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WTAF???? DH has just done this...

331 replies

ArsenalsPlayingAtHome · 24/04/2017 16:33

I know I am NBU but I just need to see if everyone else would be as fuming as I am.

DH has just picked DCs up from school. Last night DH cooked delicious roast chicken dinner. He was in charge of clearing up afterwards. There were two chicken pieces which he left on the hob in the roasting tin. I thought he was going to give them to the dog.

DD aged 7yrs has just come upto me and told me that she's just eaten two pieces of chicken and it was delicious!

I've checked...DH didn't heat up the chicken, which has been on the top of the hob in our warm kitchen, *(ie not in the fridge) for approximately 10 hours.

I thought she'd just swiped them, but no, DH gave them her to eat. FFS!

OP posts:
Oysterbabe · 24/04/2017 17:00

This is such a non issue.

PeaFaceMcgee · 24/04/2017 17:00

You are all twats Grin

Room temperature bacterial growth on cooked chicken rises to potentially dangerous levels after approx 4 hours.

Catrina1234 · 24/04/2017 17:01

I think there's far too much fuss about this sort of thing these days. As someone said, what happened before people had fridges - they certainly didn't throw food away nor did they die or get ill. I got campylobacter (like salmonella) from chicken but think it was from a chinese take away so I am a bit fussy now about chicken.

My uncle was a food scientist and he used to heat up pork pie in the oven if it had been hanging around for a few days. They didn't have a fridge, ate everything and never got ill.

PeaFaceMcgee · 24/04/2017 17:02

You would all happily eat cooked meat in a restaurant that had been sitting on the side unrefrigerated all night and all day? No you fucking wouldn't and the place would be shut down by the food standards agency.

Huskylover1 · 24/04/2017 17:03

So it's been sat in a warm kitchen for almost 24 hours? No way would I touch that with a barge pole. And why is she eating that so close to dinner (unless that was her dinner). We went to a Christening once, and the food was prepared by the hosts before the Christening and left out on the table. Probably sat there for 2-3 hours tops. Everyone was sick. It was a warm sunny day though.

sticklebrix · 24/04/2017 17:04

She'll probably be fine but I'd be annoyed too as it's v poor food hygiene.

My DGM was a stickler about food hygiene, use by dates and refrigerating food. We used to tease her but she'd reply that could remember the days before fridges and good hygiene when people used to get ill.

user1471462115 · 24/04/2017 17:04

Well, I wouldn't eat chicken that has been warm for all this time.

I work on the same rules as a food business needs to, and cooked meat needs to either be eaten within four hours

Or cooled in two hours and then refrigerated

I really hope you people don't ever get a bad bought of salmonella food poisoning. It is really awful and a totally avoidable experience.

Choccyhobnob · 24/04/2017 17:05

Not ideal but I wouldn't make a big fuss about it. DH left an entire roast chicken out all night as it was too hot for the fridge then he forgot. I wasn't best pleased but stuck it in the fridge in the morning and we ate it for the next couple of days, it was fine.

PeaFaceMcgee · 24/04/2017 17:05

what happened before people had fridges

They had larders, cold areas or just ate cooked food straight away.

Eating unrefrigerated cooked meat at room temp is not the same as blitzing a pork pie to kill any bugs.

Mummyoflittledragon · 24/04/2017 17:08

PeaFace. The kid has partaken of said diseased meat. It's very unlikely she'll be ill as long as it was thoroughly re cooked. It is just as dangerous to eat certain meats and rice, which has been reheated and not recooked. There is a 2 hour rule with restaurants, isn't there?

alleypalley · 24/04/2017 17:08

Most likely she will be fine; but the number of people on MN who appear to play fast and loose with food safety does amaze me. Cooked chicken is a high risk food and it should be stored appropriately. There was a case on the news a few years back of a pub where a number of customers got food poisoning on Christmas day, and one died, due to them eating turkey that had been cooked the day before and then left over night in the kitchen as there was no space in the fridges. The manager and chef went to prison for it. I realise the details are different and a large bird would take longer to cool then a few pieces but still food poisoning can be serious.

FrenchJunebug · 24/04/2017 17:09

YABU. She'll be fine. What do you think will happen?!

CotswoldStrife · 24/04/2017 17:10

It wasn't reheated, recooked or refridgerated since it was cooked yesterday Mummyoflittledragon

Yellowcups · 24/04/2017 17:11

Please tell me it was covered? If she's sick that will be why. Flies etc

PeaFaceMcgee · 24/04/2017 17:14

It's very unlikely she'll be ill as long as it was thoroughly re cooked

It wasn't reheated. It was eaten at the same room temp it had been languishing and breeding bacteria in since yesterday tea time.

Mummyoflittledragon · 24/04/2017 17:20

I see. I missed that. I just assumed no one would be silly enough to do that. Just reread the op.

gluteustothemaximus · 24/04/2017 17:20

No way would I eat that.

Bacteria grows fastest at room temperature.

Within 2 hours you would need to discard it.

Bacteria doubles every 20 minutes.

Also, a fridge doesn't stop bacteria growing, just slows it down.

DixieFlatline · 24/04/2017 17:22

Thank god some sensible people arrived on the thread. Fucking hell.

user1493035447 · 24/04/2017 17:23

Have you ever got a kebab on the way home from the clubs, left it on the counter, gone to bed, woken up at 5pm the following afternoon and eaten it? And are you still here? Yup, she'll be fine.

MsGameandWatch · 24/04/2017 17:24

Some of you have extremely grim food hygiene habits. I cannot believe that people would eat cooked meat that had been out on the side for 2-3 days 😩

I've done a number of food hygiene courses and that chicken would have gone in the bin if it realised it had been out that long. Hope she's ok OP.

PeaFaceMcgee · 24/04/2017 17:25

Nobody's saying she'll likely die, user - and no, I wouldn't do the above as it's totally minging.

user1493035447 · 24/04/2017 17:27

Oh, I'm sorry, I must have misunderstood the problem. If she's not going to die what is the problem?

Nairsmellsbad · 24/04/2017 17:28

It's not good and YANBU, but it's done now and she probably won't get sick. Google some bacteria stats on food hygiene and stand over DH while he reads them

ChrisYoungFuckingRocks · 24/04/2017 17:30

When I cook a roast chicken I often leave the leftovers in the roasting tin on the stove top, and the DC pick at it when they get home from school. I did so last night. Nobody's ever gotten sick from it.

Actually I'd be more worried that he was going to feed cooked chicken bones to the dog. The only chicken bone a dog shouldn't eat is the thin sharp one in the drumstick Worra. I've always given my dogs chicken bones and nothing's ever happened to them. Now turkey bones - that's a big no no.

Believeitornot · 24/04/2017 17:31

Chicken is notorious for causing food poisoning. cooking doesn't necessarily kill all the bacteria and leaving it at room temp just gives the chance for bacteria to multiply again.

So I'd be pissed off if my DH took the risk.