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know-your-onions t1_jdc1hb1 wrote

Reply to comment by ChemicalRain5513 in Do insects have "meat" like other animals? I know that grubs, mealworms, etc. are eaten in some parts of the world, but if, for instance, beetles were the size of cows, could you butcher one and make beetle steak? by 9RFCat9

Because a lot of people like to eat steak rare.

But chicken carcasses for instance, are processed in a way that pretty much guarantees faecal contamination, which is where the salmonella risk comes from. But you can process chickens more carefully and eat the meat rare if you like - it would just make chicken much more expensive in the western world.

Cooking certainly isn’t a failsafe way to render any and all food safe to eat though. If it were, we wouldn’t need to worry about a bunch of other food safety stuff either.

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Teledildonic t1_jdcufl8 wrote

The structure of red meat makes it very difficult for bacteria to penetrate below the surface, which is why you can eat a steak rare as long as the outside gets cooked.

I dont believe poultry meat has the same "impenetrable" properties, so I don't think you can process it in a way that could be safe rare.

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