AIBU to refuse to eat chicken defrosted this way?

[SleepRefugee]

My MIL tends to buy big packs of 6 chicken breasts, but rarely cooks more than 1 or 2 at a time.

So, the remainder of the open pack (just open, no fresh layer of clingfilm or anything) is put in the freezer and then defrosted by leaving it on a sunny window sill from morning to evening (again, not covered and no plate underneath).

Surely this is just asking for food poisoning? Or am I being too precious, as my MIL likes to imply ("never did anybody any harm", after all...)?

Not it's not into the same post as i like to brown my meat first.

Mind you, I get everything out at the beginning, including a hot washing-up bowl, and do all the putting away at the end with clean hands, so that probably makes a difference.

Op I think the chicken witself would be fine, but it sounds to me that her kitchen is at risk of being contamiinated by any bugs on the chicken.

So the dinner itself (ironically) is probably fine, but fresh food from the same kitchen might be risky...

YABU. We're so stringent about chicken because of campylobacter, which is very common in supermarket chicken. However, it's easily killed by thorough heating. It doesn't really matter where your food has been, so long as when you eat it it's been cooked above the magic 67 degrees c. This is the temperature proven to kill all bacteria.

Sushi is much more dangerous than this

As wilting just pointed out, the other food in her kitchen is probably more at risk from the raw chicken than anything else.

I had good poisoning from chicken but it wasn't chicken I ate. I'd sliced up a breast to cook for an order at work and had left the board out. Shortly after, someone else made me a prawn mayo baguette. Not long after that I started to feel a little odd. Whilst tidying up the kitchen, I gave the meat board a good scrub, followed by a blast in the dishwasher. I noticed (but didn't really take in the fact) that there were breadcrumbs on it...

Much throwing up later, I did take some of the responsibility upon myself. I should have moved it, I should have made sure the girl knew what not to do. Still, we live, we learn. Amazing your MiL has made it to her 80s without something similar!