Uncooked Pork. Risk of food poisoning?

ineedabreak

My housemate said she would defrost the pork chops in the microwave. I thought she had, fried them on the pan and ate them. She had the normal heating setting on for just 2 minutes and not the defrost setting. I fried them for about 10 on a high heat, could have been less cos I can't remember Am I at risk of food poisoning. I'm starting to get really worried as my parents always said it was bad to eat raw meat.

Any Posts would be greatly appreciated

Alf Veedersane

Was it cold at all? Chops don't take too long to cook so if they were warm right through, I think you're worrying about nothing. If you spend the night on the jacks shi*ting out your innards, feel free to tell me I was wrong

Casshern88

Relax i would say your probably fine, Once the food was cooked through on the pan, I used to buy loads of reduced meat if i saw it in tesco or wherever put it in freezer and just defrost in microwave for few min before i wanted to cook it, More than once i hit the cook instead of defrost button and lived to tell the tale. Just dont make a habit of it.

huskerdu

When you ate the chops, did they look and taste cooked ? Were they hot in the middle ? If so they were cooked

Did they look and taste raw ? Were they cold in the middle ? If so - they were not cooked through.

We cant tell over the internet, if the chops were cooked or not.

Gael23

Pork is one of those meats that has to be really well cooked but I imagine they would have had a strange taste if they were not cooked through

phormium

While I still like my pork well done it does seem to no longer be the danger it once was considered to be

http://kitchen-myths.com/2011/06/02/myth-you-must-cook-pork-to-well-done-for-safety-reasons/

Alf Veedersane

ryanf1 wrote: »

Pork is one of those meats that has to be really well cooked

Define 'really well cooked' because if you mean 'chewy' then I have a fantastic constitution since i tend to eat them with a bit of moisture in them.

Blue Crystal

Hope not for the girlfriends sake

Nonoperational

To be honest mate, you could eat raw pork and probably be fine. The chances are it was cooked away. Not much you can do now anyway!

Gael23

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

Define 'really well cooked' because if you mean 'chewy' then I have a fantastic constitution since i tend to eat them with a bit of moisture in them.

Enough so that you can be sure its fully cooked through. Its not a meat like steak which you an eat with minimal cooking.
If i was cooking a chop, I would fry it for about 15mins until it started to brown on the outside

gctest50

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

...... If you spend the night....

The night ? if you're lucky it'll just be weeks

The respiratory failure and paralysis that occur with severe botulism may require a patient to be on a breathing machine (ventilator) for weeks or months, plus intensive medical and nursing care. The paralysis slowly improves. Botulism can be treated with an antitoxin which blocks the action of toxin circulating in the blood.If <antitoxin is> given before paralysis is complete, antitoxin can prevent worsening and shorten recovery time. Physicians may try to remove contaminated food still in the gut by inducing vomiting or by using enemas.

http://www.cdc.gov/nczved/divisions/dfbmd/diseases/botulism/

Rare it seems though, thankfully

Alf Veedersane

Yeah,that's the most likely outcome. Severe botulism.

syklops

ryanf1 wrote: »

Enough so that you can be sure its fully cooked through. Its not a meat like steak which you an eat with minimal cooking.
If i was cooking a chop, I would fry it for about 15mins until it started to brown on the outside

15mins? Are you cooking them over a candle?

duffyshuffle

ryanf1 wrote: »

Enough so that you can be sure its fully cooked through. Its not a meat like steak which you an eat with minimal cooking.
If i was cooking a chop, I would fry it for about 15mins until it started to brown on the outside

For ground pork eg sausage you need to cook through but pork chop or steak can be cooked pink and juicy in the middle. Far tastier than leathery pork

JJayoo

Is the OP still alive?

syklops

JJayoo wrote: »

Is the OP still alive?

No response.... I guess not.

That or he is still on the loo...

Mellor

ryanf1 wrote: »

Enough so that you can be sure its fully cooked through. Its not a meat like steak which you an eat with minimal cooking.

That's not actually true. Pork that isn't infected with roundworms is fine to eat medium rare.
The reason we were told cook it well is a carry over from day when it was more common for them to be infected due to the conditions.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland recently conducted a survey to investigate the prevalence of Trichinella in pigs slaughtered in low-throughput pig slaughterhouses. From August 2007 to January 2009, a total of 10,247 samples were taken and analysed for Trichinella in 33 slaughterhouses supervised by the local authority veterinary service. No positive samples were detected.