# Cooking cornish hens

**URL:** <https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/cooking-cornish-hens/3642>\
**Category:** Anova Precision® Cooker\
**Created:** [December 27, 2016, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/cooking-cornish-hens/3642 "2016-12-27T13:00:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![donnav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d26b3c/32.png) [@donnav](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/donnav)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/cooking-cornish-hens/3642/1 "2016-12-27T13:00:25Z")

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Hi, I just received my precision cooker and am excited to use it. I have some frozen Rock Cornish hens and was thinking of cooking them. However, I can’t find any recipes for Cornish Hens on this site and don’t know how long or at what temp to cook them. Does anybody have any experience with this?

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**Author:** ![ChefNicole](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/chefnicole/32/100_2.png) [@ChefNicole](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/ChefNicole)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 6:11pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/cooking-cornish-hens/3642/2 "2016-12-29T18:11:26Z")

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Hi Donna! Cornish hens are super easy to cook, and thank you for your question!

My go-to temperature for these little chickens is 150ºF/65.5ºC or higher to get the meat tender and delicious while making sure it is not too pink close to the bone. For a full hen, I recommend a time range of minimum 4 hours and maximum 8 hours. For a stuffed hen, I recommend turning up the heat to 155ºF to 160ºF and using same time range. If you “spatchcock” or butterfly it, you can _reduce_ the time to 2.5 hours.

Hope that helps!