Originally Posted By fredk
Originally Posted By chesseroo
[quote=Bridgman...A person CANNOT tell when a piece of meat hits a certain temp...

Correct, but they can tell how done a piece of meat is. grin

I have no trouble grilling tenderloin by feel. Now, if I changed to another cut of steak, I'd be in trouble.

When you cook something often enough (and with the same equipment), you can get a very good feel for how done it is by various sensory inputs.


How well done it is and its appx. interior temperature are pretty much the same thing, right? I was a restaurant whore for long enough to see chefs press an index finger or thumb on it, only, even though there was a thermometer clipped to their coat pocket. How they could keep track of different donenesses of so many things at once always impressed me.

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