Actually super useful if you don’t like dry chicken but don’t want people getting sick. Even roasting in the oven. Better for beef honestly but, point still stands.
It’s not helpful because this is the internal temperature requirement. You can’t just stick a chicken in the oven at 135 for an hour and a half and have it be safe to eat. The clock doesn’t start until the internal temperature hits 135.
Well, one could probably deduce that a lower internal temperature than the instant point is sufficient to cook chicken, and use that in combination with a thermometer when cooking chicken.
In fact, that’s what I’ve done after learning this, bringing my chicken breasts only up to ~68 C (~155 F), resulting in a vastly more enjoyable chicken breast.
So I’d argue the opposite - this is very helpful for real world cooking.
Yes it’s a lot more helpful to know that if my bird sits on the grill at 155 for a minute - I can eat it. Is way more useful that I need to crank it, and dry it out to get to a mythical 165.
I’ve had the jump from 160 to 165 take 3 minutes for whatever reason. It was already done in 30 seconds! That’s nice to know
Not very helpful for real world cooking.
Actually super useful if you don’t like dry chicken but don’t want people getting sick. Even roasting in the oven. Better for beef honestly but, point still stands.
It’s not helpful because this is the internal temperature requirement. You can’t just stick a chicken in the oven at 135 for an hour and a half and have it be safe to eat. The clock doesn’t start until the internal temperature hits 135.
That is what a meat thermometer is for
Well, one could probably deduce that a lower internal temperature than the instant point is sufficient to cook chicken, and use that in combination with a thermometer when cooking chicken.
In fact, that’s what I’ve done after learning this, bringing my chicken breasts only up to ~68 C (~155 F), resulting in a vastly more enjoyable chicken breast.
So I’d argue the opposite - this is very helpful for real world cooking.
Yes it’s a lot more helpful to know that if my bird sits on the grill at 155 for a minute - I can eat it. Is way more useful that I need to crank it, and dry it out to get to a mythical 165.
I’ve had the jump from 160 to 165 take 3 minutes for whatever reason. It was already done in 30 seconds! That’s nice to know
You can do it simply with a Sous Vide. However chicken cooked at low temp, while safe to eat, is texturally unappealing.
I can confirm this. I tried to do a low and slow with chicken breast once and it was not good.
I still prefer mine at about 150 F, but anything much below that feels like eating warm raw chicken.
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I use these curves for real world cooking constantly, both sous vide and other methods. Why wouldn’t this be useful for real world cooking?
Maybe more useful for sous vide. Not a big fan of putting food in hot bags of plastic, though.
It’s called sous vide