Cook Chicken Safely with Meat Thermometers | The Meat Probe

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Published on December 18th, 2015 | by admin

How to Cook Chicken Safely

Now a good selection of chicken can be really popular at BBQs. You have to be particularly careful with chicken, as it can be difficult to know that is cooked thoroughly without using a thermometer. Chicken that has not been cooked properly is more likely to cause food poisoning than other meats used in BBQs such as beef, lamb, or pork. An experienced cook or BBQ host may be able to tell when other meats are cooked properly but that is not the case with chicken. That is why it is important to ensure that you buy and subsequently use good meat thermometers for chicken as quickly as you can. Once you have done so you have no excuse for not including chicken on the menu of every BBQ you host.

The following are examples of good chicken meat thermometers, which can ensure that the chicken you put on your BBQ or gas grill is cooked to perfection. Having a good chicken meat thermometer can make all the difference between worried about the safety of the chicken that you serve up and having complete confidence that you and your guests can eat all the chicken with complete confidence. There are many types to pick, all of which will be fine for ensuring the meat is cooked at the most effective temperature. Poultry should be cooked to 165° to be safe to eat according to the USDA.

The Kitchen Craft Meat Thermometer

This stainless steel thermometer has a movable dial that clearly displays the temperature of the poultry or other meat that you are cooking. The dial is clear, and its needle moves freely and quickly in response to changes in the temperature of the chicken. It has a long probe that can be used to test the temperature of meat pieces of different sizes, weights, and thickness. The Kitchen Craft meat thermometer is a good instrument for ensuring that all chicken and poultry you place on your BBQs is cooked at the optimum temperature.

The best prices on Amazon are around the $6 – $10 mark.

CDN Meat / Poultry thermometer

The CDN Meat / Poultry thermometer is designed to be ovenproof so that can leave it in the oven whilst the chicken is cooking should you want to do so, or if you forget to remove it. This thermometer is also fine for testing the temperature of chicken that you are cooking on your BBQ. Again this thermometer has a movable dial with a needle to show the exact temperature of the chicken. The probe is of adequate length to be used to take the temperature of all sizes of chicken pieces, or joints of other types of meat.

On Amazon this kind of thermometer will cost you somewhere in the range of $10 to $20.

The Digiflex LCD thermometer / probe

Unlike the other thermometers the Digiflex probe has an LCD display that gives very accurate temperature readings. Unlike a dial display the LCD display shows figures that cannot be misread. At a price in the region of $8 to $10 on Amazon the Digiflex is a high quality thermometer at a highly affordable price. This probe will quickly show you whether or not your piece of poultry or tray full of chicken is actually cooking nicely at its optimum temperature.

LUPO Digital thermometer

The LUPO is yet another digital probe that is a good chicken meat thermometer that you can use for BBQs or cooking in an oven. It looks similar to the Digiflex, and both types of thermometer are more than capable of confirming that chicken and other meats are being cooked at their optimum temperatures. The LUPO is slightly more expensive than the Digiflex yet it does not matter, which thermometer you buy, as both are easily fit for purpose.

The eKitch kitchen probe

Buying the eKitch probe is showing that you really want to make sure the chicken is really cooked to perfection. This thermometer looks and is a serious piece of kit for people that want to cook their meat at optimum temperatures and not take any chances at all. This is what a head chef of a renowned restaurant would want to use so it is great for cooking BBQs.

This thermometers were found within moments of doing a search on Amazon, there are literally hundreds of different probes to pick from, the majority of, which are good chicken meat thermometers. They will all mean you can make sure your chicken is a highlight of your BBQ.