Temperature for chicken (any sort)

fixit_fiona

I recently got a temperature meter to make sure meat is cooked, I am still confused of how much temperature should it be for chicken tikka or chicken burgers. What should be the best internal temperature of cooked chicken tikka on skewers and what should I measure the temperature? Edit: here is a picture of them, the big problem I have is to know how to check temperature in one go. Having to insert the pin of temperature thing is very redundant.

Originally asked by localhost on Stack Exchange (cooking) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

The following information is all based on information from an article written by J. Kenji Lopez Alt on the Serious Eats website. All the information from his article was based on data from the USDA. https://www.seriouseats.com/how-to-take-the-temperature-of-your-turkey-video This is sort of a question of two parts. The temperature at which chicken is safe to eat, and the temperature at which it's most pleasurable to eat. I mention the later because in your original question, you didn't specify what type of chicken meat that your skewers are made of. Whilst breast meat and leg meat are both made safe to eat at the same temperature*, like many people, I find that the darker, fattier meat of...

Full answer by Hollis Hurlbut: https://cooking.stackexchange.com/a/128769 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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