Is this chicken cooked properly?

knithryn

My best test for whether a chicken is cooked or not is whether the meat falls off the bone. I like everything well cooked). I don't trust the 'juices run clear' business.
Providing is ended up thoroughly cooked so the meat was falling apart it will be fine. You just let is 'rest' for a while in the middle of the cooking.

Penelope_Penguin

Cheekythellis wrote: »

do you think it'll be ok to eat? Would you eat it? Silly question probably, but Im a novice with roasts! Thanks in advance x

I'd have eaten it, too AS this has fallen from the front page of OS, I'll add it to the existing thread on how to tell if chicken is cooked.

Penny. x

valk_scot

Sometimes even in the most wll cooked chicken you'll find streaks of cooked blood ie solid...near the bones and in the thick muscles etc. This is normal. It's only if the blood is still runny that it's not cooked. And the dark meat isn't called that for nothing...it will never cook white like the breast meat because the muscle structure is different.

If there's blood still liquid next to the carcase of a chicken after it's been cooked for three hours then it's possible that either the chicken wasn't defrosted correctly, or the oven temperature is wrong.