How many times would you reheat Turkey?

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I was at my MIL’s house yesterday and she was doing a hot left over meal with the turkey from Christmas Day. What shocked me was the fact she reheated all the left over meat. I thought this was a waste as I personally would only reheat once. When I mentioned it she said oh no as long as it’s properly hot each time you can reheat as many times as you like. So she planned to eat the meat every day until all gone reheating the whole lot each time.
So I wondered what others do, her way sounds like a recipe for food poisoning but maybe I am being too precious?

I always thought meat could be reheated once. So cook, cool, reheat, cool - then once cooled don't heat it again!

Sounds like a recipe for food-poisoning to me as well!

She'll probably be fine, but I don't think you're meant to reheat more than once. My gran was terrible for reheating things multiple times but she seemed to be fine 🤷‍♀️. I wouldn't do it myself though 🤢

She will probably be fine, built up an immunity if doing it forever, could tell some hair raising stories about turkey but the people involved always never got sick, only the newbies lol

Mind you if it's cooled quickly inbetween and into a very cold fridge promptly and boiled up again until nuclear hot in gravy you'd probably get away with a couple of heatings anyway, it's people doing it wrong that means there has to be a blanket rule for all.

The mind boggles. No, you're being sensible. You reheat once then eat.

You take your turkey out of the fridge, cut what you are planning to eat and reheat on a low heat until piping hot (I pour some leftover gravy on top which helps it stay moist).

Apart from the food poisoning risk reheating any meat, especially turkey, will make it staler each time. The leftover turkey can stay wrapped in the fridge for around 4-5 days, but keep checking to make sure it hasn't gone bad because people's fridge temps and hygiene is different.

I'm quite blasé about stuff like this but even I wouldn't reheat that many times...

I believe she’s technically correct. So long as it’s reheated really throughly and correctly (and cooled quickly and refrigerated between times)you can reheat it multiple times. I doubt it’s going to nice and moist after a couple of goes though.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35234184

I can’t imagine that someone inclined to reheat the whole lot would be the sort to make sure it’s cooled and chilled particularly quickly.

Once

Why would she reheat the whole lot each time? Even if it doesn't poison her it'll be drying out. Much better to slice it up and reheat what you want.

My mum used to warm things up to take the chill off them when they'd been in the fridge - meat pies, quiches etc. she wouldn't have it that they needed to be hot or cold - not somewhere in between!

My MIL used to cook large joints of meat and store them in the oven overnight rather than the fridge.

I don't recall any of them getting food-poisoning 🤷‍♀️

I do once generally but tonight will make a turkey curry ( the Angela Hartnett recipe is really good) and will freeze some that'll get heated again making it twice. I don't feel totally happy about that but always do it and so far have got away with it.

My DM used to do that - part of the reason I hate turkey. We were still eating it in January.
However, I survived, as did DB.

I guess twice as i make soup and feeze it.
So first cook, then reheat when making soup, then re heat when eating soup.