defrosting tips / guidelines please

[mckenzie]

I defrosted over night in the fridge some cod that I'd bought from the fresh fish counter last week and frozen immediately.
I've not used it tonight after all - will it be okay to stay in the fridge and be cooked tomorrow night or should I cook it tonight anyway?

TIA

TBH depends what you're going to do with it.....if I was just going to flake up the fish anyway I'd cook it tonight. Then again I'm becoming better with eating food past sell by dates....just go by smell and what it looks like...like they did in the good old days!! Read an article recently in a paper that looked at the quality of foods past the date it says on packet and all of the food they looked at was fine.....their conclusion was to use your judgement and just make sure that it is cooked thoroughly right through to kill any lurking bacteria.

I was going to pan fry it with some olive oil, lemon and red pepper so it wont really be the same to cook it tonight and heat it through tomorrow.
But i'd rather just cook it and use it for something else than risk poisoning my children

if you froze it on the day you bought it and its been in the firdge all the time it'll be fine.