Omelette, scrambled eggs etc. Are there any visual cues by which you could know if the eggs are "Safely cooked"?
Eggs – the recommended temperature for cooking eggs
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Best Answer
The FDA recommends 160°F (71°C) for dishes containing eggs. If you're scrambling eggs or making an omelette, as long as they're coagulated/solidified, they'll be safe.
The easiest way to confirm this is with sous vide eggs. For example, this Food Lab sous vide egg guide has 155°F, 160°F, and 165°F eggs:
which clearly show that the white won't be totally solidified until 160°F or even 165°F, even when cooked for an extended period of time.
(To be clear, those lower-temperature eggs are actually safe if cooked for sufficient time. The point here is just to show coagulation versus temperature, to demonstrate that when eggs cooking in a pan, you can use the solidity as a temperature indicator.)