Chicken thigh
Kycklinglår
78°CRest 5 min
Cook to this all the way through
Dark meat improves past the safety minimum.
Safe minimum 72°CLivsmedelsverket
On the grill
Unlike breast, thigh is full of connective tissue and actually gets better above the safe minimum. Take it to 75–80 °C and it goes from rubbery to tender.
Skin side up over indirect heat until nearly done, then flip skin-down over the coals for the last two minutes to crisp it.