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

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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!

You know when people say smoking is fine because their granny smoked sixty a day and lived to one hundred, or they never wear a seat belt but it's not dangerous because they're still alive? This is the same. Just because people have not been ill doesn't mean it's safe to eat chicken left out at room temperature all night and day, it just means they got lucky.

MyLittleBoyBlue; what is the relevance of you posting about thoroughly re-heated chicken? This is not about re-heated chicken.

Just because you re-heated it and were fine has no relevance to leaving it for 20 hours at room temperature and then eating it without reheating.

'good constitution' = myth. It's luck what bugs are where. A prudent person educated in such things can make informed decisions. The DD wasn't able to and OP is nbu to be fuming about such reckless ignorance / wilful negligence.

I would be mad. But I am a bit OTT about stuff like this as I suffer emetophobia. I will be honest and say we chuck out loads of food that would probably be perfectly fine to eat sue to my ridiculous fears.

Ive eaten worse.
Okay it might not be ideal and wouldn't be in the h&s food regulations handbook but it's fine

It's not a good idea to leave meat on surfaces uncovered and unrefrigerated because insects will lay eggs on it (yum) the dog may lick it (double yuck) and if someone gives such a scant regard to hygiene storing food they are probably not washing their hands anyway so you've probably got a dose of poo gravy to go with it.

Yeah I wouldn't OP.

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.

This is a bit of a non-starter argument surely. You do a lot of things at home that you wouldn't accept from a restaurant. First one that comes to mind is (though maybe my DH is just gross )as he calls it.. 'the 5 second rule'. If you saw a chef in a hotel pick something off the floor and put it on your plate there would be hell on. Bit more lax at home. Or my family is gross. one of the two

Almost certain she will be fine unless you are living in the tropics.

SoulAccount just chatting, fairly sure it's what the site is for

How warm is this kitchen?

10 hours means not very late in the morning, so it was only over night.
I leave things to cool overnight before putting them in the fridge.

It's fine. Don't worry.

Because people never eat cooked food at room temperature when they go on picnics.

Fucks sake. I give up. Hope she's ok OP.

I do that all the time. I've had food poisoning once from dodgy duck pancakes (ie letting my drunken husband cook party snacks after a drunken NYE party and they weren't cooked right).

Never been ill from chicken left on the stove. I do live in the worlds coldest house though.

My DD ate some packet ham that had been open over a week and 6 days past its use by date. I had meant to throw it away.
She was fine.

Because people never eat cooked food at room temperature when they go on picnics. - That was my first thought, then I pondered perhaps everyone else but me had those special cooler bag things except me! I just wrap up tons of food and chuck it in a bag, egg sandwiches, chicken sandwiches, all sat next to me for a good few hours in the sun before I eat them. Sometimes I'll save one to scoff on the way home, by which point it can be anything up to 12hrs later I am NOT suggesting anyone else do this by the way.

You don't need freezer bags - freeze a 1/3 bottle of pop and top it up - keeps it all fresh

Gross. If it makes you feel better, my nan used to cook 2 chicken breasts and leave one on a plate in a cupboard for the following evening

I think you are lucky to have a husband who will cook family meals for you.

FFS

The bacteria will probably still be in 'lag phase' and there won't be enough bugs to make her ill.

Bacteria usually don't like dry environments.

Roast chicken pieces that haven't been disturbed will be surrounded by a dry (crispy) surface where bacteria or mould will find it difficult to grow. The inside will have been sterilised by cooking.

Quite different from fresh (moist) meat.

If it helps, then my three year old dd are a chicken nugget last week that she shouldn't have. It had been in the car for four days in the heat. I hadn't realised I'd left it in there after our picnic! She was fine.

If it was properly cooked only last night, I'm sure it'll be fine.

I wouldn't have given it a second thought, TBH, not unless I thought it hadn't been thoroughly cooked.

I grew up eating Sunday's chicken which had been left in the oven to go cold for Monday tea - never ill from it

In America the advice is to throw out all cooked food left out of the fridge for more than two hours because the bacteria can release toxins.

It seems that we're generally very lax when it comes to refrigerating food.

And I'm a stickler for hygiene. I only handle fresh chicken meat with utensils, as much as I can, that go straight into the dishwasher.

Sure, be as careful as you can be in general, but in this case, I don't think there's much to worry about.