To think I've fucked it - raw chicken

[dodomin]

All it is is a measly pasta dish. DH in office tomorrow and wanted DD and me to eat "well" and not something oven-y.

So I used a pair of scissors to chop up raw chicken breast into a pan, all good. Chicken pasta all ready and tasty. I pick up aforementioned scissors to chop fresh herbs over the finished dish and noticed a raw chicken morsel on the scissors and it all came flooding back to me. I used the same scissors for the raw chicken and they sat there waiting to be washed but I forgot and just used them. I've stuck a low flame under the pan in an effort to kill any bacteria/cook???? any potential raw chicken morsels that fell in.

Have I fucked the entire dish? 😫😭 Can it be saved or will I kill my entire family?

YABU - the dish is fine
YANBU - stay away from this meal at all costs

Can you put it under a grill? I dont know how risky it is though.

I would microwave it tomorrow before eating. So it is piping

But I wouldn't eat it after just heating the bottom of the pan.

And I'm a skank, most MNetters would be horrified with my level of acceptable consumption.

You'll be ok.

Did any raw chunks go in??

Reheat it in the oven until it’s piping hot tomorrow

With chicken in the UK, you will most likely be fine but it’s not just raw chicken chunks you need to worry about. The scissors would be coated in chicken and the bacteria which then went all over the herbs. You need to heat the dish fully until it is all piping hot.

Do you not cook much? You said your husband is in the office and you’re trying to make something that isn’t “oven food.” So would you usually just make frozen food?

Might be worth learning to cook 6 or 7 good meals so you’ve always got something to fall back on.

My standard offer with these types of thread stands.

I'll come round and eat it all. If I die of food poisoning, you'll know you've dodged salmonella-campylobacter-botulism surprise.

I had a look, I couldn't see any

I used to cook more, would have happily thrown a dinner party once upon a time. My excuse is I was parallel cooking another dish and was trying to be swift with both... I have a little boy who is 7 months old and sadly has a lot of medical issues that take up a lot of time in the day and night and so we've very much fallen on quick food. It isn't ideal but it is what it is.

Is it British chicken? My understanding is that salmonella is an extremely low risk in chickens and eggs that originated in the UK due to our rules on vaccines etc.

It is still important to follow the guidelines about cross contamination nonetheless, because the situation might change - and if it's not UK chicken the risk increases.

I personally wouldn't be overly bothered by what you have described.

Any raw chicken that would have been on the scissors would be very very small. As long as you reheat it so that it is piping hot it will be fine.

I assume it is British chicken, bought it in Asda.

OP doesnt indicate anywhere she cant cook. This situation has come about by absent mindedness is all.

I'd top with cheese and blast it all in a hot oven/ under a grill, and I can get really anxious about food poisoning.

You will survive. You didnt roll the scissors in a turd or leave the chicken outside for two days.

Complete overreaction.

I would do the same. Microwave on high.

Yeah id give i'd a really really good heating through, definitely don't bin it. You'll all be fine. And props to you for cooking like this when you have other things going on. You're doing a great job. ☺️

I don't understand this. Are you saying you cut up the chicken and then put the scissors to one side, forgetting to wash them until you wanted to chop the herbs?
If you then washed the scissors before you chopped the herbs, the food will be fine.

The OP is quite clear. She forgot to wash them and used them to chop the herbs.

She'll be fine.

Although I seem to recall a rather vicious thread some time ago when the OP said her boyfriend cut bread on the same board they had cut the chicken on. All hell broke loose of course and she was not only advised to leave him (of course) but was castigated for not rinsing the board the milisecond she had stopped cutting the chicken up and was a slattern for leaving the chickeny board until after eating.

Am I the only one here gobsmacked that a pair of scissors was used to cut chicken? What in the beejeez nutty method is that!

Sharp knife only, then hot washed in dishwasher surely?

Raw chicken on the dish - I’d dump it.

I did the same thing but with a knife and only realised AFTER we'd eaten a bit of the food.

(I v v rarely cook chicken)

We were all fine.

Salmonella risk is v low. Campylobacter risk a bit higher. I'd definitely have pan fried it all for a few mins!

I personally dont like chicken on a chopping board, so I hold the chicken with a fork, over the pan, chop with scissors. Just like OP

Not nutty at all, lots of people do it that way.

Same here - anything thin or soft is easier to cut with good kitchen scissors than with a knife. Raw chicken, bacon, pizza....

Anyway the dish will be fine I reckon. In future chuck anything chickeny straight into the sink when you've used it!

Why is your husband dictating what you should eat?

Isn't it campylobactor (sp?) which is present in a lot of our meat not salmonella?