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.