Chicken drumstick gate!!!

[Cupofteaonesugar]

This is extremely petty I know... so let's not get too deep (🙈) BUT I'm left feeling rattled by what my mum has just down.
I cooked a tray of drumsticks. Not overly done, cooked nicely. 45 mins in the oven... bobs your uncle!
Anyway my mum was here so I shouted to here there's some spare drumsticks if she wanted some and went and ate my dinner.
About 30 mins later, after I'd eaten my dinner, I hear my mum go in the kitchen and say "theses are not done, I'm not eating them" and then put the whole tray back in the oven!!
Now I have a major sickness phobia. Me and my son had food poisoning a couple weeks ago from chicken (not drumsticks) and it was very traumatic for me 🙈
I'm just feeling a bit annoyed! Now I'm sat here panicking about being sick (not my mums fault), but also.... I made and paid for them drumsticks! I feel like she
A. Could've been more discreet
B. Asked me if I wanted to put all of them in the oven longer to become over cooked seeing how I made and paid for them!!
C. Just not have said all that knowing the concern it would give me.

Well I ate 3 of them so now I'm stressed 🙈 They weren't pink at all and skin going crispy so to me that means cooked!

You cooked them, you saw and tasted them, so you know they were done. Ignore her, it’s her loss.

It was just so rude!
I am just going to have to switch off from it because there's nothing I can do about what I've eaten now 😬

You offered her some. What does it matter if she puts them back in the oven for longer because she prefers them more cooked?

They may have been a little pink inside but that’s drumsticks and doesn’t mean they were undercooked, 45 minutes is fine for average size drumsticks. My mum would overcook chicken so it was hard and dry.

They probably were cooked but some people cook them until it’s like eating string

I dont understand. Are you (a) anxious that you did not cook the chicken properly or (b) offended that your mother, wrongly, thought it was undercooked?

It isn't rude to mention they're not cooked enough for her.

I like food cooked throughout increasing the time by at least 15 mins.

If they were undercooked you'd have noticed.

I wouldn't worry.

Not sure I'd be happy about putting them back in the oven after an interval of half an hour.

@PuddingBear I think it was just the way it was said that bothered me and also with ti being my mum she knows fine well that a comment like that is a trigger for my sickness phobia.

@notanothertakeaway well to be honest I'm a little bit of both now! But I'm just second guessing myself and me being worried about they being under cooked wasn't the point of the thread... more the annoyance of the remarks and then putting them back in the oven... assuming I want to go back to over cooked chicken later!!

You're all right. My mum does always over cook, which is fine. But i don't like over cooked chicken 🙈

She's far more likely to get food poisoning putting them back in the oven like that!

Drumsticks will sometimes be on the pink side, it's not breast meat. You would have noticed if it was still slimy on the inside.

They 100% weren't pink and some of the skin had gone crisp. They'd been in for 45 mins and I was happy there were done!
My mum said they were rubbery so they weren't cooked and put them in 😳
Tbh i find leg and thigh a bit rubbery at times anyway 🤷🏼‍♀️

For the future, you might want to get a meat thermometer. They way you can be sure they're cooked through.

Drumsticks can be rubbery. And I definitely wouldn't have chucked them back in for a bit after they'd been out like that.

Lots of people massively over cook chicken. I used to be one of them (fear of food poisoning/ sickness like you). Since then I bought a meat thermometer and now I don't have to judge if they're done, I can check the internal temperature and be sure if they're done or not without needing to overcook them.

My guess is that they were perfectly cooked when you did them but your mum errs on the side of caution so put them back in to over cook them.

Why on earth would putting them back in the oven give you food poisoning?

I'm not saying it would, not sure if you've understood my post if directed at me!

Ok you've all made me feel better, thank you 🥰

If it's started cooling down there's a chance of bacteria already growing - if you then only put it back in for a while, and don't get it hot enough to kill those bacteria then you risk food poisoning. It's likely that the mum wouldn't have it in for that long - thinking that an extra 10 mins or whatever was all that it originally needed, ignoring the cooling down / bacteria issue.