How to Best Read the Temperature for Different Types of Meat
Depending on the type of meat you’re cooking, there are different methods for the best way to take its temperature.
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Would you mind producing a longer, hands on, slower paced version for the paywall site at least? Dan’s new youtube segments are the hardest to follow or they recycle content thats been explained in other videos (salmon, salting)
You could have mentioned that if some ovens come with built-in thermometers, you need to take care to NOT leave any metal exposed or it will cook the meat around the probe (like a baking nail) and give in-accurate readings.
I have no problem with temping anything, except the dang poultry thigh! When I insert the thermometer away from the dang bone and in between the dang drumstick and the dang breast, I can either hit a pocket of air (there's a gap there) or get a different dang temp reading for every dang poke! Forty-something years of cooking dang birds, and I can't get it right! Dang it! Btw, I have the ATK top recommended thermometer, so it's all on me. Arrrgh!
Show is don't tell us!!!! Your better then this Dan
Super useful video! I was trying to check the temperature of roast chicken recently, wish I had seen this video!
This was great. Illustrations that made sense.
Thanks
Diagrams in upper corner too small even on a big screen so have no idea how to do most of the temp tests
The reason why I don't like these videos is that you are only talking to us and not showing us anything. show us how to take the temperature of the meat. these videos are always that way — We don't need a video if you're just talking to us about cooking techniques. Showing us is priceless in my opinion.
Thanks WikiHow.
Useful information shown in an unuseful way. This is a video, not a podcast. Why are we looking at Dan wave his hands instead of video showing what he is describing? This is below your usual standards.
That is a nice tip for checking the temperature of the meat.
Needs actual example footage
I use both instant read and infrared thermometers. Both have their uses.
I'm 64 and have never owned a cooking thermometer, everyone is still healthy and alive!
Dare one suggest America'sTest Kitchen focus on health rather than taste and simply not cook meat…. (and no, this is based on objective evidence-based Whole Food Plant Based research, not the guilt based intolerant authoritarian Leslie Cross school of animal rights ideology oft called veganism)…
Love you, Dan. I've got your books, but your company's YouTube philosophy is pretty lame. BonAppetite also started with tiny verbal non-demos like this one too but they learned.
You guys have the opposite problem, having regressed from length articles to these minute long cuisine-barks.
Will the bone give you a higher or lower temperature?
Can you do a demo?
Dan, publish a chart. Put it in your app, or on your website. I need a reference to go back to.
Look if u suck at cooking….cook it until u think it's done….then cook it some more, overdone is better than having worms or food poisoning