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Yes but this is perhaps overly pedantic. No one would legitimately try to cook a chicken by keeping it at room temperature forever, you still want cooked meat
by zamfi 5y ago
Yes but this is perhaps overly pedantic.
No one would legitimately try to cook a chicken by keeping it at room temperature forever, you still want cooked meat — it’s just that 165 overcooks it. For breast meat, you typically want 150, and you can hold it there for enough to kill salmonella.
- OJFord 5y agoYes I'm only taking it to the limit of zero heating and infinite time to make the point obvious, but what's room temperature (I don't know Fahrenheit) 90F or something - call it that, point is that just the act of heating it at all, doesn't magically kill (e.g.) salmonella. Wikipedia lists 131F for 90min as being sufficient - that doesn't necessarily mean it's possible at all at 120F, however long you leave it.