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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Literally cannot believe he ate it! Stockpile the hand gel and loo roll now!

You've got to keep us updated!

And can I just say- he's a grown adult he can choose what he feeds himself. He's just as capable as OP at putting spoiled food in the bin etc and OP don't feel like you need to look after him when the poonami hits- he's got a great big "I told you so" coming his way!

(Seriously though, hope he doesn't die).

Shamelessly placemarking. Either he'll be fine, or they'll use him for food safety training videos.

I don't think you can get campylobacter from a rotting cooked chicken. Campy will have been baked dead.
But some other bug could be happily breeding away.

If he wants to rescue it, he needs to break it into chunks, freeze the bits NOW and then see IF he's still fine tomorrow afternoon. Then you can thaw out chunks as you need. (to feed to the DH or some other adventurer). Leaving it out for another 12-24 hours is not going to make it safer.

Not at all place marking - just want to say hope your Dh will be ok.

Anyone else feeling slightly 😷 reading this or is it just me?

Lmao Place marking and waiting for shit to hit the fan literally in your DH case

I have eaten ham thats not been in the fridge days after it was cooked... but then it was in the cellar in a country where it was -20c at the time and the cellar was as cold as a fridge so you know...

I would not have eaten that chicken and I would not have let anyone else either. Food poisoning can actually kill you if you get it bad enough.

Placemarking. Hope he's ok but tbh he deserves not to be!

He ate it 😯😯😯😯

Fingers crossed it was a stingy sandwich and he gets away with a mild dose of the squits.

I made cottage pie on Friday, put the leftovers in the oven after I dished up meaning to transfer it to the fridge when it cooled. I forgot about it until today and I wouldn't even eat that. It went in the bin.

I think there is a good chance he will be ok.

But I would not have touched that chicken with a barge pole, it's not worth it for the sake of a few quid!

Oh Lordy.

I bet he's absolutely fine just to spite everyone.

I think some people on here are clenching a bit too hard. Those that say they wouldn't have eaten it even if it had been in the fridge since Thursday. Body coach and body builders prepare and cook their meals for a week in advance (well, not all of them obviously, but it's common), and they eat mainly chicken for the protein, so surely chicken is ok in the fridge in a Tupperware box for up to 6/7 days?

Anyway, he'll probably be fine once he gets over the shits. I had food poisoning from KFC once, it was literally a very shitty 3 days, and I couldn't eat KFC for years afterwards but apart from that I was fine.

I might have picked it all off and frozen it, with the theory that freezing kills bacteria, but I would not have eaten it as your DH did and I am the slackest of slack arses with regards to food hygiene!

Urgh! I got campylobacter from cooked chicken livers (as in, cooked and served immediately). I passed out with the fever, couldn't stand up straight for a fortnight and lost 1.5 stones. It was horrible - and I am one of those 'relaxed' types, widely travelled, rarely I'll despite eating all sorts. I hope you and the kids are ok and that he survives dickhead

Just put of interest, assuming that the chicken is now riddled with bacteria, would heating it to a high temperature before eating have reduced the chances of OP's DH being hospitalised by any significant amount?

You'll need to throw the chicken to make way for the loo roll in the fridge !!

Freezing doesn't kill bacteria, it just slows it right down so it multiplies very slowly. It would be no help whatsoever in this situation.

Oh and I had chicken salad tonight made with chicken I cooked on weds ( we went out on Friday and Saturday) It has been in the fridge. I wouldn't have thought twice about it if I hadn't come across this thread and so many people saying they wouldn't eat 3 day old refrigerated chicken....

Crikey. Why take the risk for a £6 chicken?

I have a fairly relaxed attitude to food hygiene and even I wouldn't have entertained the idea for a second.

I wouldn't eat meat I'd cooked and left in the fridge after 2 days. I'm gobsmacked people would eat it after 5 days! FFS even the mumsnet chicken doesn't last that long!

Yuuucck

Bloody hell!

I'm really gung ho about use by dates and re heating and stuff left out of the fridge.

I wouldn't have eaten that chicken. That warmth, for that period of time would have activated bacteria.

As you say, the garlic might have masked the warning smell.

Fascinated to hear update.

Good luck OP!

If you read the instructions on the packet - you would see that it is not safe to eat. You cook it and eat. Any leftovers go in the bin.