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Cooking help - has it gone off??
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:38 pm
by Silence
Ok so i am cooking some chicken and i don;t know if its off or not. it was frozen and i took it out the fridge to thaw about a week ago. it's chicken breasts. I am roasting it at the moment but i won;t eat it if you think it will kill me ;-p
Thanks
Silence
Cooking help - has it gone off??
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:44 pm
by Insomniac
I don't trust week-old chicken. Did you sniff it before you started to cook it? Did it seem fresh? I don't know...I'd be afraid to try it.
Cooking help - has it gone off??
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:46 pm
by Silence
it didn;t smell bad. It smells like chicken now its cooking... It was kind of hard on one side but i thought maybe it was because of the package
Cooking help - has it gone off??
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:49 pm
by RedGlitter
If you took it out of the freezer and moved it to the fridge it's probably ok.
If you took it from the freezer and just thawed it on the counter, throw it out!!
Cooking help - has it gone off??
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:51 pm
by Silence
i moved it into the fridge so do you think it'll be ok?? I can;t afford to get ill
Cooking help - has it gone off??
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:52 pm
by Galbally
I wouldn't eat chicken that was thawed out a week ago, food poisoning is very very unpleasant, I advise you throw it out, its only a few quids (bucks) worth of chicken anyway.
Cooking help - has it gone off??
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:56 pm
by Silence
*sigh* ok. Goodbye roast dinner
Chicken burger it is.
Cooking help - has it gone off??
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:58 pm
by Galbally
Silence;498443 wrote: *sigh* ok. Goodbye roast dinner
Chicken burger it is.
I think its for the best, better that than a week on the bog! I got food poisoning once, oh dear, it was about the sickest I have ever felt without actually being in hospital.
Cooking help - has it gone off??
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 5:00 pm
by Silence
it wasn;t slimy at all but i really really don;t want to be ill. Not worth the risk...
Cooking help - has it gone off??
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 5:05 pm
by abbey
I've done similar and lived to tell the tale, you'll know when it's cooked if it's "off " or not.
edited to add... i do have the constitution of an ox.
Cooking help - has it gone off??
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 5:06 pm
by guppy
i would not eat chicken that has been thawed out a week...no way...throw it out......
Cooking help - has it gone off??
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 5:15 pm
by Betty Boop
flopstock;498446 wrote: Can't go wrong with the slide test..
Pick up a raw piece using your thumb and index finger.. the harder it is to pick up, the older it is.
:wah: Sorry, that tickled me.
Cooking help - has it gone off??
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 5:20 pm
by Nomad
Stop !
Dont risk it. Food poisoning is the ultimate crappy 2 days. Eat peanut butter if your hungry but throw the chicken out !
Cooking help - has it gone off??
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 6:17 pm
by Peg
If I had enough doubt that I had to ask on a forum, I'd throw it out.
Cooking help - has it gone off??
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 6:18 pm
by Tater Tazz
Do not eat chicken that has been left out for that long, you will get sick.
Cooking help - has it gone off??
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 6:23 pm
by Silence
Thanks everyone. I had chicken burger instead. Not quite the same for a roast dinner but itsw only me so who cares really. It was nice and i'll have some nice christmas pud now to top it all off. Yummy.
Consider the chicken chucked.
Cooking help - has it gone off??
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 6:26 pm
by Tater Tazz
very smart thing too do... enjoy the rest of your meal. happy holidays.
