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

[TobleroneWrestling]

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?

Only if you want to recover in hospital where the food is worse!

Say tara to the turkey😁

What is turkey for but to gobble gobble?

Bin. Bin. Bin.

Please do not eat it. Might look and smell fine but its crawling by now.
3 days max for meat in a fridge.

Nope and I will eat anything. Guidlines are 3 to 4 days I would do 5 to 6 days. 9 is out there 😂

You could try the surfers against sewage trick and wash it down with a can of coke to kill the germs.

My husband ate the last of our turkey yesterday, and said it was still fine. There was definitely no smell. We've still got a bit of soup left but I'm going to Chuck that away as it's clearly on the turn.

Or wash the turkey with bleach, get rid of any salmonella. 😂

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DON'T DO THAT!

Your tin foil clad woman gif took me right back to a fancy dress party and Debbie Harry @tupperwaretowers!

All those sliced cooked meats you buy in the supermarket... how long before you buy them (never mind eat them) do you think they were cooked?!

Before there's a big pile-on, I KNOW they are cooked in a factory, packed into inert packaging etc, so it's not directly comparable, but 9 days is not that long.

It's longer than I'd be comfortable with, but I certainly wouldn't be borderline hysterical about it like some posters!

I don’t think my cat would even eat that and he is a real greedy so and so! No I would throw it away. Food poisoning is awful.

People think you are crazy, that's why this thread is trending!

Tin foil doesn't have magical properties. It won't prevent some kind of hideous food poisoning.

I’d rather go hungry than eat 9 day old turkey,

Hospitals are chock a block full of people with Noro, Covid and Flu atm, so I wouldn’t be wanting to end up there with food poisoning either.

Not even I would tbh and I ignore use by dates

This is the reason I now buy a boned and rolled turkey, so easy to deal with the left overs on Boxing Day . I put through the slicer and put some for sandwiches, some for that days dinner, cube some to make the pie, then slice the rest and freeze in family size portions covered with the left over gravy thinned down

My mum used to leave the turkey out in the kitchen for days and it was used for sandwiches! In the 70's. Maybe people were less likely to get food poisoning then!

But no, I usually eat things way past sell by dates but I think 9 days is too long.

I finished our beef yesterday and I'm planning on having the last of the ham with some noodles later, so if it doesn't smell, I'd go ahead and eat it.

Do tell, @TobleroneWrestling have you had a little nibble yet? 😁

Absolutely not.
When I was a kid, my mum got food poisoning so bad she was hospitalised from eating turkey that was a couple days old. Don't do it.

Thank you for this link @Dotto - more than double the recommended time is, err, definitely serious food for thought.

I'd eat it myself, I wouldn't feed to other unsuspecting family or children.

I hate food waste, and will eat chicken seven days after cooking ( wouldn't give it to anyone else though) but I too, have a gut of steel. Nine days would be pushing it, even for me I am sorry to say.

Next year freeze any leftovers after you have done turkey ham and leek pie, turkey risotto, and made a stock from the bones and bits.

I've only poisoned myself once in 60years despite this cavalier attitude- bought a chicken before a five hour car journey to a holiday cottage, didn't keep it cool, cooked and ate it on arrival. My god I was ill. Cold shivers, hot sweats, vomming and shitting for England ( or in this case, Ireland) . Serves me right for being so stupid.

9 days sitting in a fridge, I'm surprised it doesn't stink. It needs to go straight in the bin.

No, really don’t. My previously mentioned relative who got food poisoning from chicken needed a lot more than Imodium and Milk of Magnesia. They were in intensive care and almost died. They were seriously ill.

All this crap about ‘having a sniff’, ‘not having a sensitive stomach’, etc, is utter rubbish.