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

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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:
PeaFaceMcgee · 24/04/2017 22:08

I wonder how often people fail to identify they have food poisoning and may blame it on a tummy bug instead (as the incubation period is so variable).

foxyloxy78 · 24/04/2017 22:49

Your husband cooked last night and collected kids from school today and you're complaining about him giving them cold cooked chicken Confused. They will be fine.

Astro55 · 24/04/2017 22:53

I also cooked tea washed up for the kids (and didn't feed them left out chicken)

Does that make me mother of the year?

C0RA · 24/04/2017 22:56

I would not do this and I'd be angry at DH for doing so.

Crapuccino · 24/04/2017 22:59

Astro55: eat your words

Were they stored at room temperature? GrinWink

Astro55 · 24/04/2017 23:06

Yes - yes they were 😜

PyongyangKipperbang · 24/04/2017 23:36

I wonder how often people fail to identify they have food poisoning and may blame it on a tummy bug instead

My mother does the opposite. She will blame the well cooked and stored chicken or pork she had 2 weeks ago "because it takes a while to incubate!" rather than the bug the kids got from school and she got from the kids......

Yes there is a risk with the chicken and I wouldnt have fed it to her, but chances are she will be fine. A 30% risk (say) of getting food poisoning means a 70% chance of not getting it.

user1493035447 · 25/04/2017 06:32

Do you leave your heating on overnight or does it cool down? I know my place is cool at night. Do you normally have flies buzzing around the kitchen? Do you live in Africa or something? The NHS is wrong, there's no way you can get food poisoning weeks later. Do the germ bugs lie dormant in your tummy? It just doesn't make sense, there's no way I could identify a dodgy meal 5 or 6 weeks later. Lot of drivel on this thread by folk with OCD. Bet a lot of folk don't let their kids near a garden in case they get harmful germ bugs from the earth.

user1493035447 · 25/04/2017 06:34

I wonder if he ate some chicken that was left in a fly infested kitchen overnight Easter Smile www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39700952

sucue · 25/04/2017 06:42

I'm pretty slack with all sorts of things, but food poisoning isn't something I want to play Russian roulette with. Easy enough to put food in the fridge.

lizzyj4 · 25/04/2017 07:34

user1493035447 - wow, so you know better than the NHS and anyone who doesn't agree with you has OCD? Do you spread your immense knowledge of food safety and public health to friends and family too? Hopefully they don't listen.

Being out in a garden is not at all the same as recklessly feeding chicken to children after it has been left uncovered in a warm room for many hours. If you wanted to give people food poisoning, this would be a good way to go it.

user1493035447 · 25/04/2017 07:46

I'm pretty sure if I wanted to give someone food poisoning, I'd probably smear human waste on the food Lizzy. The NHS doesn't get it right all the time. They're there to make people better, they're not experts in the kitchen.

SuperMoonIsKeepingMeUpToo · 25/04/2017 07:52

To user1493035447: have my first Biscuit

In order to understand health, the NHS really doesn't have to worry its little head about what causes disease, does it, now?

Just wow.

StUmbrageinSkelt · 25/04/2017 09:05

I've nursed my 14 month old through salmonella and then campylobacter. He was very very very ill and came very close to dying.

He has ongoing severe food intolerances (is reliant on elemental formula at the age of 19 years) and his gut is utterly trashed requiring a stoma.

Nobody is saying definitively that the salmonella and its neurological sequelae caused what is going on but every specialist we have seen is willing to say that they are sure the salmonella has played a longterm role in his poor outcomes. Before the salmonella he was a normally developing baby.

He caught it by eating cat food as far as we could work out.

Just not worth the risk especially when it's your kid...

C0RA · 25/04/2017 09:15

St umbrage - I'm so sorry to read this about your son

DontPullThatTubeOut · 25/04/2017 10:41

I wouldn't do it myself but then I'm paranoid about dates etc, thanks to a nan who didn't believe things went out of date and made you eat it anyway Hmm. However, she will be fine, it was cooked and only left out for one night so all should be good.

BreatheDeep · 25/04/2017 10:49

This thread is gross and alarming.

user1493035447 I don't think I'll take any scientific or health advice from someone who can't even work out how to change their user name

OnGoldenPond · 25/04/2017 10:52

My GParents had no fridge.

However, they kept milk in a cool cupboard in a bucket of cold water and kept fresh food tightly wrapped in that cool cupboard, usually on a marble slab. They went food shopping daily and bought fresh meat to be eaten that day. Leftovers cooled and immediately wrapped then into the cool cupboard on marble. Eaten next day for lunch then anything still left thrown away.

They were pretty hard up, so could not afford needless waste.

MrsFarm · 25/04/2017 10:57

Whats the problem? It was cooked chicken, she will be fine...Jesus, over reacting much?

MusicToMyEars800 · 25/04/2017 11:19

I do this all the time and my dcs and dp eat it, I cook chicken for my dps work lunch and leave it on the cooker all night still in the pan and then chop it up in the morning and put it in a wrap for his lunch, None of us have got ill from it, so I am sure she will be fine Smile

Lweji · 25/04/2017 11:28

This is what I find funny.
"Someone got food poisoning from eating cat food/poorly cooked chicken/several times reheated food/whatever not the same as the OP, so I wouldn't eat your perfectly safe cooked chicken just left overnight on the counter"

BreatheDeep · 25/04/2017 11:34

"I do that all the time, I'm sure it will be fine"

Yes, she probably will be fine but there is a chance she won't be. To safely store cooked meat it should be kept at/below 4 degrees. There is science behind this. If it's not kept this way there is a chance it will be contaminated and you risk getting food poisoning.

Lweji · 25/04/2017 11:43

The fridge is indeed best for long time storage, but for less than 24 hours it's fine.
Particularly with a dry surface.

PeaFaceMcgee · 25/04/2017 11:50

Please can you post a link to your peer-reviewed scientific evidence for those statements Lweji ? I would be really interested to read those studies as we could then sell our fridge and use the cash to buy more kebabs which we will half-way and then leave out on the table all night for lunch the next day. Thanks.

BreatheDeep · 25/04/2017 11:51

No, bacteria multiply very quickly at room temperature. A few hours is all that is needed to potentially make meat unsafe.

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