Soldato
Happy Xmas everyone.
I took a chicken leg and two drumsticks from the freezer on Wednesday night, was defrosted on Thursday evening, but I decided to eat something else, so the defrosted chicken remained in the fridge. The chicken has no odour at all today. I just removed all the skin as I usually do, coated it in my deluxe spicy chicken recipe and have roasted it for half an hour, also as I usually do. Will it be ok to eat cold on Sunday, in other words, 3 days on from being defrosted?
I took a chicken leg and two drumsticks from the freezer on Wednesday night, was defrosted on Thursday evening, but I decided to eat something else, so the defrosted chicken remained in the fridge. The chicken has no odour at all today. I just removed all the skin as I usually do, coated it in my deluxe spicy chicken recipe and have roasted it for half an hour, also as I usually do. Will it be ok to eat cold on Sunday, in other words, 3 days on from being defrosted?
One other thing. After cooking, I had to go straight out and didn't have time to let it cool down. I transferred the chicken into a pyrex bowl, covered it with cling film and put the bowl straight into the fridge while the chicken was hot. So it was a little steamy under the clingfilm. Is that still ok? I thought I'd read somewhere that food shouldn't go into a fridge while hot.
I was with family yesterday and there was a retired butcher there, the father of my nephew's girlfriend. He said to throw it as meat must never go into the fridge until it's completely cold, otherwise bacteria multiply faster. He said it would have been fine just leaving it out to cool on the worktop and covered with clingfilm.