[pf] cooking temperatures for various foods?

· We used to have a meat thermometer but I can't find it now.

· Sharp point (containing the sensor) at the bottom of a shaft, with a dial
at the top.

· The scale, from memory, had both degrees and types of meat. All the
"cooked" temperatures were below the boiling point of water (212 F, 100 C).

· Seeing one for the first time was an eye-opener to me, I had no idea that
things cooked at less than 100 deg. C.

· A little later I learned about the inability to cook even eggs (the
lowest temperature, from memory) if you were higher up a mountain than a
certain level, since the atmosphere no longer pressed down on the top of
the water hard enough to keep the water liquid until it was hot enough to
cook - it vaporised too easily up there.

· Does anyone have a list of meat and egg cooking temperatures? Either in
deg. F or C.

· AFAIK potatoes need higher temperatures than meat, and beans the full
boiling-point-of-water temperature. Better: a pressure-cooker (that's what
they have to use up a mountain).

· (Is this arcane "Magic Academy" stuff, now-a-days?)

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David.
David MacClement [davd @ ihug.co.nz] (remove spaces)
http://www.geocities.com/davd.geo/index.html#top
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