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.

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Your dh is absolutely utterly batshit daft wanting to eat that chicken! He is asking for big trouble

Why would anybody risk that rather than "waste" a chicken that was already poisonous??

I'm a veggie so don't know much about chicken, but it sounds like a bad idea. I hope he's OK!

Am I missing something here? OP is claiming she is busy with small DCs and husband is an adult so he can eat what he wants. How much more busier will she be if DH becomes ill, possibly seriously so? And he doesn't sound much like an adult to me, maybe a 15 year old boy?

I wouldn't give anything like that to a cat or dog as they can't really chose their food and tend to eat crap, so its up to responsible owners to not be twats and deliberately feed it to them for a laugh.

Yup I'm pretty lax with food hygiene at times but that would have gone straight in the bin...can't believe he ate it!

Hope he is ok...

If it makes you feel any better at all..... which it won't as I'm too late.....my then 20 year old daughter came home drunk after a night out and ate a whole pack of uncooked chicken goujons . I honestly her at work and asked if she had eaten them as the empty packet was by her bed. She said she had and that they were lovely but apologised in case I had wanted them for something else.

For two days I waited for her to get ill but she was fine, our GP said it was probably the vodka that saved her....it must have sterilised the meat in her stomach.
She's never eaten chicken since, although it hasn't put her off vodka.

Shall we start taking bets on how long before he gets sick i'm not place marking, oh no I'm not ?

I had campylobacter earlier this year, the only thing I ate that no one else had was some beetroot. Please be aware OP that you can catch it from him, he will need to be scrupulous about cleaning the loo and hand hygiene. The main reason my Gp thought I hadn't infected the DCs was that I had used a separate loo to everyone else...

On the plus side he will have the joy of trying to shit in a tiny sample pot.

LadyFarnborough that's pretty much what I did too! I'd literally just given birth to DS too about a week before hand and was BFing. I remember shouting to the Ex at one point to call an ambulance I felt that ill.

OP I think most food poisoning is pretty instant (in my experience anyway) so if he is poorly you should see signs soon. Hopefully they'll be no signs and the lucky sod will sleep through it.

To a PP, apologies, I cant remember your username, I'm sorry to read about your DN.

Dh had campylobacter nearly 3 years ago from some takeaway sushi. He still takes daily medication to help with where his stomach lining was eroded...why would anyone take that risk??

I hope you have two toilets.

I also hope he's ok.

I hope you have him insured.

And he does know that by waiving your advice to bin it, he gets not a single shred of sympathy for his self inflicted poisoning.

Oh God as if he actually ate it..... not shamelessly place marking at all

Prepare yourself!

I am shocked. Hope your dh is okay

Blatantly place marking. I hope he's ok, but I fear you will need to have the Dettol handy!

Sorry OP but I don't think this will end well. I wouldn't have eaten it if it had been in the fridge since Thursday but I am pretty paranoid about food and hand hygiene having had norovirus a few times.

I am astounded you didn't just bin it rather than posting here. I am afraid if I had a 3 day old chicken I wouldn't allow anyone to eat it, let alone touch the bloody thing.

Time "I could bore you with details of the various different bacteria and how they cause illness"

I'm interested. The chicken was cooked on Thursday and left in a warm oven, it's now Sunday therefore I'm assuming the chicken was in the oven for 96 hours approx. Bloody hell, some amount of bacteria must have multiplied in that time?

Wow, I'm quite lax on food stuffs but even I wouldn't have touched that chicken with a barge pole!

I really hope your DH is ok, or maybe not to teach him a lesson.

How much did he eat? I mean there's sandwiches and sandwiches... Hoping for your DH's sake that he was sparing in the amount he used and might get away with it. Food poisoning is not funny (had it twice, never want to experience it again!)

I hope he is OK. I think he was selfish. It's common sense that this isn't appropriate. Who will look after him if he's ill and when he is spraying his food poisoning germs everywhere - will that affect you and your child?

Hmm. I mean it is a bit dodgy, but maybe he has a valid point about it having been in a sterile environment for three days? Assuming the chicken got hot enough to kill any bacteria lurking in there.

I'm intrigued. I have no doubt that he is going to vomit, I'll bet on him waking in the night. Good luck OP!

If we're taking bets, I bet a quid he will be fine.

Most people here seem to think that chicken is fundamentally toxic. Mostly it is not.

If 100 people licked raw chicken (a different chicken for each person) only about 1 or 2 would get ill. Which means 98 or 99 would be OK, and that's before it's cooked.

Jesus I feel anxious just reading this thread never mind being in the actual situation itself! I'm militant over things like this (emetephobe) but fuck me that's brave (aka idiotic)

Place marking anyway...

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