Left meat in car

Merlin5 · 20 Jul 2021 at 19:09

I bought 1kg chicken legs, 1kg chicken drumsticks and Tesco reduced fat pork sausages yesterday afternoon and forgot to take them from the car until midday today. All sealed packages but do you think they'd be ok? I usually freeze them.

Merlin5 · 20 Jul 2021 at 20:21

Ok thanks guys. The chicken does pong so I've binned them.

The sausages however smell perfectly fine, almost odourless and what odour there is is just the same as fresh. What do you think, keep?

Merlin5 · 20 Jul 2021 at 21:19

^ Lol.

Well chaps, I threw the sausages as well. Another waste of a few quid, it's not the first time I've thrown chicken.

Out of interest, in this hot weather, what is an acceptable length of time between coming out of a shop with meat and getting it into the fridge? Let's say you buy the meat and then want to go to another shop for something and you get home about an hour after buying the meat, would that be ok?

Merlin5 · 20 Jul 2021 at 21:20

Hyburnate said:
If it makes you feel any better I did it with milk, which came out more like cheese...

I left it in the net at the side of the boot and only took out the bags

Mmm, cheesy milk.

Merlin5 · 20 Jul 2021 at 21:45

robfosters said:
I’d say 2-3 hours max

Ok, that sounds good.

Saint1972 said:
Buy a couple bags frozen veg at the same time and wrap it round the meat.Have it in its own bag first.

Yep, that's a good idea.

Maundie said:
Depends it'll last a lot longer in a saloon with a separate boot than an estate/hatchback where the windows will warm the car up quicker, we have a coolbox (no need for the freezer packs if you have some frozen veg etc.) for really hot days and just put it in there when loading the boot.

Yeah, mine's a hatchback. Coolbox sounds like a good idea. How long can meat stay in it on a hot day?

Merlin5 · 20 Jul 2021 at 22:44

Yes I already threw all the meat and will rebuy it.

Merlin5 · 20 Jul 2021 at 23:26

Irish_Tom said:
1. You’re rubbish with leaving food out.

2. I gave myself and my wife food poising from dodgy sausages at the weekend (even though we thought they were cooked properly). I wouldn’t recommend it.

Good job you chucked it all.

Yes, I am rubbish with leaving food out, and now the food is going out with the rubbish.

Sorry to hear you got food poisoning, not nice I'm sure!