The most important thing when cooking meat is making sure you cook to the right temperature. Using a digital thermometer, like a Thermapen, and removing the guess work from cooking is a huge relief.
The majority of people are terrified of undercooked food, and rightly so, no one wants a medium rare chicken breast. Because of this we tend to over cook food and dry it out, especially with lean meats. Often you’ll cook a sausage and it will look uncooked simply because of the type/style/colour of the meat, but when you stab your Thermapen it shows that the sausage is actually 15-20 degrees past cooked.
Once you start to use a digital thermometer you will use it on all of your food, even things like frozen fish fingers and eggs to determine the foods done-ness. This has been game changing in both our outdoor and indoor kitchen cooking.
I can’t tell you how much it changed my food once i started using a Thermapen it was truely game changing. The accuracy that they have is incredible and so helpful to begin to learn how to make your meat juicy and safely cooked!
By using a digital thermometer, like a Thermapen, you will notice a difference in your meat cooks almost immediately.
Check below for a cheat sheet on your most common meat temps!
Happy cooking!
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