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There's a big difference between cooking dark meat and white meat. Thighs and drumsticks can easily go higher and still be good, or even better. But breasts lac
by hypersoar 5y ago
There's a big difference between cooking dark meat and white meat. Thighs and drumsticks can easily go higher and still be good, or even better. But breasts lack the fat and connective tissue that breaks down in longer cooks, so they're a lot less forgiving.
- QuercusMax 5y agoCooking thighs / legs to less than 185 generally results in poor texture.
- Scramblejams 5y agoI'm happy with chicken thighs below that, but I pulled a turkey out at 165F internal temp once and it felt disturbingly underdone. Some of it was still pink. Safe, but not very enjoyable.
- rackjack 5y agoI personally wouldn't feel safe eating pink turkey.
- Scramblejams 5y agoHeh yeah, it was weird. We were all fine, but it was weird. A good reminder that appearance is an unreliable indicator of safety, even if in this case the appearance was a false positive.