If you part cook chicken, not all the way through, and then leave it in the fridge overnight, can you finish cooking it the next day?

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Or will you die of food poisoning?

Ooh gosh no I wouldn't.

Sounds very dodgy

not worth the risk. no.

no.

asking for food poisoining.

if you can't cook it all tonight leave it for tomorrow.

or put it in the slow cooker overnight.

Why aren't you cooking it all tonight?

Help!
This is my worst nightmare - you are my MIL, aren't you? My cover is blown....

All I can say is that my MIL does do this...and leaves it in the microwave with the door shut tight over night (this is in the tropics)..and then practically deep fries it the next morning. They don't seem to get food poisining as often as you might think, but I tend to eat a lot of bread and vegetables on the days that this happens.

If you part cook it, some will be cooke, some will be raw, and the bit in the middle will have been nicely warmed up, just thr right temp for the bacteria to multiply like crazy and spread all over the cooked and raw bits. Well dodgy.

No.

Provided you can get the core temperature high enough then it shouldn't be a problem.......but it's getting the core temp high enough that might be a problem.

I wouldn't risk it personally.

Blu maybe your MIL doing the deep frying is enough to get the temp high enough.....but

Why on earth would you want to do this? A form of Russian Roulette to cheer up your dull life or something?
Seriously, no. Cooking chicken is very quick!

That's sort of what I figured......DP cooked it last night, but then we decided not to eat it and he turned it off, but it wasn't cooked all the way through.

So now he's wondering whether we can eat it tonight.

Sounds like it's a non starter.

Why would you want to do that? Sounds like a recipe for disaster. Or a bad case of food poisoning anyway.

If you are going to do this

Use a pair of very sharp scissors/knife & cut the par-cooked chicken open

Make sure the inside of the chicken is uppermost

Treat everything you have cut the chicken with/on etc as absolute poison & sterilise it all (not just wipe with antibac use boiling water)

& remember it is a very bad idea

ewww noooo

Blardy hell, was he that impatient NOT to eat chicken last night that he just couldnt leave it in the oven and cook it? His actions makes no sense whatsoever. I would NOT eat it today.

Absolutely no! (just in case you haven't got hte message )

Years ago I cooked some chicken for myself and a friend. The next day I reheated the leftovers but insufficiently as it turned out. Another friend turned up (who happens to be a senior nurse) adn gave us a lecture on the dangers of not cooking/reheating chicken properly

I wouldn't

Why would you want to?

I don't want to, at all. I just wondered if I was being insane in thinking it was a problem.

Not quite sure why DP turned it off before it was done, you'd have to ask him that