How to calculate the cooking time?
When you cook a food in the oven (steak, roast, chicken, turkey, cake, etc.), the heat spreads from above and below. In this case, the distance the heat has to travel is half its thickness. The thermal diffusion law therefore becomes t = L2/4D where L is the total thickness of the food.
What temperature for chicken breast?
Simply insert the food thermometer into the thickest part of the chicken (for a whole chicken, this is the breast). Chicken is done when thermometer reads 180°F (82°C) for whole chicken or 165°F (74°C) for chicken pieces.
How to calculate the cooking time of meat?
Roast beef cooking time per kilo
Time per kilo allow: 15.5 min per pound or 500 g for blue cooking. Time per kilo allow: 18.5 min per pound or 500 g for rare cooking. Time per kilo allow: 22 to 25 min per pound or 500 g for medium-rare cooking.
Where to put the thermometer in the chicken?
Insert the thermometer into the thickest part of the thigh avoiding the bone. If the poultry is stuffed, also check the temperature in the center of the stuffing*.
How do you know if the chicken is cooked in the oven?
It’s very simple, just prick one side of the flank with the tip of a knife. If the juice that runs out is white or translucent, the chicken is cooked.
How to make chicken tender?
Milk allows the meat to relax and be less firm. Marinating poultry, or meats, is a very simple way to make them tastier, but also to tenderize them and keep them moist during cooking. This reduces or even eliminates any drying out during cooking.
What is the best cooking method for an oven?
Having a more homogeneous and faster cooking is the advantage of the fan-assisted convection oven. Thus the best mode of cooking for an oven is the mode of cooking by the use of a convection oven or pulsed heat oven.
How to place a dish in the oven?
Bake the dish for a few minutes in a preheated oven at 180°C (Th. 6) to melt the layer of cheese. Place the dish on the highest rack of the oven once it has melted and set the grill to maximum power. Watch the dish during this step because the cheese can quickly burn.
How to use an oven for the first time?
When using the oven for the first time, heat the empty oven to approximately 200°C for 1 hour, leave the oven door ajar to evacuate odors and smoke emanating from the oven enclosure.
How do you know if boiled chicken is cooked?
Although it won’t burn because it’s in a pot of water, overcooking your chicken will give it a rubbery consistency. You need to check your meat and see if it has reached 160 degrees, which is the ideal internal temperature of a perfectly boiled chicken.
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