Can I use chicken date stamped for today - tomorrow?

[BewareTheBeardedDragon]

I've just realised that I've messed up and made pasta for tea when we were supposed to be using chicken which is stamped today. Can I save it in any way?

I was going to make it marinated and breadcrumbed - could I marinate it tonight and cook it tomorrow? Or put it in the marinade and then in the freezer over night?

Help!

I would.
Smell it first - it should be fine.
The chicken doesn't know the date on it.

Yes, no problem. Just use it tomorrow, no need to freeze.

You will know if the chicken is off, but I’d be confident it will be fine tomorrow.

I wouldn't, you could cook it tonight in a casserole or curry, then refreidgerate and reheat tomorrow. Or cook it then have it cold or make a pie tomorrow,

I’d cook today snd reheat tomorrow

Yeah I would. As long as it smells ok it will be fine just a day over the use-by date.

If you’re worried you’d probably be better off cooking it thoroughly tonight and reheating tomorrow for dinner, but as you’re breadcrumbing it it may not reheat well.

I’d cook today

Itll be fine. Its not going to suddenly go off just because its a day past its date. Presumably it smells OK.

It wouldn't even cross my mind not to use it but then I tend to take dates as more of a guide and go by how things look/smell. So far that system has worked for me.

It'll be fine.

I am pretty wary of chicken but once the chicken smells ok I would use it. It does not know it has gone past midnight

It's a guide on the stamp. If it looks alright and smells alright, its alright!
It will be fine to eat tomorrow.

I’d cook it in curry or something today and then reheat. I know it won’t magically go off on the stroke of midnight, but the chances of it being off are going up with each day.

Smell it. Chicken going off smells awful, chicken with no obvious smell means it's ok to cook. If chicken is stored in a very cold part of the fridge it can last an extra 5 days uncooked.

Chicken is one of the easy ones as it will stink when turning bad.

Can you adapt the recipe choice so that it is cooked tonight and allowed to cool naturally before going back in the fridge? Or freezer. This will reset the safe use date btw.

NO! The Chicken is preset programmed to become DEADLY POISONOUS at 12 midnight exactly! The only way to avoid this is to jump on a fast plane travelling west and stay ahead of the dateline until you've cooked it.

Argh - split opinion. My dc are super fussy and won't eat anything easy like casserole or saucy 🙄
Do we think that if I skipped marinade and breadcrumbed and cooked it tonight, that it would be nice to eat reheated tomorrow?

@TheSandman

NO! The Chicken is preset programmed to become DEADLY POISONOUS at 12 midnight exactly! The only way to avoid this is to jump on a fast plane travelling west and stay ahead of the dateline until you've cooked it.

Damon you covid, ruining my chicken date stamp avoidance plans

Yeah it would be if you do that OP. Why can't you marinade now and cook tonight, then reheat tomorrow though? That's what I'd do.

I wouldn’t, anything else, probably. Chicken, never.

Where's it from? I wouldn't trust Aldi chicken past its use-by date. Several times I've bought chicken from Aldi and its gone already a day or two before it. From anywhere else I'd say it'll be fine tomorrow, obviously give it the sniff test first though!

I would absolutely eat it tomorrow, most of my food has yellow stickers on it!

Right, thanks - I'm decided, best not to risk it, off to whack it in a marinade and I'll cook it later on.

I would because I reckon if the supermarkets put the actual use by date then statistically half the product would be off by that date and they would have constant complaints and refunds to field. So I go with there being a couple of days leeway with a use by date. —just don’t tell DH!—

I would (and do). I was told by someone in the poultry industry that they build in a day’s leeway. Provided it smells ok and has been kept in the fridge, it’ll be fine.

Thanks - I'm chicken so it's in the oven now.