Safe to cook turkey at 190 degrees?

[Raider18]

Put a turkey breast on when my pit was 300. 5 minutes later had to leave unexpectedly when I came back 50 minutes later pit was at 190 and meat at 78. I should be safe since the temp was above 180 right?

 

[gtr]

I'd say you're alright given the available info. Sounds like the turkey was cooking fine to be at 78 in about an hour - in fact, it makes me wonder if the pit temp was actually hotter than 190. Maybe the turkey was near the pit temp probe?

The general rule - at least as I know it - is you don't want to go more than 4 hours between the temps of 40-140 (that's the temp of the food) unless you're smoking cured meats.