She poured the marinade that the raw chicken had been in on the cooked chicken and served it

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Just that really.

Chatting to my lifelong friend while she was preparing dinner for her kids and that is what she did. She took the cooked wings out of her air fryer and poured the leftover marinade over it and served it to her kids. I was so taken aback and said oh you shouldn’t be doing that- it will have raw chicken germs all over it.

She looked at me like I was absolutely mad and said that’s how her mum always did it and the marinating chicken had been covered in the fridge so it was fine. I weakly said I didn’t think it was fine and she just laughed.

It’s not fine is it? I’s not going mad am I? She’s such a better housekeeper and cook than I am that I’m actually beginning to doubt myself! It’s so crazy- I ate at her house hundreds of times at a kid and I am certain her mum wouldn’t have done this. Is this a sliding doors of knowledge moment where she missed something fundamental? She’s like Martha Stewart and this is all completely mad.

As far as I am aware, her kids have never had a bout of food poisoning.

Oh gawd... no. Oh please please tell her, send her some info.. and do let us know what she says because that is... ugh.. vile. The thought of that marinade sitting there at room temp, all the bacteria just trundling away and then dumped over the warm chicken to fester more...

I am pretty relaxed about hygiene at times (I'll eat a butty with hands that just groomed a horse, I will let the dog lick my icecream, then I'll carry on licking it.. I know, so sue me), but that is beyond grim.

That is awful but did she cook the marinade, ie was it made very hot before she poured it over?

but surely the marinade was cold?

actually i have done this, if you marinade chicken what do you then do with the marinade?

Cook it in the marinade if you want to use it. I work in the industry and have food hygiene qualifications - you should absolutely not be adding raw chicken marinade to the cooked.
look on Food safety for advice and information

Good grief!

I'm pretty cavalier when it comes to what I eat and will eat stuff after "best before" dates if it looks and smells ok, but even I wouldn't have done that.

Salmonella is not such a big deal in the UK nowadays (I think chickens are vaccinated or something) but campylobacter is still a thing and it's horrendous. I thought I was going to die when I had it. (Not caused by my own slack hygiene practices, either, but from a meal in a pub.)

Your friend is an idiot. It's fine to pour the marinade in and actually cook it, but what she did was dangerous.

She's been lucky so far....that's food poisoning waiting to happen. This is why I don't like eating food made by others.

Liquid salmonella — drink up!!

Add it towards the end of the cooking (or heat it separately to make a sauce) but it needs to be cooked well enough to kill any bacteria.

That's a big no, if you want to use the marinade you have to cook it until it's boiling. Or just make a fresh one.
Just send her the link to this thread 😂

I nearly wretched just reading that 🤮 just the thought of a cold, uncooked chicken sitting in the marinade then eating the marinade, just no, absolutely not.
You are 100% correct.

She can just Google it!

I am pretty overly lax over food standards in some respects, but this has freaked me out immensely 🤒

That's terrible. My husband got very very ill from raw chicken and it took months to get better!

Really bad. I gave myself serious food poisoning from cooked chicken touching something which had raw chicken juice on. I lost a stone in weight. I'm so careful now.

Bleugh! I had a flatmate who put raw chicken in the freezer on top of the ice cubes. They were like, it's fine it's frozen. But it went in raw?! And even if it was frozen there could still be risk of contamination. So gross. I'm so glad I've finally don't have flatmates.
Though MIL did stay with us for Christmas, cooked turkey and bacon patting it all over with her bare hands then not washing her hands opening drawers, getting out dishes, wiping them on tea towels 🤢) it's a 50/50 vegetarian fam so she likes to do the meat. I just had to bite my tongue.

Can you look for an article that explains this (very obvious) healthy hazard and send it to her? That way you back your "opinion" and she can't double down as easily? Although it should be so common knowledge that maybe you can't find anything that says it explicitly!
Oh my, this made me sick to think about it! 😰 I really hope it's all a misunderstanding 😬

I thought some posters were OTT about throwing away the lid of a non food item that was accidentally dropped down the loo so I'm on the Relaxed end of hygiene spectrum, but raw chicken and cooked chicken should never mix.

Though MIL did stay with us for Christmas, cooked turkey and bacon patting it all over with her bare hands then not washing her hands opening drawers, getting out dishes, wiping them on tea towels 🤢) it's a 50/50 vegetarian fam so she likes to do the meat. I just had to bite my tongue.
One reason I hate prepping meat that requires using your bare /gloved hands. The amount of in between handwashing when you need to grab something you've forgotten out of a drawer. My hands are raw by the time I've produced a stuffed roast chicken

Aside from being dangerous (which it definitely is), this also doesn't sound very nice to eat. Some room temp liquid poured over chicken? So I really can't understand why she'd do it.

Can you show her this thread?.

OMG! What a erm.. silly person 😬. Please send her some info and explain you are just worried for her health and the health of her children and please let us know what she says. This is vile, I never knew people were this silly.

Just wanted to say as a fellow Australian that this is not something Aussie Mums are doing.

Why wouldn’t she just cook the marinade with the chicken as is intended.

i have seen some sort of video which shows the chicken on people's hands going everywhere in the house if you dont wash your hands.
i am a lot more careful about raw chicken now

I don't know much about cooking but I would think it was a mad thing to do. The marinade can't be raw. And needs to be cooked. Common sense should tell her that. What an idiot.