Don and Ben talk a lot about temperatures, thermometers, answering tough questions and the best place to tell your kids where babies come from. Show me the data/show me your work becomes a theme for the episode.

Ben's new microphone items (1,2 and 3) and headphones (via Dan Benjamin)
NACMCF Consumer Guidelines for the Safe Cooking of Poultry Products panel report that Don was part of.
USDA/FSIS Appendix A.
Essentially instantaneous death.
Log reductions, not yule log reductions.
Absolute zero.
What a million servings of ground beef might look like (sort of).
Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy says that the answer is 42. Ben knows the reference, has not read the book or seen the movie.
D-values and Z-values (pronounced "zed" values in Canada).
Choosing the right thermometer from guru Pete Snyder.
2009 FDA model food code and the Conference for Food Protection.
Show me the data/science.
Show your work.
Elizabeth Weise, reporter extrordinaire.
Cooking a turkey from a frozen state.
Don's barfblog post on Nathan Myhrvold's book.
Meet the Pete test.
I Don't Know, the Sheepdogs.
NJ car inspections, where you can learn where babies come from.
Paper detaing Health Canada's review of poultry temperatures.
Guatemalan raspberries - the Canadian/US experiment. The ultimate case-control study.
Rocky's egg drink.
Types of companies (1,2) that worry about transport time and temperature.
Bacterial lag time, different from a lag putt or a lag bolt.
It's complicated.
Answer the question, Claire.
We don't usually answer tough questions.
The true Danger Zone, don't let the food safety nerds fool you.
Ze Frank.
Now it's serious business.

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