About TempChart
TempChart is a reference site for one job: telling home cooks the safe internal cooking temperature, with the exact number an official food-safety agency printed — in both °F and °C. We built it because the answer to "what temp is chicken done?" is scattered across great government pages that are hard to reach from a search box, and drowned in recipes that round, misremember, or quietly mix jurisdictions ("160 °F / 71 °C pork" is a real, wrong hybrid we kept meeting).
Our publishing standard
- Official sources only. Every temperature on this site comes from the USDA FSIS Safe Minimum Internal Temperature Chart, FoodSafety.gov (HHS with FDA/USDA/CDC), the UK Food Standards Agency, Health Canada, or a dated USDA announcement. Nothing is taken from blogs, cookbooks or AI guesses.
- Never rounded. FSIS prints 62.8 °C, 71.1 °C and 73.9 °C; FoodSafety.gov prints 63, 71 and 74 °C. We show each print as printed and attribute it. We never tidy one into the other.
- Jurisdictions differ — we say so. US whole birds are 165 °F (73.9 °C); Canada says 82 °C (180 °F). We present both and never average.
- Verification stamps. Every page carrying numbers states "Sources verified" with the date those pages were checked (currently 2026-11-16) and links the primary documents with rel="nofollow".
How the site is produced
The doneness lookup tool runs on a small data module whose values were transcribed from the agency charts above; a test suite (node tests.mjs in our repository) checks every entry against the agency print, the °F/°C conversions, and that no entry exists without a source. Pages are hand-written around that data. When an agency changes a number — as USDA did for pork in May 2011 — we update the data, the tests, and the articles together.
What we are not
We are not doctors, dietitians or a health authority. TempChart is an educational republisher of public guidance: it is not medical advice, and people who are pregnant, immunocompromised, or cooking for young children or older adults should follow their own health authority's stricter advice. See the disclaimer for the full terms.
Found a number that doesn't match an agency page? That matters more than anything else on this site — please write to Vantoron@gmail.com.