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Home › Forums › Followups to Daily Quizzes › Daily Quiz for September 9, 2019
True or false? Cooking food to 160 degrees will kill most food-borne bacteria.
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I got it right--and also knew the qualifiers.
One thing that most people don't think about are the toxins, they don't understand toxins and bacteria are 2 different things.
That's one reason why I shudder every time I see a recommendation that a steak be allowed to sit out until it reaches room temperature before it is cooked. Kenji Lopez-Alt has written that this can take 3-4 hours for a thick steak.
I knew this and picked the wrong one.