Turkey: to eat or not to eat after 9 days?

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Is it safe to eat a turkey, cooked on Boxing Day, allowed to cool and then kept in a cold fridge since? It looks and smells fine but it is almost 9 days since it was cooked. It seems a shame to waste it if it is safe to eat.

I know some people would eat it without considering it an issue and some people would run screaming for the hills rather than eat it!

But can anyone tell me please if it is safe to eat from an actual food safety knowledge point of view?

Oh! That makes it all ok if it's from Waitrose. A common Aldi Turkey on the other hand 🙄

9 days and a use by date of Boxing Day? Not a chance would I have eaten it after Boxing Day!

Food poisoning is simply dreadful. Not worth the risk. If you're worried about wasting money, just think if you eat the turkey and actually get food poisoning, you'll wish you could pay 10x that to feel well again! So wasting a small amount of £ by throwing it away now is actually a bargain!!!

I don’t feel so bad about binning the couple of drumsticks leftover from my chicken, instead of making curry / stock etc, now…

Definetly NOT safe to eat! Bin it and be sure to clean where it was stored for all that length of time! What were you thinking? Wouldn't even consider using it for pet food now!

Do you want to be shitting through the eye of a needle? I’d have lobbed that out ages ago! Don’t risk it with poultry. It’s the worst thing to make you seriously ill.

Absolutely not. Would have been in bin 28 December at the latest. But I once ate chicken in Morocco that gave me three weeks of diarrhoea and seemingly permanently damaged my gut biome, so I'm pretty cautious now.

It's a crown on the bone, if that makes any difference. That was part of my thinking, that it is unsliced and hasn't been messed around with - similar to what a pp said about unsliced meats in delis. I was just thinking of turkey sandwiches with leftover apple and cranberry sauce for everyone with afternoon tea today to use it all up.

I can't believe you're still considering it :(

Nope still wouldn't do it. And as I said, I'm very relaxed.

At least now you know you can freeze it.

Only if you have several stone you want to lose out both ends over the next few days?

I'm pretty much follow your nose (and get stuff fridged as soon as possible) but not at 9 days. I think cured ham etc might have different rules, because cured, but not turkey.

Shame and sorry your Christmas was difficult.

My DS scarfed a turkey leg yesterday - cooked on Christmas Eve! In the fridge, not frozen, smelt fine and he seems none the worse. I wouldn’t have chanced it but he didn’t tell me until afterwards.

https://www.foodsafety.gov/food-safety-charts/cold-food-storage-charts

Nah. Its meat. It will be literally decaying by now.
Don't eat the decaying turkey.

Madness. I have to admire your courage though and your frugality. I have emetophobia so even someone else contemplating this is like a fever dream.

I wouldn’t.

What was the point of asking? You're not taking any notice. You were always going to eat it anyway.

Would you like to be invited for afternoon tea knowing the turkey was cooked almost 9 days ago?

Eat it and let us know what happens

Not a chance

(I mean I'm sure you knew it...but next time you'll remember!)

I know it's a shame not to eat it, but it's really a bit too risky IMO.

Depends whether you’ve started your new year diet yet?

Crack on if you fancy sitting on the toilet for the next 48 hours and losing a few pounds/kgs.

Please please tell your guests it's 9 days old before they eat it.
Poultry 2 days in a fridge once cooked, then chuck!!!

Makes absolutely no difference 😂😂😂

Christ, no. Just no.