I chose to believe this is performance art
Ew, the texture of raw chicken is vile.
Theoretically you can do medium rare chicken sous vide because the temperature is just high enough to kill the pathogen. Practically, why would you - it skeeves people out, and the texture is pretty bad
Plus well done sous vide chicken is just as juicy with non sketchy feeling texture.
I actually like to push it to just as a bit less cooked than I would be comfortable with a more traditional cooking way.
Haven’t done it in a while but from memory 66C/150F for just over an hour was the way I loved it (thighs).
But yeah raw chicken yuck
Theoretically you can do medium rare chicken sous vide because the temperature is just high enough to kill the pathogen.
Yep, you can find time-temperature charts for most meats, and that can lead to some interesting sous vide preparations that are perfectly safe.
I’ve tried it with chicken thighs. The texture wasn’t what I was used to, obviously, but melt-in-your-mouth chicken thighs, properly seasoned, were a success in my book.
But I like weird food.
I LOVE chicken like this. It purges my bowels every time, quite the #cleaneating technique.
I think generally you also need to butcher an animal fresh. Within hours. At least, I believe this to be the case with teak tartare for instance. Edit: steak*
I think you can relax more with beef. The important thing is mincing the meat fresh, too early and you have square kilometres exposed to bacteria but no you don’t need it freshly butchered.
Also the problem with chicken is that raw it’s fucking disgusting. Be it the smell, the texture or the flavour (I have eaten undercooked chicken by mistake, it’s vile).
Raw beef? Divine if you can get over the prejudices that some cultures have
Salmonella in chicken is generally a bigger risk than ecoli in beef, in part because we are exposed to it much less often. Ecoli is extremely common and ubiquitous so it actually takes a pretty big dose of it to make most people seriously ill. You’ve probably “had it” dozens of times, had a runny morning poo and didn’t think of it past that. Salmonella, on the other hand, is much more likely to induce painful cramps, vomiting and extended symptoms with a minor exposure.
