/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12345301
Cook and store stuff properly.

>>12345301
it's fine baby, young chicken has a pink tint to it

>>12345303
What about ordering out? I feel I have an irrational fear

>>12345301
have sex

>>12345318
Well then don't order out? Or be sure to do so from reputable locations.

>>12345301
Get Jollibee© instead. Fried to perfection, well cooked and well seasoned inside.

>>12345301
First of all, stop being a faggot. Second, eat a rare steak with some runny eggs. When you wake up the next day and you're still alive, you'll see that there's nothing to worry about.

>>12345318
Usually you can see if meat is undercooked. But that's not what I would worry about with restaurant/delivery food anyway. Most cases of foodborne illness aren't caused by pathogens that were in the food to begin with, but ones that end up in the food while or after it's being prepared.

You could reheat it in the microwave, but you'd have to be very thorough if you really want all parts of it to get hot enough to actually kill bacteria and viruses. That won't work equally well for all dishes, though, and it can seriously mess with the texture and taste.

>>12345318
only faggots order out

>>12345301
Me too weirdly, so I overcook absolutely everything.

>>12345301
idk just deal with it bro lol

>>12345301
you are more likely to experience a food borne illness from a salad than any sort of meat, even if undercooked slightly. don't go ordering mid-rare chicken fingers but almost all cases of food borne illness are related to "ready to eat" foods, if your food has been cooked it is 99% clean, but the issue comes from improper storage in walk-ins and contamination from proteins with food that doesn't get cooked. the smidge of pink in your protein is a hell of a lot safer than the coleslaw that has been contaminated with raw chicken because someone (a mexican) didn't follow proper storage procedure.

It's the foods you don't cook that you should be worried about, even rare most proteins are inspected to a degree that worms are not likely, and the fact that they are cooked at all insures a certain level of safety.

t. line cook

>>12345333
This, the dangers from meat are so overblown, more people are dying from eating lettuce lmao

Cooking at home - buy a thermometer

Eating out - it's probably fine, if you can't trust it start cooking at home.

>>12345301
Realize that your stomach and GI tract is heartier than you think, and unless you have some sort of compromised immune system, a little bit of undercooked meat is totally fine

Like a previous anon said you’re more likely to get sick from salads

>>12345325
Based and jollypilled

>>12345584
this

a solid piece of meat that has been cooked is almost entirely sterile, even if it is pink inside. as long as its outside surface has been cooked thoroughly (pan seared, grilled, baked, boiled, whatever) it iwll be safe to eat.

this does not apply to ground meat however, that stuff should be cooked through all the way to be safe.

>>12345318
>>>12345303
>What about ordering out? I feel I have an irrational fear
No, you don't. It's based in reality most of the time, it's just that everyone else knows the risk but proceeds anyway to live their life to the fullest. Get vaccinated for Hep A and viral pneumonia, flu vaccine early and yearly. Wash hands before dining out, and sanitize once seated (after touching your chair), with pocket wipe or alcohol. Use your common sense to make better food choices, but don't eschew going out.

Minimize poor restaurant risk with some assessments of the establishments you go to. Here are some general tips. No buffet whatsoever that isn't a major brunch affair where items are plated by station cooks (customers touch handles with unclean hands). Check health department/local news/inspection info to understand who doesn't have an A grade now or in the past history. Generally, you'll see ethnic restaurants pull a bad grade from the cultural lack of hygiene, or profit over customer concern, in poverty origin nations, I guess.
Do go to restaurants with open kitchens for all to see, food made to order, new grand opening status wanting to please customers, more expensive than average prices (vs close profit margin), and bigger nicer chains with better equipment for food safety and that have training in place, such as hotels that do big banquets.

>>12347233
Also, visit the restroom. Does it suck with the cheapest faucet that forces you to touch the sink to rinse your hands? Dirty floor and corners? No paper towels? Smelly? No trashbasket right by the door handle exit? If they don't care for it, or it wasn't carefully designed to prevent contamination through visiting...all that equals never returning to that restaurant.