{"id":9,"date":"2026-10-07T03:47:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-carvera\/why-meat-needs-to-rest-after-cooking\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T03:47:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:47:56","slug":"why-meat-needs-to-rest-after-cooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-carvera\/why-meat-needs-to-rest-after-cooking\/","title":{"rendered":"Why meat needs to rest after cooking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meat straight from the pan or oven is tense and hot at the outside. If you cut it at once, more of the juice ends up on the board. A short rest lets the heat even out and the meat relax, so it slices cleanly and stays juicy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Steaks and chops:<\/strong> rest about 5 minutes.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Roasts:<\/strong> rest 10\u201320 minutes, loosely covered with foil, depending on size.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Whole birds:<\/strong> rest 20\u201330 minutes before carving.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Allow for carry-over heat<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The temperature in the middle keeps rising a few degrees while the meat rests, so take it off the heat a little before your target. A meat thermometer takes the guesswork out of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For food safety, the USDA recommends cooking whole cuts of beef, pork and lamb to at least 145\u00b0F (63\u00b0C) with a 3-minute rest, ground meat to 160\u00b0F (71\u00b0C) and all poultry to 165\u00b0F (74\u00b0C).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few minutes on the board makes a steak or roast juicier and easier to carve. Here is how long to wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-carvera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-carvera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-carvera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-carvera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-carvera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-carvera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-carvera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-carvera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-carvera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}