Stopping a domestic

I was going to say that kitty but I thought not in case nobody believed me hahahaa. " I can smell it's cooked ".

I'm the same as your husband - I wouldn't eat any meat that is pink. I only eat chicken and turkey, anyway, as I'm not keen on lamb, pork or beef.

I over-cook meat and fish. If something is meant to be in the oven for an hour, I cook it for another 15 minutes. I once had food poisoning, and I was so ill, I wouldn't ever want that again.

My DH will be pleased to know there are others that back him with all this cautiousness. I won’t go into his other foibles but I certainly wouldn’t swap him.

I don't think the facts of whether the meat is cooked or not has anything to do with it, I doubt all the digital thermometers in the world could convince this man that the meat is fully cooked

Send him to a counsellor, to discover the source of this obsession with whether the meat is fully cooked and then deal with it.

My grandmother used to say that if there wasn’t blood on the plate when beef was served, it was over-cooked. I agree. When we lived in Germany we ate mettbrotchen for lunch, raw peppered minced beef in crusty rolls. Delicious.

With chicken, I just check that the juices run clear when pierced with a skewer.

I’ve only had food poisoning once, and it was immediately after a mussels starter in a very nice restaurant. I had to push past the queue for the ladies’ with my hand clamped firmly over my mouth.

When I reappeared all pale and wan I found that the local society for the deaf were having their Christmas do there, and as I walked past most of them were graphically signing to each other exactly what I had been doing in the loo.

I must confess that since having a very bad attack of food poisoning many years ago, after eating what DF, myself and youngest sister agreed was quite the most delicious steak we had ever eaten, I cannot eat eat meat that is not fully cooked. But I can be rational about whether meat is cooked based on cooking time, temperature and examining it before eating it.

if the legs are falling off the chicken it's ready. ?