Big Chicken

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I regularly freeze cooked chicken and then defrost it and reheat it and have never had any problems.

You can freeze most things as long as they have not been previously frozen in their current state. ie you can freeze something that has not been previously frozen, defrost it, cook it (change the state) and freeze again, but only once. So you can safely freeze once in its raw state and once in its cooked state.

For ideas on what to use the chicken for have a look at these threads:

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Ideas for using a chicken!

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left-over chicken recipes please


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betterlife

hi, if i had a large cooked chicken, i think i`d cut the drums off for tea of lunch tomorrow, then remove the breasts etc to chop for curry/chic tonight etc and then boil rest to make a stock , pick remaining meat off bones and make a chic and veg soup.

betterlife

hi, if i had a large cooked chicken, i think i`d cut the drums off for tea of lunch tomorrow, then remove the breasts etc to chop for curry/chic tonight etc and then boil rest to make a stock , pick remaining meat off bones and make a chic and veg soup.

thriftlady_2

newlywed wrote: »

That would mean that you shouldn't cook a lasagna or shepherds pie, freeze it and then heat it up Do that one all the time too.

Yup, you're right -I'm getting muddled-ignore me:doh:

Paulie'sGirl

Hiya,

I have trouble with the freezing reheat/don't reheat rules. I remember it best that you can only freeze in once in each "state" as it were. So you can freeze it once raw, and freeze it once cooked.

If you were to say make lasagne from frozen ragu sauce, best not refrozen. So with the chicken, you can freeze it now, but you couldn't then defrost it, make a curry and then freeze it again.

Complicated, isn't it!!

PGxx

thriftlady_2

Paulie'sGirl wrote: »

I remember it best that you can only freeze in once in each "state" as it were. So you can freeze it once raw, and freeze it once cooked.

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That's it :T -I've given the same advice many times on here before -think I'm having a pre-menopausal turn today:D