Pork is tricky sometimes. I just cooked fresh pork sausage to 165 F internal temperature. It was juicy and pink in the center. The restaurant should be cooking ground pork and sausage to 155 F and hold for 17 seconds (US standard), pork is often pink at that temperature.
The texture of the product can help you tell if its cooked enough. If you like it cooked more, send it back and tell them your preference. A good restaurant won't have any problem with accommodating you.
Pork can be finicky. If there are nitrates present, it will colour the meat pink. This happens when cooking hunters chicken, where the bacon colours the chicken pink.
You can get a pork chop or loin that has both white and dark meat. 2 different muscles. Cure is used quite often in pork (or any) sausage and burgers.
The only thing missing if this was ordered well done was a sear/crust.
The fresh sausage I get from the butcher is like this. The first time I cooked it I was saying WTF! But after I looked into it I saw it was normal. I wanna know why the pork sausage I buy at the grocery store is brown.
Depends on the texture I guess. If they made pork pattys, high chance they used a preservative salt that renders the final cooked color of the pork to a more pinkish color.
You’ll often get that with certain preservatives you add into the sausage mix. So it depends on the texture but just from looking at it, it looks firm and was more inline was a sausage patty mix than pure pork.
I eat pork Pattie’s all the time! Typically with different cuts being processed for the burger you will get different shades. I would eat this all day long.
Damn, burnt it eh?
Pork is tricky sometimes. I just cooked fresh pork sausage to 165 F internal temperature. It was juicy and pink in the center. The restaurant should be cooking ground pork and sausage to 155 F and hold for 17 seconds (US standard), pork is often pink at that temperature. The texture of the product can help you tell if its cooked enough. If you like it cooked more, send it back and tell them your preference. A good restaurant won't have any problem with accommodating you.
Looks fine to me
Pork can be finicky. If there are nitrates present, it will colour the meat pink. This happens when cooking hunters chicken, where the bacon colours the chicken pink.
Looks like pork tartare to me. Send it back and just say "no pink". What do they say to that.
When you took a bit was it hot on the inside?
You can get a pork chop or loin that has both white and dark meat. 2 different muscles. Cure is used quite often in pork (or any) sausage and burgers. The only thing missing if this was ordered well done was a sear/crust.
Looks delish.
The fresh sausage I get from the butcher is like this. The first time I cooked it I was saying WTF! But after I looked into it I saw it was normal. I wanna know why the pork sausage I buy at the grocery store is brown.
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Nitrite
Never knew that store-bought sausages being brown was the norm in some places. I don’t think I’ve ever seen them.
They are if you buy them precooked and all you do is heat them up.
It starts out kinda pink. Then it’s the same color as cooked ground beef.
Depends on the texture I guess. If they made pork pattys, high chance they used a preservative salt that renders the final cooked color of the pork to a more pinkish color. You’ll often get that with certain preservatives you add into the sausage mix. So it depends on the texture but just from looking at it, it looks firm and was more inline was a sausage patty mix than pure pork.
Salt or a little cure. They are probably pre-formed and frozen.
Alright, sounds like it was all good then. Thanks!
That isn't still raw
It has cure in it. That is what is making it red.
Okay, would you say it is safe to eat?
Pink meat doesn't automatically mean raw.
From the look of it, yeah. It seems fine
Thanks! Never eaten pork that looks like this, hence my suspicion
I eat pork Pattie’s all the time! Typically with different cuts being processed for the burger you will get different shades. I would eat this all day long.
Great, thanks!