• @jaybone
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    1010 hours ago

    Can you actually cook chicken medium rare?

    Like when you go to a restaurant, if you order a steak they will ask you how you want it cooked. They don’t ask you how you want your chicken cooked. They just cook it.

    • @makyo
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      129 hours ago

      Nope, for whatever structural reason, the harmful stuff can penetrate chicken but not beef. Chicken has to be cooked through.

      • @RememberTheApollo_
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        67 hours ago

        It’s how chicken is processed. Also, yeah it can do the same to beef, especially now that they are using machines to tenderize and dye the beef before it reaches the customer.

        Things like steak tartare are cured with salt and very carefully handled. The risk of illness is still there, just greatly reduced thanks to careful prep.

    • @IMALlama
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      17 hours ago

      Yes you can, but you’re not going to be able to cook to order.

      It’s all about the meat’s internal temperature and the amount of time it’s kept at that temperature. If the meat could reach 165° F instantly it would kill everything. If you hold it at 120° F for two hours you kill nearly everything.

      https://www.canr.msu.edu/smprv/uploads/files/RTE_Poultry_Tables1.pdf

      • Decoy321M
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        4 hours ago

        If you hold it at 120° F for two hours you kill nearly everything

        Which is distinctly different from everything. And the consequences of this literally affect your health. It’s the reason there’s a hard rule about the temperature. It’s for safety.

        • @IMALlama
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          118 minutes ago

          I am amused at the up and downvotes on your comment. Have an up vote from me :)

          A 7.0 log10 lethality means that a process has reduced the number of harmful bacteria, like Salmonella, by a factor of 10 million, effectively killing 99.99999% of them

          This is the same way they measure the time duration you need to hold poultry at 165°F for.

          Here’s a fun thought experiment: egg whites collegiate (ie are considered cooked) at 150° F. To reach 7.0 log10 levels of salmonella killing you would have to either have to hold your eggs at this temperature for 72 seconds or cook them to a higher temperature and hold them there less long. I don’t know about you, but I like over easy eggs. The center of the yolk gets no where near 150.