Cooking Frozen Chicken?

zenmaster

Aaargh :mad:

I've just got back from the shops and found my son has popped home for his lunch break and taken a frozen chicken fillet and put it straight into the oven without defrosting. I have no idea for how long or at what temperature. He didn't like the look of it as it has "white stuff coming out". It looks like the water you get from bacon to me.

It's a beautiful piece of Farm Foods free range chicken too and it seems a shame to let it go to waste.

Is it beyond salvation?

Thanks.

Bitsy_Beans

It probably was water (used to plump up the breast) so nothing sinister there.

I would dice it, pan fry it again and use it in a salad or a curry or something with a sauce (hence the dicing). This way you can make sure it is definately cooked (as if it was undercooked it would still be pink) and just hedging your bets by cooking it again.

dronid

It should be fine as it's only a thin bit of meat. It's ensuring it's cooked throughout that's the issue. You should be fine.

Mind you you might want to do some aversion therapy on your son! ;-)

zenmaster

Too Late. Wife's eaten it!

It looked OK and seemed to be cooked through.

zippychick

Personally i would be too paranoid to cook from frozen! Always scared of poisoning myself. Goodluck! let us know how you get on.

Penny-Pincher!!

My friends husband cooked a chicken from frozen once and it nearly killed her. She did lose 12lbs in 1 week though, but not a nice way to do it.

Hope she is ok.

I would never of eaten it.

PP
xx

rednose66

A bit of white oozing out in the cooking process is nothing to worry about just cook slowly until the oozing stops. Cut through and ensure that the breast is properly cooked right through.

Butterfly_Brain

Frozen breast fillets can be cooked straight from frozen with no ill effects.
I always defrost if the meat is on the bone though

anguk

I'm sure I've seen chicken breasts that you just cook from frozen in Iceland or somewhere like that?

Personally it's not something I would eat, I like my meat defrosted before it goes in the oven.

valk_scot

You can cook thin bits of meat from frozen ie chops, steak, chicken breasts etc. The texture is better if you let these defrost first though. You can also cook thin things like sausages and burgers straight from frozen...in fact commercial ones often say on the packet to do this.

Of course the key thing here is too make sure you cook the meat properly right through. The trouble with cooking whole frozen chickens or joints is that even though the outside can be cooked or even burnt, the inside can still be half raw and bloody. This is a Bad Thing. Mixing raw and cooked meats in the fridge or on a chopping board is bad enough but it's x10 worst in the same piece of meat!

But thin pieces will get cooked all the way through, so don't worry about that.

katholicos

I wouldn't really consider the chance of getting food poisoning, worth taking the risk. If it was the last piece of food on earth that would be different, but as long as there is bread to toast or an egg to boil or a tin of beans to heat up, why risk it?