Cooking chicken!

[annalea(:]

Feel so stupid posting this here but its worth a try seeing as google is useless!
Please pay attention to the details!!
My mum cooked chicken breasts for near enough an hour in the oven. Being the food freak i am when my mum gave it to me i cut into it.
It was OPAQUE WHITE, BEARLY PINK TONE THROUGHOUT! Its was VERY PALE PINK!! BARELY EVEN NOTICEABLE!!!
Googling i have read people saying to go get my stomach pumped, I'm going to die some people are saying I'm fine! I even read something that chicken near the joint is more pink!
So confused! Please can someone put my mind at rest, getting panicky!!

AnnaLea
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[Tristanayoubi]

perfectly normal. the chicken is fine.. what temp was it baked at?

[kzac]

I get this my husbsnd takes the piss out of me, i dont really eat any other meat bar chicken yet its the one i most panic about eating!!! If its been cooked for an hour its cooked it is normal to be very pale pink inside!

Kellyx

[annalea(:]

My mum said it was cooked for 45 mins and I'm assuming 180*C or higher :S

Same here!! I hate all other meats but i love chicken, though i get really panicky after i have eaten it!
My boyfriend is a chef and his mother is a nurse and said it would be fine!
Apparently its rare to get food poisoning from chicken...obviously I'm not going to start eating it raw, haha!
Thank you both though!
I shall keep you updated on how i feel :)
AnnaLea
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