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Use of a food thermometer is the only way to determine that the internal temperature of ground beef patties has reached 160Â°F (13, 19). (Unfortunately, only 13% of consumers always or often use a thermometer when cooking or grilling hamburgers (9).) Learn how to use a food thermometers when cooking ground beef:
Undercooking of ground beef. We defined undercooking as cooking to less than 155Â°F because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food Code says that restaurants should cook ground beef to 155Â°F for 15 seconds. We also looked at whether restaurants used a thermometer to check final temperatures of hamburgers.