Defrosted petit pois

[Merlin5]

I bought a 1kg bag of birds eye petit pois around 3.15pm and they've been in my car until now. Naturally they've all defrosted, though the bag is cold, and on the bag it specifically says not to refreeze which is pretty standard for defrosted foods. I've put the bag, still factory sealed, in the fridge and need a good handful of them on Sunday to go in my cottage pie to take to family and eat on Sunday night. Of course I don't want to poison them.

Will they be ok in the fridge for 4 days? I can throw the rest of the bag away after that.

 

[Merlin5]

It's the 'warm time' you need to worry about with refreezing, not the act of refreezing them that's the issue.

Peas won't go bad sat at ambient temperature for a day, so you're fine if they been defrosted and refrozen in a time frame less than that.

As above, it's foods that spoil quickly that you need to be careful with, meats, cooked rice (perfect bacteria breeding medium).

Ah, I see. Wish I'd known that on the 18th, could have refrozen them that day.