To potentially make DH very ill?

[Sleepybunny]

I realise there is a similar themed thread here, must be food hygiene day.

Anyway, I cooked a chicken on Thursday afternoon. Switched the oven off when it was ready and left it in there (one of those cook in the bag ALDI special bad boys).

We went away for the weekend and I totally forgot about it until now.

AIBU to test it on DH to see if it's edible? DH things it probably is, so is sort of consenting. He's also left his bastarding socks on the floor next to the laundry basket again, for me to collect and wash presumably. As such, I feel his life is expendable at the moment.

Answers on a postcard

He's surprisingly still alive. A few deadly farts, but nothing to report.

I'm wondering how this is possible! My theory is, he ate breast meat only and discarded the skin, and isn't the skin the main source of any bacteria? Maybe he got lucky??

Got lucky I would think!

Cast iron stomach

Some food borne illnesses take up to 21 days to cause symptoms.
Putting his body under pressure to fight the bugs/toxins he ate also leaves him vulnerable to other infections and damage.

He's not out of the woods yet.

ha! MNers so disappointed that he's fine.

He's still bloody stupid though.

Took 2 weeks for the horrendous food poisoning I got from shellfish to show. Everyone else was ill and recovered within 48 hours, somehow I hung onto it and it brewed into something far worse. I was ill for a good 8 weeks :(

I bet he didn't actually eat it. I think he just told the OP he ate it to prove a point.

Stratter some MNetters cannot stand to be wrong. Their frustration is transparent on this thread

Still think this is made up

One of the great misunderstandings I have seen in this thread is the idea that bacteria are all floating around contaminating things. There will be a few in the air (carried on dust particles or water droplets), but the bag and the oven would provide a reasonable barrier. Most food poisoning is caused by undercooked meat or contaminated hands / utensils / insects etc which involve direct physical contact.

Similarly, unless the chicken physically touched something in your fridge, it is unlikely much cross-contamination occurred. The reason raw meat should be stored on a plate / low down is so other food is not contaminated by drips.

Unless you handled the chicken after cooking or a fly crawled on it, then so long as the food-poisoning bacteria were destroyed during cooking (campylobacter, for example, is easily destroyed by heating) it may well be that those bacteria that DID remain, were ones that didn't grow so well at room temperature, and / or did not produce toxins that would make you ill.

I still would not have risked it as the benefit / risk ratio doesn't seem worth it for the price of a chicken, but there was some quite extreme hysteria on this thread. Common sense suggests that there are parts of the world where hygiene standards are very poor, yet the vast majority of people remain healthy much of the time.

I work in meat inspection incidentally. What you should be asking is why campylobacter contamination is so high in British chicken. I work in Norway, where less than 10% of raw chicken is contaminated. Two thirds of the chicken in the UK is contaminated. Much better to control it before it ever reaches your kitchen.

Just catching up on this thread Reckless parent Endangering his kids mumsnet is a laugh isn't it. Glad he's ok OP I'd have chucked the chicken but my dh would have eaten it probably after testing it on the dog.

So did the chicken eventually cause havoc as predicted? I need to know!

For those who care, nope no mass outbreak of diarrhoea. The children are safe and the NHS had been spared.
A valuable lesson in pigheadedness and ignorance has been learned.
Truly has been an education on my part, the responses have been interesting. I really didn't think it was that bad a thing and at worse he could get a bit ill.

Thanks for letting us know, OP. I'm glad that the doom-mongers' predictions came to nothing and no one came to any harm. (Although Stratter's shellfish story shows that you can blame almost anything on anything if you try hard enough.)