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I'd eat it.
Chicken Question!
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Given I am the type that bails on milk that's been open a day (ok two days) past the 'use within 3 days once open' on the carton, I may concede a loss on this one and bin it for the greater good.
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I wouldn't eat it.
wow. our fridge keeps out milk going for 7-10 days beyond that date.
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I don't doubt the milk scenario, the sniff test for milk tends to work but sometimes it's about weighing up the pros and cons for the sake of about 60p 
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It is cooked and so will be fine. You would be disgusted to learn how long cooked chicken is left out of the fridge in supermarket warehouses when it gets busy. Not uncommon for sandwiches and packets of cooked meat to be out 20+ hours from delivery if fridges are full and it is super busy.
Wow - milk actually says that now?! The supermarkets must love that! It's no wonder that on average British households waste £250-£400 worth of food a year!
I tend to ignore the use by dates on milk, as it's one of the easiest things to check if it's gone bad - give it a sniff, if you gag it's bad, if not it's fine!
Re: the OP, I'd eat it without a second thought! those ready-cooked chickens you get in the supermarket have probably been sat on the counter for a few hours before you pick them up, then another 30 mins to get home, another 30 - 60 mins before you eat it...
yeah, I regularly use milk that's been open for about 5 days and is 3 days past best before.
I give it to the kids first, though....
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Yeah unpasteurised milk has a longer open fridge life than 2/3 days, ridiculous that off the shelf milk has it on there. Even that stays out of the fridge on average a few hours between delivery and being put out.
Use by dates are normally overly cautious and best before dates are just there to show a guarantee of quality until a certain date.
Use by dates are normally overly cautious and best before dates are just there to show a guarantee of quality until a certain date.
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It will be fine. Get it eaten.
Lets face it, eating it is a win-win situation, if its good, you got some tasty chicken to munch on, if its gone bad, you get the oppertunity to lose a few pounds just in time to offset what you put on over xmas/new year.
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you own your house but need to ask this question ?
it will be absolutely fine :/
it will be absolutely fine :/
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Yes, I think I would as well.
I'd eat cooked chicken from a good fridge over 4 days from cook but if it was cooked, refrigerated then left out at room temperature and then to be refrigerated again, I'm not sure I'd risk it. Depends how cold it was in the house but still I'm not sure I'd risk. Given you can buy three reasonably sized chickens for £10 it's hardly throwing away fresh salmon or a leg of lamb.
If you've ever had food poisoning you wouldn't risk it either!
Yes, I think I would as well.
I'd eat cooked chicken from a good fridge over 4 days from cook but if it was cooked, refrigerated then left out at room temperature and then to be refrigerated again, I'm not sure I'd risk it.
If you've ever had food poisoning you wouldn't risk it too!
It's not a risk and yes I would eat even though I've had food poisoning. Only once I suspect from a Chinese.
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I have had food poisoning from very (insanely) questionable decisions when i was younger but this is fine. If you realise what your food has been through before you take it to the till, you would be desensitised by most all the food-fearmongering.
How do you think people survived before fridges and freezers or in countries where not everyone has them or when they were unreliable/power outages were more uncommon?
Clearly OP wont eat it because if he has to ask the internet for chicken eating permission he wont enjoy it enough to sit through the meal. A waste but i am sure the foxes will appreciate it.
For those people who think it is risky, what do you think the process and time frames involved that is likely to make the chicken inedible?
How do you think people survived before fridges and freezers or in countries where not everyone has them or when they were unreliable/power outages were more uncommon?
Clearly OP wont eat it because if he has to ask the internet for chicken eating permission he wont enjoy it enough to sit through the meal. A waste but i am sure the foxes will appreciate it.
For those people who think it is risky, what do you think the process and time frames involved that is likely to make the chicken inedible?
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In fact it was from a Chinese takeaway that I had food poisoning (ate on purchase rather than reheated).
my milk is often +5 days and never smells or looks funny..
you can tell when it starts to go off because you get tiny white flakes in your coffee that float to the surface.