To use the cooked Christmas Eve ham in a recipe today?

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It's slim pickings in the Nordic fridge.

Looks fine but don't want to kill anyone.

Creamy pasta sauce? With mushroom, leeks, whatever you have lying around?

That link is to an American website. Their food is VERY different from ours.

The smell if it's off thing is a bit misleading. Not all nasties smell.
For me, 2-3 days in the fridge max.

If you're determined to cook it and run the risk off poisoning, I'd suggest not reheating the rice properly to ensure a proper job of making everyone ill. It will smell perfectly but have lots of lovely spores.

We have the car test here. If she turns her nose up.at something, it's off

Cat not car!

I'm.planning on eating our Boxing Day ham today. Yesterday we had the last of the Christmas Day chicken for lunch. We're all fine.

I am in Sweden and obviously DH's family insisted on a Jul skinka the size of a whole arse. Our christmas eve cooked and refrigerated ham was taken to work in sandwiches by DH today and later on I am making pizzas for the kids and some of will go on the top.

That FSA page is excellent - very comprehensive. Based on their guidance, our leftover ham is now unsafe.

I'm studying food safety in uni. I'm nowhere near an expert which is why I said look up FSA guidance. However I do know that most of you are fucking mad! Hope you listened to Wolfie
You carry on with this attitude towards food safety and one day it WILL bite you on the arse. Particularly vulnerable are children, elderly and immunosuppressed. So while being gung ho now might be fine it won't always be the case.

Still eating ours as long as it looks and smells OK

I've also trained in food safety and there is NO WAY I would risk that!!!! I'm with Wolfie.

“Yes you can smell if something is truly rancid or see mould. But not everything that can make you unwell can be smelt or seen.”

This ^^

“Use your nose - far more reliable than comments on here”

See above Seniorcitizen1 . Bacterial spoilage is obvious, and makes food smell bad. Not all food that is unsafe to eat suffers from bacterial spoilage. Some foods develop toxins that have no smell and are resistant to heat.

These threads always bring out the “it has never happened to me” posters. Ignore them.

I’d eat it. DH finished ours off yesterday in a sandwich.

It’s good in risotto with peas.

I know years ago nobody would consider throwing food out unless it looked or smelled bad, but I've been so conscious of how long to keep things in fridge etc since I had my kids years ago, so I would never now use cooked meat after 3 days ... it may be completely fine but I couldn't do it

I'm following the same approach as my mum, my GPs, my aunt etc ie everyone in the family has done this.

People didin;t used to be so cavalier about throwing food away in the old days.

Bite you on the arse indeed it's been 25 years for me, and my mums in her 70s and they dont' get food poisoning either!

I find it sad that people have lost touch with so much about their food TBH. People should know what foods are riskier than others, what off or starting to go off looks / smells like etc. And be more conifdent rather than binning the vast amounts of perfectly good food that is chucked every day.

Nope. Link below says “However, most leftover cooked ham is safe in the refrigerator only about 5 days.”

www.foodsafety.gov/blog/ham.html

I don't think I would, after a week.

I wouldn't, 4-5 days would be my limit. Although I'm immunocompromised and do take risks with food as I have a stomach of steel - my weak spot is chest/throat

Ham, I would.
Not the Turkey tho.

I'd eat it no probs and will eat ours tonight. Ham is salted to preserve it. People are fussy and wasteful these days.

8 days ago. No, I wouldn’t risk it. People who are saying ‘it’s salted, it’s how people preserved meat before fridges’, no, back then it was literally left immersed in a vat of salt. It would be more like modern salt fish, or similar to Serrano ham etc (which I’d have no problem keeping for months).

Well I’m 40 and every year of my whole life (so at home with parents and after when I I’ve done it myself) we’ve had a ham cooked on xmas eve and it’s been eaten up for over a week. We finished ours yesterday and it was cooked on the 23rd. Never made anybody ill even once. Surely nobody buys those massive ham joints and uses it all up in 3-4 days?

Ew no way! I’m a bit lax with food dates generally but you cooked this EIGHT days ago.

Thanks not just rank it’s dangerous. If you’d ever had or even known someone else who’d had proper, full blown food poisoning, you’d never risk it.

Interestingly Dino I’ve never had food poisoning and neither have my dc. Often use meat past sell by date and eggs.

Ds had some of said ham in a toasted cheese sandwich this morning and we’ve just had the rest in fried rice.

Have binned some forgotten past sell by pork/ beef mince as neither looked or smelt right.

Pretty sure the ham was fine.

I have had food poisoning, and am more careful as a result.