to you! Stuart

Whether you bit any meat off the chicken or whether you swallowed it or not is irrelevant. If a piece of chicken is contaminated with salmonella, you can get infected merely by LICKING the chicken, or even by touching it and then licking your finger, or even by putting it on a counter or cutting board and then putting some other food item in the same spot!

Most chicken is NOT contaminated by salmonella, but if it is one of the few, you could get enough bacteria to make you sick. That’s why the USDA makes such a big deal of “cross contamination”.

Kateg is absolutely right.

Well, the incidence of food poisoning from chicken is low, but it is still out there. Yes, if the bite of chicken were loaded with germs you could technically get food poisoning even though you spit it out, but less of a chance than if you swallow it. When you get food poisoning, you will know it. Frequent loose stools, throwing up, feeling horrible, you will know. there are more symptoms, and more details on how you know it is salmonella, this is the recipe department, I’m not going to gross these people out with medical stuff. And it takes awhile for any germ to incubate and breed in out bodies enough to make us sick. so if you are sick to your stomach a few hours after supper, not the salmonella, yet. It just depends how many germs were in the bite. and if your immune system is good. So, later when you feel better, make sure you get plenty of fluids, if you don’t already, take a daily multivitamin, eat a really good balanced diet and increase your chance of not getting food poisoning, and if you do, of healing from it better.

Kateg is being a bit over dramatic.

Not all raw chicken has deadly bacteria or even bacteria to make you sick.

There is hardly any meat on wings so the meat must have gotten a decent heat exposure.

I’m sure you will be fine.

Im sure you will be fine. As long as you didnt swallow a big chunk im sure nothing bad woould happen. You can get salmonella from uncooked chicken but i highly doubt you contracted anything, especially since you didnt swallow it. I wouldnt worry at all if it was me.

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Why the panic?????

You can only get food poisoning from something you actually eat.

Only a very small fraction of the chicken out there is even contaminated,

let alone rotten to toxic levels.

1. if you’re allergic, anaphylactic shock

2. if you sunk your teeth in deep enough, you could grow feathers

3. raw chicken juice in your throat could result in irreversible clucking

4. immediate death

5. not so immediate death

6. absolutely nothing (but this is the least likely of all)