Or am I about to poison my family?

[theblessedDJ]

Help! Cooked the turkey on Christmas Day, cooled, put straight in fridge and then put in freezer on Boxing Day. Took out of freezer, defrosted and made into pie yesterday along with bits of sausage, stuffing etc that had also been in freezer/fridge with turkey. I'm now reheating it (properly with meat thermometer) for tea tonight. The turkey, sausages, bacon and stuffing will have been cooked, frozen, defrosted, reheated, cooled then heated again. NHS website says not to reheat turkey more than once, this will be twice. Will we be ok? Thanks!

I wouldn't reheat meat twice, no.

It will be fine, there will be s ridiculously small chance of causing illness. The same bullshit reasoning we should not reheat baby milk, rice etc

Definite no from me.

I wouldn’t. You shouldn’t reheat meat more than once.

I wouldn't but you only live once

Not twice no. You ought to have cooked pie and eaten pie immediately. it would then have been fine.

Eeeekkk.
I've done similar. I have a pie and curry in freezer from left over turkey.

I think NHS website means don't reheat turkey that's been left in fridge (cooked). I know my DM used to give us cold turkey leftovers the next-day with full on regards with it. So cold meat, hot ready of food....

I'd reheat it...been doing it for years and never had a problem.

I'd make sure it was vhot though....the pp above wouldn't heat a takeaway the next day...would you?

I mean, you’d almost certainly be fine. But I wouldn’t want to eat it.

cook turkey (heat 1) , put in fridge, bake pie (heat 2) eat pie is fine.

cook turkey (heat 1), put in fridge, bake pie (heat 2), let pie cool, freeze pie and then defrost and reheat pie (heat 3) is a step too far by most food safety guidelines.

user no, the NHS website means don’t reheat meat twice. It’s nothing to do with storing it in next fridge.

I have no problem reheated last nights Chinese but turkey three times is a step to far.

I’d just make sure it was properly hot. It’ll be fine!

Well, I've been doing this for at least 20 years for my family because a turkey pie is absolutely essential of course, and it gets microwaved afterwards.... no-one has been ill so far! .

My cousin did similarly after their 40th anniversary, recooked the frozen leftovers a few days later
They had D&V all that week.
You don't always get away withit.

I would think that as long as it was heated to lava hot that anything nasty would be destroyed

You’ve been lucky. Others may not be.
Please don’t reheat meat more than once. It can be really risky.

Does it matter if I didn't actually reheat the turkey in stage 2? I cooked the sauces for both and then put cold turkey in (I haven't put the pastry in the pie yet...just made the mix for inside). in still going to eat eat and I'm normally v ott about food hygiene (or so I thought).

I've reheated meat more than two or three times and been fine.

We make stew and leave it out on the hob for days, reheating the whole pot a couple of times a day at least. Never been sick.

We eat leftover, unrefrigerated rice too. Still not sick.

I'm sure rice poisoning is bad, but vanishingly rare.

Reading stuff on here you'd think if you didn't stick to NHS advice, poisoning was absolutely guaranteed.

Not in a million years should you do that. So dangerous.

How dangerous is it really? If it is heated to piping hot then what would make you ill?

I wouldn’t risk my health or that of my family.
If the sauce was cold when the defrosted turkey etc went in then fine. If it was hot then I wouldn’t.

Heat doesn’t kill everything. Or we could eat anything. Just really hot.

Surely it’ll be three times you’ve cooked it if you cook it now?

Absolutely fine to reheat once- eg, cook, eat, chill leftovers. Freeze. Defrost. Heat once more and then eat.

Otherwise how would you ever freeze bolognese or curry etc.

But not make a pie with leftovers, chill and then reheat again no

It’s a definite no from me.

Absolutely no way.