Rotisserre cooked chickens

funkymonkey

sorry OS regulars but i need some help!

i bought my hot chicken today in tescos but it was for dinner tonight so i left it out still wrapped up and then when it had cooled i popped it in the fridge! (i remember that much is right!)

im going to carve it up for our sunday roast but now im pannicking thinking is it going to be safe to eat?

i know its such a silly question but my parents are away on holiday and granny's not around anymore (and i know she would know! lol)

do you guys re-heat them or best served cold?

Penelope_Penguin

funkymonkey wrote: »

do you guys re-heat them or best served cold?

I've never bought a ready-roasted chicken, but if I was eating one I'd roasted myself, I'd either have it cold (with new potatoes and salad) or slice it and heat it rigth through in gravy

HTH, Penny. x

funkymonkey

thanks penny. might slice it and pop it in some gravy in the oven for an hour whilst my roasties cook!

what would we do these days without a computer? lol perhaps fend for ourselves i hear you cry! - sometimes i wish id paid more attention to my mother when i was growing up.

Pink.

Hi funkeymonkey,

I have bought them before when they're reduced at the end of the day as they make great (cheap) sandwiches for the packed lunches. As Penny has said just treat it like you would a chicken you had roasted yourself.

If you're reheating it sliced in gravy an hour might be a bit long and it could end up overcooked. I would warm up the gravy, pour over the chicken, cover the dish with tinfoil and heat in the oven (which I assume is quite hot if you're doing roast potatoes in it) for about 15 - 20 minutes (depending on the amount of chicken) or until it's piping hot right through.

Pink

kunekune

Not quite the same, but when we were on holiday in Spain last summer we bought cold cooked chickens at the supermarket. I would guess they were free range, going by the flavour, and we got two meals out of each of them. I kept them in the fridge, and only heated the meat if it was for a hot meal.

And to go even further off-topic, the same supermarkets also had tetrapaks of gazpacho. Oh.............. I want some now!

jimmyay

Reheated cooked then chilled chicken? sounds dodgy to me.

charliee_3

you can reheat it, but only once.. so if you make a curry out of the chicken (as i often do) you cant reheat any left over curry...

geordie_joe

charliee wrote: »

you can reheat it, but only once.. so if you make a curry out of the chicken (as i often do) you cant reheat any left over curry...

Why not? I've done it all my life, well the last 35 years of it, and it's never done me or any of my family any harm.

charliee_3

its one of those things... you are only 'supposed' to cook, freeze or reheat things once in each state, so you an cook things and then reheat them once, or cook them, freeze them and then reheat them once...
so if you make curry with ready cooked chicken you are reheating it when you make the curry and to then reheat leftover curry is double reheating.. but im sure if you boil the bejesus out of it not a lot of harmful stuff would live in it??!!

geordie_joe

charliee wrote: »

its one of those things... you are only 'supposed' to cook, freeze or reheat things once in each state, so you an cook things and then reheat them once, or cook them, freeze them and then reheat them once...

So, no real reason then, just hearsay.

charliee wrote: »

so if you make curry with ready cooked chicken you are reheating it when you make the curry and to then reheat leftover curry is double reheating.. but im sure if you boil the bejesus out of it not a lot of harmful stuff would live in it??!!

Why boil the bejesus out of it? Surely you only need to heat it sufficiently to kill anything harmfully in it.

tigerlily

Hi all, I bought a whole hot chicken from ASDA today and ideally would like to slice a freeze it to use in sandwiches later........is this possible? Sounds like a dumb question I know but I dont know if the chickens are cooked in store or just re-heated and if they are just re-heated would that mean it cannot be frozen???
Thank you in advance!:beer: