Why can we eat duck meat medium rare, treating it like red meat, but chicken, which is white meat, has to be fully cooked, even though both are types of birds?

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Why can we eat duck meat medium rare, treating it like red meat, but chicken, which is white meat, has to be fully cooked, even though both are types of birds?

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Answer 1

You actually can eat chicken medium rare, you just need to be careful how you cook it.

The high temperatures people tell you to bring meats like chicken or pork to are the temperatures which will quickly kill the bad germs, but lower temperatures will also kill those bad germs, it just takes longer.

The sous vide style of cooking can be used to get rare or medium rare chicken or pork safely, and they’re both delicious cooked that way.