cornish
Established Member
It is sometime since doing a food hygienne course but doesn't cooking something at 82+ degrees for 2 minutes or more destroy any bacteria? If so surely the average home oven - pre-heated to 190-200 degrees and cooked for 10 minutes - would surely make it safe?
Get yourself North of the border, then they don't.
you need to achieve a minimum of 85c internal temperature of meat produce to ensure that food is safe for human consumption. the rate that bacteria start to multiply is between 5 and 65 degrees. that's not to say that bacteria are killed off at 65c. they stop reproducing. and if it is for cold consumption, then once heated, it should be below 5c in under 4 hours.
there are plenty of labs up and down the country to test shelf lifes of everything we eat that are sold in supermarkets.
it's quite a blanket statement to suggest that 190-200c for 10 minutes will kill off bacteria.. and an ill thought out statement to say the least. the suggestion of a question mark tells me that you are rather unsure. if it was to with tv's or xbox'x or playstations then the results of bad advice are not life threatening.
the fact that you are dealing with micro-organisms multiplying at certain temperatures, you need to be sure.
sorry to pontificate, but there has been some bad advice given on the forum.