Thread 21593953

is it gay to use a food thermometer? im especially schizo when cooking chicken and using it in fear of it being undercooked inside.

no

>>21593953 (OP)
Yes. You may no longer visit this board, gay boy.

neck yourself unironically

>>21593953 (OP)
you should press your finger against the chicken and see if its cooked or not, some retard chinese thing is not reliable and your dumbass is gonna bite into chicken sashimi. you know what go ahead and use one i dont care if you get salmonella

>>21593972
>cook chicken once in your fucking lifetime
>huh, it's still raw, better let it cook for 10 more minutes
or
>huh, it's cooked now, i can cook it the same way next time

How fucking stupid are you people?

>>21593974
incredibly, but its funny you ask since you are here with me in the same thread and not visa versa

>>21593953 (OP)
Food thermometers are useful but get the kind that actually goes in the food, infrared thermometers are pointless for cooking unless you're using it for reading the temperature of the pan or something.

>>21593953 (OP)
>Measuring the temperature at the surface of the chicken will tell me if it's cooked inside
>I'm a stupid retard faggot

>>21593980
*farts extremely loudly*

>>21593988
ok based

>>21593953 (OP)
Yes. Twenty dicks right up your butthole the second you start using one. You'll cum like you never have in your life and realize all the times you came to women in the past were just a labor of delusion, and only now do you understand what it's like to orgasm out of actual sexual pleasure instead of mechanical obligation.

just take the vegan pill already.
There's a part of your subconscious that understands: if you need to cook a food to a very exact temperature to avoid from getting deathly sick, then you probably have no business eating it in the first place.

>>21593953 (OP)
Sometimes.
If you bake chicken for 30 minutes at 350 and find that it's not cold inside, I think you don't ever need to temp it again to know that it's going to cook thoroughly.
But, assume it somehow isn't cooked fully. Oh no, I guess you'll have to put it back in the oven and make a mental note to cook it for longer or hotter.

Temperature is irrelevant for nearly everything else. As long as it's too hot for you to touch, it's too hot for bacteria to grow, and everything else that would kill you can't be cooked off. You'll live.

>>21594118
This anon died of solanine poisoning from his raw potatoes shortly after making this post.

>>21593953 (OP)
>im especially schizo when cooking chicken and using it in fear of it being undercooked inside.
Why would you not just cut open the thickest part and see if it's cooked?

>>21594310
Lol

>>21593953 (OP)
It's more important if you're obsessed with tenderness
You absolutely need one if you ever want to get into smoking/slow cooking

>>21594310
>This anon died of solanine poisoning from his raw potatoes shortly after making this post.
funny meme but solanine is destroyed at 170C, so if that was a real problem, anybody who boiled potatoes (at 100C) would be getting poisoned.

Just don't eat the green ones.

>>21593984
this. when cooking meat you want to know it's core temperature, not the surface temperature

>>21593953 (OP)
I bought this before I started cooking just so I can measure the temperature of surfaces for fun.

>>21593953 (OP)
>is it gay to use a food thermometer?
What the fuck am I reading?
Use the goddamn thermometer retard

>>21593953 (OP)
>>21594743
I should add: don't use that stupid shit from the OP pic, they're worthless. Buy a thermapen or whatever has a probe

>>21594344
They have this sense of "pride" that cannot be challenged when it comes to cooking, if you undercook food it's considered this horrible faux pa and it means you're a failure.

The idea of learning is gone in these people's minds, if you fail once you deserve to be ridiculed and shamed for being a generic failure. If you don't cut into the chicken, look and see it's raw, then put it back in the oven to cook, you're normal, if you do, you're a failure.

If you don't have a dedicated air fryer with a temp setting, it can be useful to get fry temps correct. If you're making sugar products or tempering chocolate then it can be very useful. Most of the time you should be building the skill of telling temp and doneness based on the cooking process and knowing your tools.

>>21593953 (OP)
just cut the chicken open and touch it with your finger, if it burns you it's cooked if it doesn't it needs more time. works for me.

>>21593953 (OP)
Simply microwave your raw chicken cuts on high for 2 minutes before cooking them normally. Microwave ovens cook from the inside out.