What’s on the Doneness Temperatures poster
A 8-row table: Food · Target · Note.
Pull 2–3°C below target: temperature keeps climbing while it rests.
- Beef, rare — 52°C / 125°F — Whole cuts only
- Beef, medium — 60°C / 140°F —
- Beef, well done — 71°C / 160°F —
- Minced meat — 71°C / 160°F — Safe minimum
- Pork — 63°C / 145°F — Then rest 3 min
- Chicken & turkey — 74°C / 165°F — Safe minimum
- Fish — 63°C / 145°F — Or until it flakes
- Leftovers, reheated — 74°C / 165°F — All the way through
Rest meat off the heat for a third of its cooking time. Slicing early loses the juice onto the board.
Questions about the Doneness Temperatures poster
- What’s on the Doneness Temperatures poster?
- A 8-row table: Food · Target · Note. Pull 2–3°C below target: temperature keeps climbing while it rests. Beef, rare — 52°C / 125°F — Whole cuts only; Beef, medium — 60°C / 140°F —; Beef, well done — 71°C / 160°F —; Minced meat — 71°C / 160°F — Safe minimum; Pork — 63°C / 145°F — Then rest 3 min; Chicken & turkey — 74°C / 165°F — Safe minimum; Fish — 63°C / 145°F — Or until it flakes; Leftovers, reheated — 74°C / 165°F — All the way through. Rest meat off the heat for a third of its cooking time. Slicing early loses the juice onto the board.
- Who is the Doneness Temperatures poster for?
- Doneness Temperatures belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning technique can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Doneness Temperatures poster?
- Use a probe in the thickest part, away from bone. Colour is not a reliable indicator. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Doneness Temperatures belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Doneness Temperatures?
- Batch Cooking, Blanching and Braising sit alongside Doneness Temperatures in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Batch CookingBlanchingBraising
- Is the Doneness Temperatures poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Doneness Temperatures downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kitchen section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Doneness Temperatures poster print at?
- Doneness Temperatures is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Doneness Temperatures loses nothing.Printing guide
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