Chicken smells rank - can I still cook it?

[MozzchopsThirty]

It's dated tomorrow
Been in the fridge since I bought it
But it stinks
And I can't face going to the co-op to buy an overpriced one

Will it be ok??? If I nuke it for 2 hours?

Ugh no sorry OP I wouldn't risk it. It's turned- order pizza maybe?

😂 no.

Nooooo! Please don't.

No, you don't need food poisoning. Wrap it very thoroughly and take it back to the shop you bought it from with receipt and complain bitterly. You should get a refund, quite possibly a double one. And go to co-op now and buy replacement.

Of course not.

Why would you want to cook and eat something that “smells rank”?

I am normally pretty blasé about food in the fridge but definitely not if it smells noticeably bad. It's one of the key signs it's off.

No. And I’m the most devil may care person you will meet to food dates. But if it stinks it’s off. Bin and don’t go near it.

Even without receipt, the packaging and date will show that it came from the original shop.

No. No. No.
No.
Throw it in the outside bin, tis gone.

Trust your nose rather than the dates..... don't eat it !

If it smells, then it’s probably gone off! Don’t risk it.

I’ve had a spate of fruit and veg (don’t eat meat) going off before sell by dates recently. I wonder why?

No, if it smells rank please do not eat it. You could make yourself very sick.

I have had the odd issue like this in the past and though it was maybe packaging causing the smell, so cautiously cooked the life out of it, but they still smell afterwards and you still end up binning them having wasted energy cooking!

Good God no! I never worry too much about sell buy dates but if something smells rank it's off regardless.

No way, always trust your nose first!!!!

Why would nuking it for two, or two hundred, hours suddenly make it OK to eat? If it smells rank it is gone, a late, great chicken. Get rid.

No, no, no. This is the other side of using your brain about use by dates.
If the cheese or whatever looks fine and smells fine after its date, it's probably fine.

But if the high risk food smells rank before its date you still believe your nose, not the printing on the plastic packaging!!

Also, if you start to cook it, the smell will get worse and stink your whole house out.

Cook something else

Do complain to the shop you bought it from though.

Nooooo - esp not raw chicken with salmonella risks etc

I'd take it back for refund if not too much faff or go to Co-op and hope they have something in the reduced section (and its not whiffy when you open it) OR just fill up on extra veg etc.

Not worth potential food poisoning

Bin it or you could end up with food poisoning. At best with D & V for a couple of days or worst being hospitalised. Knew of a bride to be who got food poisoning on her hen do and was hospitalised. Had to cancel the honeymoon and couldn't even stand to make her vows.

Why on earth would you even contemplate this? If it smells rank it’s not safe to eat.

A) no you absolutely shouldn't eat it

B) cheap chicken will most likely have been treated appallingly, if you're going to eat chicken you should at least buy free range. Co op is hardly overpriced.

No way. I'm recovering from food poisoning today and can tell you the last 24 hours have been pretty awful.

Smell is one of the very best indicators of whether a food safe to eat or not. If your sense of smell is saying no, listen to it!

I once cooked a lasagne with mince meat that smelled off, because it was in date and thought it was just me ( I was hungover).
I have never been so ill before or since- don't do it !!!
( unless you want to lose 7lb in 3 days like I did)

This happened to a friend she took the chicken back, got a refund and then discovered her fridge was not working