To Cook an out of date chicken?

[begonyabampot]

was dated used by the 12th - just hate to waste it and throw it out.

As long as it doesn't smell off, boil it for a couple of hours and make stew or stock. Just add vegetables and it will be an excellent meal.

It's a generation thing. My friends would not hesitate to do this. Our children would rather starve than eat anything past the sell by date, let alone a best before date. Lucky thay don't have chance to examine the packaging of everything they eat when they come to visit.

Chicken is one of the meats that will give you food poisioning if eaten out of date.

Throw it and stop being so tight.

I'd put it in the bin. Before it walks over there and disposes of itself.

Whilst you do have to be VERY careful with chicken, I'd use the nose test rather than going by the use by

That said, I've had quite a few chickens go wiffy before the use by, so if you're in doubt chuck it in the bin

Personally I would chuck it - paranoid when it comes to chicken- but the nose over date thing is true. I've binned meat within its date because it was off.

problem solved, just scene it do a runner out the back door! It's off!

If I was you I'd be serving up a veggie meal tonight. I could not bring myself to eat chicken which I'd washed and rubbed in vinegar just to gt rid of the smell. I have never been that hungry!!

or seen

Just opened it and it smelled ok actually, dilema! Might go for the boil technique with some veggies thrown in.

For perfect chicken soup:

Put the chicken in a pot with cold water, add few carrots, one or two onions with the peel still on (it will give the soup a lovely yellow colour), a leek, peppercorns, few allspice grains, thyme. Bring gently to boil, and then let it simmer for about hour and a half or until the meat is tender. Few minutes after it has started to simmer take a spoon and remove the foam (that'll be protein from the chicken) from the surface.

Serve with noodles (homemade pasta is best) and lots of fresh parsley.

Whatever meat is left can be used in risotto etc.

II cooked chicken breasts at the weekend that were 1 day over, as they smelt fine. I wouldn't do it 3 days over-its not worth it.

Just think about sitting on the loo for hours shitting and spewing[hope that puts you off]

it's staring at me from the pot - keep going over and sniffing it.

My butcher recommends removing all cellophane packaging, popping chicken in a container or wrapping well in greaseproof paper or somesuch but use within three days of him selling it to me.

Yabvu

Chicken has a seven day shelf life from slaughter, that is all.
It's way past it's best.
Chicken meat over 5 days old isn't even allowed for pet food from DH's factory.

lol at yr posts begonya. Really it'll be fine if you cook it properly. There is really no substitute for common sense. I've bought chicken that has gone off before it's use by date and binned it, yet cooked chicken that's past it's date and no problem. The vinegar thing is something that has been passed down from my Mum but we are all so indoctrinated with supermarket sell by/use by/best before dates etc etc etc....
(just post tomorrow to tell us you're still alive
Oh - and you're feeding the very elderly or very young are you???

Sorry - meant NOT feeding!

at bobs, useful form of euthanasia

If it looks and smells ok I would eat it.

QUICK MINI CLASS ON FOOD POISONING:

If a food stuff is OFF, the "bacteria" will indeed be killed by the cooking or heating of the substance. HOWEVER, the bacteria release TOXINS (the bits that make you sick, ie "poison"), and these toxins do not disappear through cooking.

therefore, cooking something that is off does not make it o.k. It may still be o.k., and people may not get sick, but you are taking a significant risk.

I think they should teach food science in schools in the UK, when I read threads like these I shudder at the thought of eating at someone's house!

Take this experiment a bit further, and apply the same logic, ie eating full on rotting chicken... Cooking will NOT make it o.k.

It was more than two weeks old by the time it got to the sell by date - from slaughter to packet -
if it smells OK, use your brain not the supermarkets profits.

Good beef is hung for at least three weeks before sale
venison for longer

I'm cooking a chicken - organic - that was in date but smelt a bit rough.

Will we die? I intend to overcook it a bit.

Not sure how smelly is smelly?

Talking, neither beef nor lamb contain bacteria inside the meat such as salmonella, that chicken does, but on the outside. Which is why you can eat it rare.

interesting Chandon. Are you a food scientist or something?