Should you use a meat thermometer every time you cook meat?
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If you just started out cooking and you are cooking whole chickens or big meat joints, then it is easiest and safest to use a meat thermometer every time. After a while you will get more experience and learn other ways of determining whether the meat is done or not. You can use a metal skewer, for example, and stick it into the meat and then you can feel whether it is done or not. But that takes practice.
The internal temperature must always be according to the recipe if it specifies that. Especially with chicken you must make sure that it is cooked through as there may be a chance of salmonella otherwise. Raw chicken or raw chicken bones must be avoided.
The same really also goes for pork meat. It should be properly done. The only exception here would be beef and it's largely a matter of taste whether you want it done, medium or rare.
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