Mums lost the plot

[Madeyemoodysmum]

Ffs. Just spoke to my mum and she is planning on half cooking the turkey now and finishing it off tomorrow. I told her you can't do this with poultry.

Aibu to not let my family eat it tomz.

She has lost it!!!!
I'm right aren't I???

I wonder if there was higher immunity then as well as a different attitude to risk?

More likely the houses where cooler,no central heating.Things bought and eaten soon after.The risk was there but times have changed.

OMG I remember that Basin, it was one of those buffet roast lunches, wasn't it?

My MIL used to sear a joint of beef in saucepan on the cooker, leave it sitting overnight then cook it the next day, when challenged 'it never killed anyone' so we just avoided it!

My sister's godmother, an elderly retired obstetrician and spinster, was always referred to as Dr Salmonella in our home, because this was the sort of thing she'd do.

She's also keep Chinese takeaway leftovers (including rice) to reheat and eat over a period of days.

She had the constitution of an ox and died after a short illness at 95.

I think that people used to cook their turkeys for about a hundred hours, so what they thought was half cooked and then finishing it off was probably already entirely incinerated and sawdust inside after the first days cooking.

I keep Chinese leftovers in the fridge to reheat - it hasn't made me ill yet.

Half cooked turkey is bonkers though. I nagged at DH earlier because he left sausages and bacon in the car for an hour whilst doing his rounds!

I'm not sure stratters but if I recall correctly it was standard practice in the pub chain to half cook all of the turkeys in one place and then ship them out to all the pubs who would finish them off on site.

Cannot even begin to imagine who signed off on that being the done thing.

Mouldy cheese/reheated leftovers is COMPLETELY different to half cooking a turkey!! Even defrosting stuff on the side is fine provided you cook it promptly and make sure it's piping hot all the way through.

You can eat beef raw. You cannot fuck about with poultry.

As someone said earlier on this thread, I think she's always done this and you just didn't know about it before.

General rule

Hard foods - it's generally safe to cut off the mould and carry on. Cheddar cheese.

Soft foods - unless it's a soft cheeses, bin it. Bread.

Half cooking meat and finishing off the cooking later? Hell, no!

I cut mould off cheese, and spoon it off yoghurt or jam which I often forget are in the fridge when necessary.

I have a cast iron stomach (and probably only about three tastebuds left due to abusing them with Very Hot Curry), but I am only 63 and may poison myself yet.

Well we have eaten and no one feels ill yet. She said she cooked it through after I spoke to her. 8 hours since dinner. Fingers crossed 😀
And merry Christmas