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to not eat chicken casserole left out overnight?

92 replies

tumpymummy · 15/04/2017 18:50

Help! We have just arrived at MIL's house for Easter weekend. She is getting dinner ready which is a chicken casserole. However she has just said that she made the casserole yesterday and has left it on the hob for 24 hours! Hubby asked why she hadn't put it in the fridge after making it? She says it was because she couldn't lift the pan (too heavy with casserole in) and that it will be fine!!! I dont think it will and would never normally eat chicken that hasn't been refridgerated. I have said to hubby that I am not happy eating it, but he says we have to so as not to offend her after she has been to all this trouble. She also had the heating on today so it's not as though her kitchen has been cool all day. What do I do?!

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Trb17 · 15/04/2017 18:52

I could be wrong but I'm sure chicken doesn't have very long at room temperature, especially after cooling down from hot? I wouldn't eat it myself.

Brokejoke · 15/04/2017 18:52

I would eat it (if I ate chicken). But my mum always used to cook stuff and leave it on the hob and we'd eat it the next day and even the day after... I'm surprised none of us ever got food poisoning but we really didn't.

ScarletForYa · 15/04/2017 18:52

No way would I eat that. I'm pretty easy going about these kinds of things but no.

Awkward.

EffinElle · 15/04/2017 18:53

Yanbu, salmonella city bleurgh!

PinkHeartLovesPink · 15/04/2017 18:54

I've made chicken curry before, had too much wine forgot to put it in the fridge and had it the next day. Meh I'm still alive with no ill effects

I'd eat it

BillyDaveysDaughter · 15/04/2017 18:54

Oh no, awkward. I would feel very uneasy eating that, but I am emetophobic and thus very paranoid.

Purplepeonies · 15/04/2017 18:55

My mil is bad for this type of thing too. I usually pick at it and don't eat much but wish I had the balls to say something tbh!

kingscrossnoodle · 15/04/2017 18:55

I have a friend who leaves stuff out until next day all the time. She hasn't died yet.

Me on the other hand wouldn't tough it with someone else's mouth Envy [sick]

JustCallMeKate · 15/04/2017 18:56

I wouldn't eat it. Bleugh

NeedABumChange · 15/04/2017 18:58

IF it was heated up for an hour or so I'd eat it.

ellencherry · 15/04/2017 18:59

Disgusting. No thanks. Do you have any snacks I your bag?

Trifleorbust · 15/04/2017 19:00

Provided it was reheated thoroughly I wouldn't worry. I've never had food poisoning and I'm sure my own sins are greater than that Blush

TheStoatIsStoatallyDifferent · 15/04/2017 19:02

As long as it's heated up properly I'd eat it.

LostMyDotBrain · 15/04/2017 19:03

My parents are bad for this. My stepdad actually claimed the other day that rice can be left out for 24 hours safely. He's not normally a stupid man. I call them out on it every time to make sure they know not to feed DD anything they've left out for ages. I'd definitely not eat day old chicken. I'd claim I was ill if I was worried about offending.

Emphasise · 15/04/2017 19:04

I'd eat it. I quite often leave a casserole out overnight - it's still too warm to go in the fridge at bedtime

Emphasise · 15/04/2017 19:05

How did people manage before fridges? Surely meat could be kept 24hrs?

GloriaGilbert · 15/04/2017 19:08

I'd eat it, but give it a good zap first.

I'd tell myself, in your shoes, that her heating is on a timer and her kitchen was probably cool overnight. Wink

Honeybee79 · 15/04/2017 19:09

I would eat it it.

As Empathise has said, presumably before fridges people did this. Unless it's a very hot summer's day/heating on on full blast it should be fine.

I make a chicken broth using a carcass. We eat most of it that evening, but I leave it on the hob and eat the rest of it the following day too, albeit normally at lunchtime.

LostMyDotBrain · 15/04/2017 19:09

Heating it kills the bacteria, not the toxins that the bacteria have spent 24 hours shitting out onto the food.

Beeziekn33ze · 15/04/2017 19:10

Emphasise - no central heating so a cooler house and often a cool larder before most people got fridges.

Ragwort · 15/04/2017 19:12

I'd eat it too, as others have said, how did people cope before fridges? it is only relatively recently that having a fridge is the 'norm' - and loads of people throughout the world don't have fridges.

AwaywiththePixies27 · 15/04/2017 19:12

I wouldn't eat it either. Then again exdh used to do this sort of thing all the time and appeared to have a cast iron stomach.

Crispbutty · 15/04/2017 19:12

I'm a chef and in my own home I would eat it. If it's been in an airtight container so no flies have been near it.

It will be fine.

AwaywiththePixies27 · 15/04/2017 19:14

Then again when I was younger I remember there was nothing better than mums beef stew that had been 'left on the hob'. Left on but not still cooking. It somehow always tasted better when reheated.

Abraiid2 · 15/04/2017 19:14

If the house is not over warm I would eat it.