Reheating chicken. Fact or fiction.
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Reheating chicken. Fact or fiction.
Last night i made a chicken casserole and split it into two. I had half today reheated with rice, but i felt it needed cooking a bit more. An hour ago i put the other half back in the oven for another hour with the intention of having this for dinner tomorrow. That means it will have been...
1.Cooked
2.Allowed to cool in the fridge
3.Cooked more
4.Allowed to cool in the fridge.
5.Reheated in microwave tomorrow and consumed.
Hearing all the stuff about chicken and food poisoning i decided to bin it, but it wasn't based on any real knowledge, just hearsay.
When you buy frozen chicken meals from Asda they have been cooked, frozen,defrosted and reheated and that is perfectly safe, so was i right to bin it. For years i've cooked chicken and rice at night, put it in the fridge and reheated it the next day for dinner (for work). Never had food poisoning yet.
So what are the rules for chicken and is it based on fact or hearsay.
thanks
Paul.
1.Cooked
2.Allowed to cool in the fridge
3.Cooked more
4.Allowed to cool in the fridge.
5.Reheated in microwave tomorrow and consumed.
Hearing all the stuff about chicken and food poisoning i decided to bin it, but it wasn't based on any real knowledge, just hearsay.
When you buy frozen chicken meals from Asda they have been cooked, frozen,defrosted and reheated and that is perfectly safe, so was i right to bin it. For years i've cooked chicken and rice at night, put it in the fridge and reheated it the next day for dinner (for work). Never had food poisoning yet.
So what are the rules for chicken and is it based on fact or hearsay.
thanks
Paul.
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Its all paranoia from genetically weak people with poor stomachs...
Do you think we whould have survived the wonders of evolution if a couple of little bacteria were going to beat us?
Do you think we whould have survived the wonders of evolution if a couple of little bacteria were going to beat us?
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As long as the chicken is thoroughly cooked and reheated correctly, I don`t foresee a problem. I`m still here
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Never had problems with re-heated chicken, as long as it is consumed within 3 days and heated hot, thre should not be a problem.
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Generally the practice of cooking chicken and reheating it is not so great. Supermarket stuff has been treated to prevent bacterial growth.
So generally, as UB says, why not eat fresh food.
If you want a decent chicken that has not been tampered with too much have a fresh kosher or halal chicken.
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If in doubt...nuke it...as in re-cook it, i.e. get it up to a temeprature where it should kill back any excess bacteria.
Still, forget chicken...have a nice pork sarnie instead....ones in my local greasy spoon have probably been reahested 2 or 3 times, and I'm still standing
Still, forget chicken...have a nice pork sarnie instead....ones in my local greasy spoon have probably been reahested 2 or 3 times, and I'm still standing
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I've always been told that it's fine to re-heat chicken ONCE after it has already been cooked. I make chicken soup and then freeze it so that I can re-heat it when I want. It'll be fine as long as it has been refridgerated/frozen after cooking, and, it is piping hot when you re-heat it.
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In the winter months I used to make big pans of hot pot using the frozen and defrosted remains of what ever chinese/indian/thai take-aways (there's a right mix of meat in there too) we'd had over the previous summer, then portion up and freeze that for re-heating to suit, none of my family are dead yet
Some of us are carrying a bit more weight than we should be though, thanks to all the ghee in the curries, but that's a whole other story
I never re-heat with the microwave though, partly because I don't trust them, but mainly because I don't like the way microwaved food tastes
When you come out to Asia and see what the locals do with pork and chicken it does make you realise how over-cautious we westerners can be about our food
Some of us are carrying a bit more weight than we should be though, thanks to all the ghee in the curries, but that's a whole other story
I never re-heat with the microwave though, partly because I don't trust them, but mainly because I don't like the way microwaved food tastes
When you come out to Asia and see what the locals do with pork and chicken it does make you realise how over-cautious we westerners can be about our food
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Last night i made a chicken casserole and split it into two. I had half today reheated with rice, but i felt it needed cooking a bit more. An hour ago i put the other half back in the oven for another hour with the intention of having this for dinner tomorrow. That means it will have been...
1.Cooked
2.Allowed to cool in the fridge
3.Cooked more
4.Allowed to cool in the fridge.
5.Reheated in microwave tomorrow and consumed.
Hearing all the stuff about chicken and food poisoning i decided to bin it, but it wasn't based on any real knowledge, just hearsay.
When you buy frozen chicken meals from Asda they have been cooked, frozen,defrosted and reheated and that is perfectly safe, so was i right to bin it. For years i've cooked chicken and rice at night, put it in the fridge and reheated it the next day for dinner (for work). Never had food poisoning yet.
So what are the rules for chicken and is it based on fact or hearsay.
thanks
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1.Cooked
2.Allowed to cool in the fridge
3.Cooked more
4.Allowed to cool in the fridge.
5.Reheated in microwave tomorrow and consumed.
Hearing all the stuff about chicken and food poisoning i decided to bin it, but it wasn't based on any real knowledge, just hearsay.
When you buy frozen chicken meals from Asda they have been cooked, frozen,defrosted and reheated and that is perfectly safe, so was i right to bin it. For years i've cooked chicken and rice at night, put it in the fridge and reheated it the next day for dinner (for work). Never had food poisoning yet.
So what are the rules for chicken and is it based on fact or hearsay.
thanks
Paul.
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My take is that if you heat meat and let it cool (where no flies can **** on it etc) and then heat it again, it's not like some magic chemical reaction takes places where the meat turns into death food.
So, heat cool and reheat and as long as it was cooked properly in the first place and cooled in the right "environment" then bring it on!
So, heat cool and reheat and as long as it was cooked properly in the first place and cooled in the right "environment" then bring it on!
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I've always been told that it's fine to re-heat chicken ONCE after it has already been cooked. I make chicken soup and then freeze it so that I can re-heat it when I want. It'll be fine as long as it has been refridgerated/frozen after cooking, and, it is piping hot when you re-heat it.
Thats it cool and re heat ONCE only
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I think it depends as much as anything on how long it has been unfrozen before you re-freeze it. The longer it is then the more chance bacteria has to form in the food. I have had re-frozen food quite often with no bad effects-yet!
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Contrary to popular belief some of the worse things to re-heat are Rice (particularly from take-away as they've already been cooked/chilled/cooked) and pasta.
The bacteria that grows on these is particularly nasty.
You also need to watch out for keeping some fish (mainly Tuna & Swordfish) at room temperature as heat-resistant spores will grow which can not be killed - although the effects of these are short lived.
The bacteria that grows on these is particularly nasty.
You also need to watch out for keeping some fish (mainly Tuna & Swordfish) at room temperature as heat-resistant spores will grow which can not be killed - although the effects of these are short lived.
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Contrary to popular belief some of the worse things to re-heat are Rice (particularly from take-away as they've already been cooked/chilled/cooked) and pasta.
The bacteria that grows on these is particularly nasty.
You also need to watch out for keeping some fish (mainly Tuna & Swordfish) at room temperature as heat-resistant spores will grow which can not be killed - although the effects of these are short lived.
The bacteria that grows on these is particularly nasty.
You also need to watch out for keeping some fish (mainly Tuna & Swordfish) at room temperature as heat-resistant spores will grow which can not be killed - although the effects of these are short lived.
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Here's some snippets from a document I put together a few months back:
So long as you keep to this, you can never go wrong so long as its not cross contaminated
J
Cooking food until the CORE TEMPERATURE is 75C or above will ensure that harmful bacteria are destroyed.
However, it should be noted that lower cooking temperatures are acceptable provided that the CORE TEMPERATURE is maintained for a specified period of time as follows:
60C for a minimum of 45 minutes
65C for a minimum of 10 minutes
70C for a minimum of 2 minutes
However, it should be noted that lower cooking temperatures are acceptable provided that the CORE TEMPERATURE is maintained for a specified period of time as follows:
60C for a minimum of 45 minutes
65C for a minimum of 10 minutes
70C for a minimum of 2 minutes
Cool to < 8c in approximately 1.5 hours. Must take no longer than 4 hours.
J
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