Making sure food is hot enough

To test if food has been properly cooked, check that it is steaming hot all the way through. This means that it is hot enough for steam to come out.

Cut open the food with a small knife so that you can check that it is steaming hot in the middle. Generally, if food is steaming hot in the middle, then it will be steaming hot all the way through. But if you're cooking a very large dish, you might need to check it in more than one place, because some parts of the dish may be less hot than others.

Some foods change colour when they are cooked. Looking at colour is especially useful for checking meat.

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