Is This Chicken Fully Cooked?!

Question: Is This Chicken Fully Cooked?

I recently baked a whole chicken in the oven. I baked it for 1.75 hours at 350o F. When I took it out I probed the chicken in several areas throughout the entire chicken including the thicker areas. There wasn't a single spot where the temperature was less than 180o F. As I was removing the meat I noticed that the bones, or something other than the meat, close to the breasts were red. The meat in the area looked fully cooked. What was the redness from? Was the chicken not fully cooked or was it from something else? I was sure to check the temperatures and have been eating the chicken with no ill effect.

Thanks.

Answers:

Yes, the chicken is fully cooked. The internal temperature of chicken when cooked all the way is 165 degrees, so you may have actually overcooked the chicken causing it to be dry. As far as the redness you found in the chicken, it sounds like it was a prominent blood vessel, its rare that you don't find redness in chicken when its fully cooked. So don't worry, keep cooking :)

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Chicken is considered safe if the minimum internal temperature is at or above 165° and maintains that for at least 15 seconds.

Meat that contacts the bones often looks reddish, reddish-brown like that. It's not a problem, as you've discovered.

Yes it was. Chicken is fully cooked at 165.

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