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Easy Weeknight Meal Recipes
Spring is busier than ever and you still need time to enjoy the weather. Try a quick weeknight meal.
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Doneness
The level or degree of cooking that has been completed for the prepartion of a food. Doneness is typically measured by temperature readings, visual inspections, color, or texture. As an example, in the food industry meat is often prepared to one of six levels of doneness: very rare, rare, medium rare, medium, medium well done, or very well done, each having a different level of color, temperature and texture. Well done is the term that may be used to identify cooking levels between medium well done and very well done.
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Doneness Glossary Term - Related Content
Guidelines for Proper Doneness
The proper doneness of foods cooked with rotisserie grilling is determined by a number of criteria depending on the type of food that will be cooked and the size and density of the food.
General Guidelines | Degree of Doneness | Meat Thermometers
General Guidelines
Because of growing concern that harmful bacteria may be present in the internal portions of meat, it is now recommended that whole lamb cuts be cooked to an internal temperature (after the resting period, if applicable) of not less than 145°F.
Checking Doneness
When checking doneness it can be accomplished in basically the same manner for whatever cooking method you are using. There are several methods that can be used, but some are more accurate than others.
The amount of time required to cook pasta to its proper doneness varies depending on its size, shape and thickness. Also, whether the pasta is fresh or dried greatly affects the amount of cooking time required.
Checking doneness is accomplished in basically the same manner regardless of the cooking method you are using. While some methods are more accurate than others, there are certain cuts for which some methods will not be suitable.
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