Apparently you shouldnt eat the stuff 3 days after its been cooked ( roasted on a Sunday ) . Iv eaten it a week later , several times - i can't say I've suffered, have I been lucky?

 

Things always last longer than they say. But if they said a week and people got food poisoning, they'd start pointing the finger.

 

A week later is probably pushing things a bit. Depends if you fridge is doing its job properly or not. If we had a roast on Sunday I'd be happy eating the leftovers up until the Friday.

 

Maybe it depends on how old it was to start with , I might just freeze next time though .( still no affects so it must been alright)

 

Give the cat or dog a bit first

 

Don't have one,

 

Good.

You can't use your pet as a dummy to test off food on them.
Cats are smart. They smell and reject off foods, but dogs are dustbins. Even when you know that your pets may be eating all sorts of crap on their walks out there, I wouldn't deliberately give them anything that I believe to be 'off'. You should respect your pets a bit more than that.

 

OK, let the wife try it then

 

I might try the little f**ker that keeps ****ting my front flower bed.

 

NO! You can't do that to that little one either! Just keep up with trying it yourself as usual, that will do.

Mind you, animals are hard, but you can still be diseased.

 

A week old is perfect curry material.

 

I even chuck my curry made from fresh chicken/any meat after 3 days of it being in the fridge.

 

The important thing is to chill it as soon as you can. DO NOT leave it in the oven overnight (so don't get pissed and clear up in the morning ) and shove it in the fridge the next day. I would be wary after a week though. 3-4 days max for me.

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I do,but when you put fresh food them,and the little ****** sniffs it, walks off then tries to start ripping the bin bags open.Same as milk or water,seems to prefer the rain water from the bucket in the garden.
Anyway I've give the cat days old chicken,loves it,and it live a good 18 years.

 

Oh, well.

My cats reject off foods. They won't even eat from their own plate if it's over 24 hours stale. They're all different, I suppose.

Son' dog, on the other hand, can eat most things (off or on) apart from my cats' reject Whiskas cat biscuits that were well within their Best Before date.

 

24 hrs....! I think he's taking the micky.

 

 

He often does, and she often takes the mini to its demise when they're out and about.

 

Take-away noodles & rice are far more deadly that anything you cook & chill your self.

Typically they are cooked & chilled twice before you eat it - so have spent much longer in the "danger zone" temperature.

Cooked meats (if they are chilled quickly) are good for 5-6 days I recon.

 

The thread title reminded me of the Swedish chef 'chicken in a basket' sketch. Still makes me laugh..."two points"

 

I tend to avoid anything that is not relatively fresh. I'd rather chuck perfectly good food away than risk making myself ill over a few quid.

Wasteful? probably but a day out of action feeling like ****, is too high a price to pay.

 

I couldn't bring myself to do that.But additionally if we are never exposed to anything " nasty" how would we cope when something serious strikes

 

I do agree with you. Diamond cuts diamond and all that.

But we're already exposed to many things nasty. The air we inhale is not free from nasty germs. The water we drink has been peed in by millions before it gets to our mouth, and so what if it has been de-germed. Even today's fresh chicken could be sitting in some supermarket's cupboard for days before we buy it. Additionally the amount of sh4t these chickens themselves eat is unbelievable; fresh or not fresh. So why deliberately try making yourself ill by eating days old stale chicken? Just cook as much as you need, and then you won't have to fridge it forever and live on it, if wasting it hurts you that much.

May be you're a wholesale cook who likes to cook in abundance to keep all sorts cheap. In that case, you should make little packets of your cooked chicken and freeze it, then you could take out a packet a go to defrost and eat. But that means you'll have to have a freezer. Also, you'll have to invest in buying freezer food bags. Additionally more electricity would be consumed for freezer as well as for defrosting it in your microwave.

You can currently troubleshoot that microwave and electricity expense if you stick your chicken bits on a plate and put it in your garden under sunlight for an hour, mind. Just watch that little fekker who ruins your flower bed. He may smell it, and do one with your chicken, and then you would cry for losing it.

To save all that hard work and money, I agree that you might as well carry on eating your stale chicken.

 

Is the OP's fridge like Frank Drebins?

 

I roast chicken breasts on a Sunday night, slice when cool, then use it on sandwiches for work up to Thursday - have done for ages. As was pointed out earlier, chill it as soon as possible before bacteria get a start multiplying and you should be fine.