Would you cook and eat out of date chicken

[newcastlewife49]

Bought all ingredients to make a curry, thought I had chicken, but it went out of date yesterday.

Would you still cook it in the curry and eat.

I'd nip back to shop but it will be a hassle, I have 2 young dc, DH has the car and it's raining.

Don’t look at the date , look at and smell the product and then make a decision . Once something is in my fridge I literally ignore dates and we’ve never had an issue .

I've had so much chicken that's gone off a day or two before it's sell by date that I'll now only buy it if it has a week to go and use it on that day.

Why would anyone cook chicken that smells a bit off?

Do people not rely on common sense anymore?? Astounded at the amount of people who just throw stuff away without using their sense of smell or taste...god knows how any of our ancestors survived without dates printed on food packaging.

If it looks and smells OK, then yes.

As long as you’ve got a functioning sense of smell, any ‘off’ meat will be very soon be pretty obvious.

Yes. Definitely for just one day if I knew how it had been stored.

I'd probably go one day over if it had been stored correctly and didn't seem off. More than that it would get binned.

If unopened, stored in a cold fridge, doesn’t smell or look strange, then yes I would. Especially if going into something like a curry that would be simmered for a good length of time (rather than say flash fried).

It’s worth knowing however that food smelling/looking ‘off’ is not a reliable indicator of whether food is safe to eat, but can be helpful alongside other checks.

No, not chicken. I wouldn't risk it. I'm funny about meat in general though, and wouldn't eat anything past its use by date.

It depends if I were cooking just for myself or for a small child, a pregnant woman or someone with fragile health. If it was just for myself, I would smell it first and if it smelled ok, I would cook and eat it without a second thought. I honestly think it’s fine.
But I would observe food safety rules very carefully if I would be cooking for a vulnerable person too and in that case I would cook the chicken and put it in the freezer to eat by myself another time. If I were cooking for another adult like DH (with no health issues) I would ask them first if it was ok for them too to use the chicken. I know DH wouldn’t mind at all as we’re both very careful and try not to waste any food unnecessarily.

No. Chicken is the dodgiest one anyway.

The only way to know is look, smell and touch. It's quite possibly fine (albeit bloody close to not being so) if it looks perfectly okay, feels normal and not slimy and most importantly has no smell. Smell is your big hint at a meat's freshness. The slightest hint of that bad whiff when you open the seal and it's straight in the bin.
I normally adhere to use by dates for meat 99 times out of 100 though (except when frozen) but most other things I take as an advisory only and check the foods myself. Vegetables obviously last weeks after the best by/sell by/use by dates.

If it looks OK and smells OK, it’s OK.

You can always give it a wash under the tap first just in case.

I get twitchy about chicken even the day before the use by date.

Yes of course I’d eat it. Meat doesn’t have an internal clock that clicks over at midnight and then it knows to immediately go off...

If it smells, feels and looks fine I’d definitely use it.

I was born long before all these use by dates came into being so with most things I'll just use my own judgement.

For chicken I will make an exception . It's just not worth the risk

Smell it and trust your instincts

I'd eat it if it didnt smell bad. It probably will though, chicken goes off so quickly.

It's really to do with the rate of bacterial growth.

It's not that it's fine and bang on midnight it goes off.

In 24 hours the number of bacteria might have increased to a level that would.make you ill when, 24 hours earlier, it wouldn't. Or it might make someone with a less robust constitution ill whereas someone else would be fine.

That's why would also I go by smell and texture even before the use by date. So I would use a day after if it was OK.

I would if it was for me and OH. I wouldn't for children or friends. If it was one day over, had been in the fridge the whole time, and smelled OK.

I have recently cooked and eaten chicken that was two days out of date. Obviously not on purpose, I just got confused about the date . It tasted perfectly good and none of us were even the tiniest bit unwell.

Intentionally? I'm not sure if I would risk it. I check the calendar obsessively now.

@newcastlewife49

Bought all ingredients to make a curry, thought I had chicken, but it went out of date yesterday.

Would you still cook it in the curry and eat.

I'd nip back to shop but it will be a hassle, I have 2 young dc, DH has the car and it's raining.

I wouldn't have a problem. It's only one day out and in a curry it will get a good cooking.

The one thing I wouldn't risk to eat out of date and that is chicken.

Sniff it. If it smells like shit, no. If it smells like chicken, yes.

No, threw some out few days ago....most cheap chicken doesn't smell great even when technically fresh.