‘I’d like my chicken rare, please’

[HarrietKettleWasHere]

AIBU that you don’t have ‘rare’ chicken?!

I cooked a chicken stroganoff for my mate earlier and as I went to brown off the thigh fillets my mate pipes up

‘can you leave mine rare please?’

I said ‘don’t worry I’m not going to overcook them!’

And age says ‘yeah but can you leave mine a bit pink?’

I told her she could get ill and she says she always does chicken like that and never has! And it’s no different to having a rare steak

Anyone else know anybody that has their food ‘weirdly’?

At uni my housemate used to love eating half defrosted bread.

To pp - chicken thighs should not be a little bit pink through being undercooked though, the meat is just a little more pink/brown. They should still be completely cooked!

Never eat at her house op

Brain transplant required here. Please do not go to her house for a meal!

@Mishappening, well said.

Slightly off topic but a few years ago was in a “trendy” chicken place and was served chicken that had blood running out - I called over the waiter and said - my chicken isn’t cooked... the waiter started to say something about “oh if you let me explain” and I just spoke over him to say “look there is blood running out of it” and he took it back... I’ve always kicked myself for not waiting out the explanation (wtf was he going to say!)

I've had campylobacter years ago, it can trigger ibs which was fun.

HighKettle I remember that episode. The family put raw chicken in a jar and let it fester for weeks before eating. They called it high meat.

Rare chicken is not a normal request, unless the person asking is after an unusually unpleasant dramatic weight loss.

Sorry HarrietKettle!

Japanese cuisine includes raw chicken sashimi. I imagine the entire chain between live chicken and plate is dealt with rather differently than in our culture. I’ve always wondered if I could try it. I suspect I’ve clocked up too many years of cultural bias in the opposite direction.

My stove, my rules. Enjoy your raw chicken elsewhere. If the friend truly couldn’t stomach it cooked, I’d change the meal plan altogether.

I even have trouble making tea for a certain friend of mine. She wants a teabag quickly dipped once and removed. Milk & sugar. Water remains water coloured. Bleurgh!

Of course, I live in a family where a piece of uncooked (hard) pasta is a chef’s treat. Seems to be genetic, even the tiny kids beg for one! So I’m not entitled to pull on judgey-pants.

I'd tell her she needs to cook it herself then, because she'd turn round and try to sue you if she got ill.

But why is it different to rare steak?

With a few exceptions, meat is virtually sterile (assuming that the animal is healthy). However, because of the way that meat is processed, it is usually contaminated by the contents of the animal's guts. How much of that infects chicken meat is usually unpredictable, so it's really not worth the risk. Beef is much less likely to be contaminated, so it needs to be only seared.

According to her, you don’t get ill if your stomach is used to it, and it’s quality meat. (It was from the naice butchers)

Albus- because raw beef doesn't carry many parasites, and rare beef- where the outside is cooked, kills any bacteria upon the surface - whereas chicken carries campylobactor, salmonella, E. coli etc

Op- your friend is nuts. On her own head be it when she makes herself ill, but I wouldn't feed her "rare" chicken and risk her sickness being from food id made

Yuk. Rare chicken is not a "thing." Unless she has a death wish.

ladydick yes! That was awful. ‘High meat’

It’s making me feel a little nauseous even thinking about eating rare chicken

I’m not a meat eating person but I know that that’s totally dangerous for you. Stop letting her cook chicken.

Never eat Chicken or pork under cooked - risk of salmonella from the former and trichinosis from the latter and death basically. These parasites need to be killed. The parasite from beef - ecoli lives on the exterior however so is killed by cooking on the edges.

Beef, lamb, liver, tuna etc is fine rare - love it in fact.

HarrietKettle does that mean MNetters will now be chowing down raw "naice Waitrose ham?" Maybe with a side order of mouldy cutted up pear and raw in the middle school bake sale lemon drizzle?

Wow, your friend is beyond stupid. AS others have said, don't eat in her house. I really hope she doesn't have children!

She's thick as fuck

68 degrees is the minimum with chicken, it will be one of those Darwinism stories....

Sounds like a sketch from Little Britain!

She’s not thick though (well not in other areas) she has a PHD. No children yet!!

Does she never watch any of the gazillion cooking shows on TV?
You see lots of meat cooked so still pink and bloody - in fact they often criticise if "overcooked" (not pink at all).

Never has any professional chef or food critic extolled the virtues of undercooked chicken.

If it was a thing they'd be all over it.