Could you have eaten this?

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So ils did a massive turkey Xmas day and a ham joint Boxing Day. We visited for a few days from Boxing Day onwards, on Boxing Day we had the turkey reheated along with the ham. For the remainder of our visit the turkey and the ham came out at every breakfast and lunch and sat on the table for an hour or so with everyone (approx 10 adults and children) touching it. We also had a turkey and ham carbonara one evening.
On the 29th of December fil bagged the remaining meat up and froze it.
We got invited to Sunday dinner yesterday and guess what we had? Turkey and ham pie!

I really didn't want to eat the pie as imo they had waited too long to freeze the meat, it had spent too much time sat at room temperature, everyone had fingered it and it had been reheated at least once possibly twice already.

Dh said I am being ridiculous what do you think?

No, far too long between cooking and freezing.

@Chrispackhamspoodle 😂
@Laiste ah that was a good thread😂

I’d have eaten it. Cooking again into a pie will have killed any bacteria.

Cooking really kills most germs, it’s raw food we need to be most careful of

Oooh yes please!
With lots of cranberry sauce.

Whaaat?! No way! That whole thing sounds like a nightmare of food hygiene fails. It's a YANBU from me.

The biggest risk was leaving the turkey out of the fridge for hours, over several days, then freezing it again then reheating it.

Recipe for food poisoning.

She ought to have cut enough for each meal, put it on a platter, and returned the turkey to the fridge each time.

I don't understand people touching it?

Surely someone cuts the turkey, put it on a large plate or platter and then people help themselves from the platter?

Or, of course, buying a smaller turkey.

I'm surprised she could get it in her oven.

The largest we've ever had was about 12 lbs and that was almost impossible to get into the oven.

I wouldn't have eaten it if cooked meat isn't eaten or frozen within 3 days it gets chucked.

I wouldn't have touched it, but then again I really struggle with things like this and once I get an idea something could be contaminated I can't touch it. So my view is perhaps unhealthy. I don't ever eat leftovers.

Nope.

Each time it's at room temperature, the bacteria can multiply.

Cooking doesn't always kill all bacteria and in a pie it's unlikely they reached a high enough temp or the pastry would have burned.

Are you trying to elevenerife by having a mumsnet turkey instead of a mumsnet chicken?

🤢

This is just not true. You should really read up on food safety.

I eat anything but no not that.

If it’s only been out for an hour a day for 4 days before they froze it, it would be fine. Then heating it in the pie would kill any remaining bugs, long as it’s properly hot.

So yeah, I’d eat it.

Maybe suggest a Turkey crown next time so you don’t have to eat it for a month. They aren’t as nice though..

Cooking does not kill (or deactivate) bacterial toxins though...
Hence leftover rice cannot be made safe by reheating it

I would not have eaten it. DH would have. (He once ate an Iceland prawn ring that had bee sitting defrosted on the kitchen side from the day before without any ill effects.. )

It's the sort of thing we argue about as well.

Teach me to talk rubbish without checking my facts 😂🤢

Uh oh! What new horror are you presenting us with Laiste? 😩😵😂

I would have eaten it to be polite but I would be judging inside.

Is the piddly penis hand the non hand washing FIL @Laiste ?

Sounds gross

no way would I have eaten it

I would have eaten it, assumed that cooking again would have made it safe.

Eww no wouldn’t have eaten it.

No, I wouldn't eat it. We do eat leftover turkey but it's kept in the fridge, we only cut off the bits we'll eat for that meal (and they come out of the fridge), and we don't reheat it. And certainly don't freeze it. Plus we keep it maybe 4 days max. once cooked.

Sounds like what we do. I’m in charge of the turkey though so it’s not repeatedly reheated, just what is being eaten, and it doesn’t have loads of people touching it.