What is inside a clam?
Chef's answer
What's inside a clam? A retractable foot, a siphon for sucking up water, powerful muscles, and, sometimes, a pearl. And you thought oysters were fancy.
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1. Examining the Color and Texture. ... Cooked salmon color inside will be an opaque pinkish white color on the outside and translucent pink on the inside. If your fillet is still dark pink on the outside, it needs to cook more.
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A Little Pink Is OK: USDA Revises Cooking Temperature For Pork : The Two-Way The U.S. Department of Agriculture lowered the recommended cooking temperature of pork to 145 degrees Fahrenheit. That, it says, may leave some pork looking pink, but the meat is still safe to eat.
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Crab blood can turn blue/black soon after being cooked if not at a full boil long enough, first in body meat and follows veins down into leg meat. ... This happens rather quickly as crab don't "travel well" and need oxygen and cold (not freezing) temperatures between catching and cooking.
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According to the peerless Alan Davidson's North Atlantic Seafood, brown meat "consists mainly of the digestive gland or 'liver' and reproductive organs". So the website was right, up to a point. However, as every crab lover knows, the brown meat packs a far bigger flavour punch than the white.
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What is the black stuff inside lobster tail? The roe will be black and will appear gelatin-like if your lobster is under-cooked. It is edible but can also be rinsed out..
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A burger can be undercooked, and unsafe, but still be brown in the middle, Chapman says. "Or a burger can be well cooked, and safe, but still be pink or red. Color is determined by a lot of factors other temperature.
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Pink fish is a general term used to describe fish such as salmon and sea trout that have pink flesh (though not all salmon have pink flesh.) Some people also categorize some catfish and red snapper as a pink fish, as the flesh of some varieties turns pink when cooked.
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