To eat a roast chicken that's been left out at room temperate

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Basically I cooked a whole roast chicken at 8pm and forgot to put it in the fridge before bed, so it's been left at room temperature until 6am when I woke up.
Hubby insists that it will be absolutely fine but I'm not so sure....

Christ no! And I'm pretty lax with things like that. The weather has really warmed up ... our house was about 17 degrees all night.

very few!

It will be absolutely fine. It is not going to go off in 12 hours.

Yes, I would. No different to our massive Christmas turkey being on the counter for days for everyone to pick at (after being stored raw in the garage for a week previously). As long as you don't rub a salmonella-infested raw chicken breast over it, you'll be fine.

No way.

I would.

When I was young we didn't have a fridge so leftovers just got kept in the coolest part of the kitchen for a day or two.

I'm still here and don't remember any particularly awful stomach upsets.

This is very true. I'd never thought of it like that.

Sounds legit! Chicken sandwiches for lunch it is then! Thanks

Nope! Food poisoning is horrendous, last time I had it I was vomiting for a week, not worth the risk.

I absolutely would not, our kitchen has been 20-22 over night this week. That is squarely in the danger zone.

I've done this more times than i can remember... and have also woken at 2am and realised it's still "cooling" in the kitchen. Have always still eaten it and been fine.
According to good old Google, it's actually a resounding NO. Cooked chicken should be chucked after being left out for 2 hours (1 hour in warmer temperatures) Let us know how you get on !

Nope not me (unless room temp is under 7 deg in your kitchen)

I would. It would have taken a couple of hours to cool down enough to put in the fridge anyway

i would.

I’m not particularly old (late 30s), and growing up it was the norm to leave remaining chicken out with a fly cover over the top and you’d pick at it for a day or two and it never killed us!

If I’d left it in the oven overnight by mistake I’d probably still eat it next morning but if its been left out on a side where flies can get to it I’d probably not.

I wouldn't particularly with chicken.

Not a cat in hells chance would I risk that. Why risk food poisoning for a fiver?
We went to a Christening once, and the food was laid out in their dining room before the ceremony. Maybe sat there for 1.5 hours at most. We got a horrendous dose of food poisoning from that.

If we have chicken for dinner and there's any leftovers, I put them in the fridge as soon as we are finished eating, even if we're in the middle of watching something on TV. It's just not worth the risk, imo.

in the sense of whether the climate is warm or not! oh dear there's always one.

I think this one is already dead though.

@TinselAngel 😂😂

Was it covered to keep flies, etc off? If it was covered and properly cooked fine. There should be very little (if any) bacteria on it to grow over night.

I wouldn't even give it a thought and would eat it.

Gosh maybe I need to chill out because I cannot believe how many people are saying they’d eat it.

There is no way I’d eat it.

I don’t think that’s how it works.

You leave a cooked turkey on the counter for days, not in the fridge? That is the most disturbing thing I have ever heard! How are you still alive??