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How long does cooked chicken keep for?

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  • jcr16
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    i do a 3 day rule, and in theory it is, you cooked fri 24 later is sat ( 1 day), 24 hours later is sun ( 2 day) and another 24 hours later ( day 3)is today monday. but i wouldn't leave it any longer.
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  • leo~saphira
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    Its fine :) - I done it with chicken meat cooked (and chilled) for 5-6 days. If it starts to get a bit slimey on the meat then its out of the door :D
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    edited 10 January 2011 at 10:11PM
    Its fine..id use it.

    My favourite use for cooked chicken is to put it in home made Paella...yummy...and a nice bottle of Rioja.

    Incidentally,i recommend Sainsburys Paella rice. Its in a little sack like a bag of sugar with a mainly black wrapper.

    Some other brands take an age to soften and absorb the juices.

    Conveniently,there is a recipe on the side which you can scale up as it suits.

    I tend to make a big batch and tupperware the rest for other meals.

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    Another one here who'd eat it perfectly happily. We were still eating left-over christmas turkey three days after christmas as cold meat straight out of the fridge. Cooking it way beyond that.
    Wasn't there some kind of old saying about making a joint last all week - "Cooked on Sunday, Cold on Monday, minced on Tuesday etc" - and that was from the days before fridges! :D
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    But I'll be haunted by the double waste of cash for days.....:cry:

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  • yummymummyoftwo
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    Hiya all
    Just thought id ask if anyone knows what i can do with a whole cooked chicken?
    I bought 2 yesturday but we only ate 1 of them , its been in fridge since it cooled so will it be ok today? and any ideas what i could make with it?
    Dont really want to throw it away:o
    TIA
  • Penelope_Penguin
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    Pull the meat off and make pasties; use the bones and skin, etc, to make stock then soup :T
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    Penpen - do you have a foolproof recipe for the pastry to make pasties? :)
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    xx_Jo_xx wrote: »
    Penpen - do you have a foolproof recipe for the pastry to make pasties? :)

    I use the recipe from Economy Gastronomy - just about to go out, so I'll find it for you as soon as I'm back :)
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