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Original poster

To ask when can I cook chicken nuggets and sausage rolls for party today?

149 replies

WaitroseAldi · 26/06/2021 08:04

Party is at 11.45. When can I cook the sausage rolls and chicken nuggets?

Dh is saying not until right before incase of food poisoning?! I thought now would be ok?!

Help lol

OP posts:
orangejuicer · 26/06/2021 08:32

I can't believe how many people serve cold nuggets. Yuck.

inappropriateraspberry · 26/06/2021 08:32

If your husbands so concerned, put him in charge of cooking them whilst you sort something else!

EmeraldShamrock · 26/06/2021 08:32

I'd imagine DC don't eat much tapas.
McDonald's are warm, serve warm.
Stick them in the oven on 180 after 5 minutes leave them on low with foil on top for another 20 if you like.
Most are precooked.

covidcloser · 26/06/2021 08:32

British tapas

Tapas does not mean cold Confused

Original poster
WaitroseAldi · 26/06/2021 08:33

Iv always done cold chicken nuggets lol and cold pizza lol

OP posts:
HelenaJustina · 26/06/2021 08:34

Surely there’s going to a drip feed about how the oven is a plug-in dolly sized one, and OP is feeding 5000 children at the party.

Work back half an hour from serving and cook them then, it’s not going to be roasting hot today and they are much nicer hot.

Couchbettato · 26/06/2021 08:34

I'd risk the food poisoning tbh but sausage rolls when left to go cold do start going soggy and they lose that nice crunch.

supernooodle · 26/06/2021 08:36

Just do your cold spread, it's fine.

worktrip · 26/06/2021 08:36

If you are serving them cold, cook now and refrigerate when cool. They can stay out for 4 hours. If serving warm, they can be cooked and you have 2 hours for them to be eaten. Food hygiene rules.

DeflatedGinDrinker · 26/06/2021 08:36

Everything at kids bday is cold. I'd have done them yesterday.

BanningTheWordNaice · 26/06/2021 08:37

I thought the video of Matt Hancock was the worst thing I’d see in a morning this week but no apparently it’s “normal” to serve cold chicken nuggets. Grim.

ProfessorInkling · 26/06/2021 08:40

Oh, it was light hearted, not snarky.

Ragwort · 26/06/2021 08:40

I love the Mumsnet faux horror at serving cold chicken nuggets Grin ... surprised no one has mentioned the carb overload and why aren't you serving sushi and chopped raw veg ...

NeedNewKnees · 26/06/2021 08:46

@WaitroseAldi

Iv always done cold chicken nuggets lol and cold pizza lol
Cold leftover pizza after a night of drinking - breakfast of champions! Student tradition.

Deliberately cold pizza at a party - grim.

Just cook them half an hour before the children arrive.

Original poster
WaitroseAldi · 26/06/2021 08:49

I can’t believe people actually serve hot food at a kids home party buffet lol

OP posts:
MrsFin · 26/06/2021 08:50

I would have already started, they are absolutely fine for a few hours. Plus you want them cold before the kids arrive.

Cold nuggets and sausage rolls?? 🤢

Cook them (though I think you mean heat them up - if you've bought and not made them they are likely already cooked) just before the kids eat them.

Or even better, don't feed the kids processed crap at all Grin

GameSetMatch · 26/06/2021 08:54

I took my eldest to a party where they served cold chicken dippers, I thought it was very odd but the children ate them all up. M&S do chicken bites which are meant to be served cold so…..

DulseSeaweed · 26/06/2021 08:54

Cold pizza and cold sausage rolls fine. Not sure about nuggets. I would stick everything in oven so it finishes when you want to serve or, if tricky, a bit earlier then turn the oven down to 100 to keep warm until serving.

Cold pizza is probably easier with kids esp if lots of mozzarella.

Cocomarine · 26/06/2021 08:55

@WaitroseAldi

Surely you have cold chicken nuggets lol? Isn’t that a thing? British tapas and all that lol
It’s only a thing if you really don’t like food.
MinimumChips · 26/06/2021 08:56

I moved to the UK as an adult and one of the things I found very weird when I moved here was serving cold sausage rolls at parties. Yuck! For me they need to be served hot to be worth serving at all.

Cocomarine · 26/06/2021 08:56

@WaitroseAldi

I can’t believe people actually serve hot food at a kids home party buffet lol
I can’t believe that some people think just because they’re kids, I’ll serve them cold unappetising shite cos it’s easier for me 🤣
GiantToadstool · 26/06/2021 08:57

I haven't had cold chicken nuggets (would think that a bit weird tbh.) I have been to a kids party and had cold pizza which I also thought was weird.

I'd get all your cold stuff sorted now and put sausage rolls (if heating, you could leave those cold if you need oven space) and do the chicken nuggets hot.

It isn't diffict to have just one thing to do hot and you can put a timer on, have tray ready etc. Especially if its at home so its an amount that will fit in an oven.

Ive beeen to cold kids buffets (sandwhiches/cocktail sausages/crisps/fairy cakes/etc etc) and ones with a mix with hot bits (chicken nuggets/pizza/etc).

I really wouldn't serve cold nuggets...

AmazingBouncingFerret · 26/06/2021 08:57

Fuck sake, all these people clutching their pearls in horror at cold chicken nuggets have obviously never experienced the delights of purchasing a 20 box of McNuggets on a night out and eating the rest the next morning.
Cold chicken nuggets are essential at a kids party buffet.

GiantToadstool · 26/06/2021 08:59

Missed that in all the years of birthday parties we've hosted or been to. And many many of them "processed crap" and proud!

If it really is a thing shere you live then I guess thats fine. Do them and put in the fridge.

But really I'd do them hot...

BarbaraofSeville · 26/06/2021 09:01

@WaitroseAldi

I can’t believe people actually serve hot food at a kids home party buffet lol
Why wouldn't they? Chicken nuggets are normally served hot (well warm) and sausage rolls are much nicer warm.

If the party is at 11.45, people will probably be arriving from 11.30 to 12.30 and they'll want to play, chat etc so you wouldn't be doing food etc until 1 ish? So I'd wait until most people are there (12.15?) and put them in then and give them 10-15 mins to cool a bit before serving.

One of you can do this while the other keeps an eye on the party and greets any latecomers?

But even if you cooked them now, there would be pretty much zero risk of food poisoning, people are really ridiculous about this, but the food will be pretty rank by lunchtime.