Yes, a slow cooker will cook meat at 200-300 degrees F. Much slower than most other means thus the name slow cooker. Anyways, bacteria which spoils meats cannot survive above 165 degrees F which a slow cooker will more than adequately do.
If your meat is well cooked, then yes it should.
I would say yes, but I'm not especially paranoid about food poisoning and would just cook it anyways. Thorough cooking of improperly thawed beef will kill off any bacteria, but it might not eliminate the toxins formed by the bacteria.
The reason why is to kill the bacteria & prevent salmonella
The bacteria in the chicken will be killed by any way of cooking. So then the answer is yes.
I suppose you are referring to poultry and pork. As for poultry, salmonella is present throughout the meat and in pork it's trichinosis, therefore, in order to completely kill the bacteria the meat needs to be cooked to a minimum internal temperature of 140 to 145 degrees. As for beef, the bacteria is on the surface. Minimum cooking is allowed, as in steak tartar tartar. Ground beef contains multiple integrated surface layers and must be cooked to 140/145. Ask your local health department for proper cooking times and temps.
Vinegar can kill bacteria on solid surfaces. However, you would have to saturate the beef in vinegar to make sure it was killed.
160 degrees. Since ground beef is ground fine and handled a lot it is susceptable to bateria. 160 degrees will kill the harmful bacteria. I suggest you buy steaks and grind them yourself. This way you can safely cook them medium for a juicy burger.
No, because in order to cook that item you require quite a bit of heat. That heat is going to defrost it no matter what you do. It would be nearly impossible to have it in a frozen state while cooking with any technology currently available.
Salmonella is the name of a species of bacteria.
Cooking will kill a lot of vegetative cells, but cooking does not sterilize the food.
It will kill a lot of bacteria, but it does not sterilize the food.
No it is not. It is dried with salts and heat. The only reason people dry out beef is to dehydrate the bacteria on the meat so it will not spoil. The sun would not be fast enough to kill the bacteria.
Fortunately, typical cooking temperatures and the pasteurization process do kill this bacteria.