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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 31/10/2010 7:09 PM, wrote:
> On Oct 27, 7:20 pm, > wrote:
>> Mine is 170F.
>>
>> ****es me off. I'm sure that some knucklehead is trying to look out
>> for my safety. Who the heck wants the internal temp of a pot roast to
>> be anywhere near that? I could understand 150F, or even 155, but
>> F---. Instead I turn the oven on-off-on-off...
>>
>> --Bryan
>
> If you tried cooking a roast at 150 F it would literally take all day
> for the internal temperature to get that high. You'd also run the
> risk of food poisoning.

Run the risk? Isn't that assuming that it would be pretty well
guaranteed to be Tomaine City? There would be lots of time at the ideal
temperature to make it flourish and never hot enough to kill it.