cooked chicken

hoglet121

Linda32 wrote: »

If you want to know what really not to do. Once you have frozen the cooked meat and defrosted it. DO NOT re-freeze it.

You're not supposed to... but I did this by accident and nothing happened.... so I do it quite often now

worried123

Thank you everyone. I did have the chicken again this evening with a roast (this is how neurotic I am......I had my vegetables on one plate with hot gravy and the cold chicken on a separate plate as i did not want to put it next to hot vegetables and gravy)....

What concerned me was that when i googled about cooked chicken it said that you should cool it off quickly before putting it in the fridge.........

Anyway - thank you all very much......actually, if you think about it, I usually have something ready made from M&S and all those meals have been cooked once.....they are transported to the shop and then sit on the shelves for up to about 4 days and we then transport them home, put them in our fridge - which could be for a couple of days depending on the sell by date...and then we heat them up again........Also have you noticed that some food in M&S is just in a box!.......I dont eat meat pies often but they are usually just in a box uncovered.....

I am far too neurotic and paranoid.

The person that mentioned being very ill from rice.........isnt it strange that you have to be so very, very careful when reheating rice......it has to reach the most hot temperature......

Thank you again...

twiglet98

I frequently buy a fresh chicken at the weekend, roast it for Sunday supper, add cold chicken to salad for Monday lunch, strip the carcass Monday evening and make stock which will either be used during the week, or put into the freezer on Tuesday when it's cold enough to skim the fat off. The meat that I stripped off will be used through the week, depending if it's just me here or either of my daughters has joined me. Sometimes it's eaten cold but more often reheated,maybe in a curry, or pie, pasta bake, risotto, or topped with a sauce and gratin or sliced potatoes and slung in the oven. It's fine. Not much food of any sort is going to be sterile, bugs are in everything and 99.99999% of them aren't going to hurt. Bagged salad leaves bother me, reheated chicken doesn't.

People were stretching their weekend chicken for several days long before 'best before' dates were dreamed up, and before fridges too. Relax, trust your eyes and your nose - if it looks ok and smells ok, you don't need to let it become a food (and money) waste statistic!

pigpen

worried123 wrote: »

The person that mentioned being very ill from rice.........isnt it strange that you have to be so very, very careful when reheating rice......it has to reach the most hot temperature......

Thank you again...

No, not strange at all when you know the facts.. it is home to specific bacteria which excrete a very very toxic waste product very very quickly which remains toxic after extreme heating.. you eat old rice, you will be ill.

4 day old fried rice which had spent that time in the microwave .. in the summer... it was never going to end well!! Tasted alright though!!


It is a very fascinating process.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_cereus