Chicken thigh

Kycklinglår

78°CDark meat improves past the safety minimum.

Cook to this all the way through

Safe minimum 72°CLivsmedelsverket

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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.