I've been a gourmet "Foodie" for decades and I can tell you that the debate about to wash or not wash a bird is about 50/50, one side saying yes wash it and the other side saying don't.

Personally, I can taste when a bird hasn't been washed and I don't like that taste, so, I wash the bird.

I'm also very good at bacteria control. I clean as I go, and every place raw bird has been, or even been washed, I spray down with a bleach spray.

Never been sick from bird and no, don't want that nasty film of slime that builds up before it gets to my house. Wash the bird, then bleach down your sink area. Four sprays, chooch choooch chooch chooch, then a little wipedown with the paper towel which goes into the trash. That's it.