to not eat stinky chicken??

[auntpolly]

Said chicken has been in the oven for an hour (DH and I eat together when he gets back from work) and it is still stinking out the flat. It's well within date (and cornfed, not sure if it matters) and smelt like drains when I opened it.

DH thinks we should eat it because it is in date and expensive, I am dry heaving. Maybe I should take the wrapper back to Sainsbury's and make them smell it?

squeakytoy he really is when it comes to things like this. I'm amazed he's still alive.

KurriKurri thank your DH for the advice, I bet it is hotching with salmonella or similar, nice!

DH didn't eat it in the end. Looks like I won't be catching bodily fluids tonight after all. Yippee.

oo er missus

I had salmonella when I was 19 from a KFC, since then have always OVERCOOKED all meat, esp chicken, on the basis that Eggwina Currie was not wrong when sacked for telling the truth: 'Most egg and chicken production in the UK is contaminated with salmonella'. Even at that young, strong age, I felt like grim death, immobilised for 6 days, completely dehydrated, ended up on a drip, skin peeling etc. My gut took years to heal and function properly again, and I was told I was lucky to have escaped kidney damage. I never take any chances with poultry, even in relatively safe France, it's not worth it ... :(

I've had a similar issue with chicken tonight - bought leg thighs, skinned and boned from Morrisons on Saturday, in date till 4th March. Cooked it tonight, and although it had that funny packety smell when first opened, I cooked it in lemon juice and pepper, went to eat it and it just didn't taste right or smell right, but everyone else thought it was fine, so I left mine they ate theirs. Now I have bellyache and am fearing the worst! eek

I suspected a gas leak in my kitchen not long ago...everytime I opened the cupboard beside the fridge I could smell gas.

Plumber quickly identified the smell as rotten chicken in the fridge. It was in date and wrapped in a carrier bag which was masking the worst of the smell - when we peeled that off to investigate !! That's sick not envy by the way!

Took days and days to get rid of the smell completely and I disinfected the fridge and cupboards.

Phoned tesco to tell them that I was throwing the chicken away (thankfully bin was being emptied that day) but would save the wrapper. No way was I holding onto smelly rotten chicken for another couple of days!

Auntpolly your dh is barking mad, what he would rather take 5 days off wasting money,not to mention the havoc it plays on your body for the sake of not wasting off chicket . If that were my chicken it would go straight in da bin.

My DP is from Yorkshire and thinks use by dates are gospel and food goes off at midnight on the date stated. He would never eat a stinky chicken.

How did it go, OP? Did DH eat it and is he still on the toilet?

How much money will he loose if he is off work with food poisening ? more than £9 I reckon