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Food safety

Put skinless boneless chicken breasts in the cart yesterday at 2pm. Gave them to dad yesterday to bring to camp. Left on table to 10am today then into fridge. Cooking them tomorrow for some 80plus yo elderly. Is it safe.
fukahwee maine

you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it

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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,662
    While there are an abundance of stories here and elsewhere of no issues with overly thawed protein, given your father's age the upside of saving a few $$ is not worth the reward.  I would not toss but conduct the one-off experiment on yourself only.  Then you will have a data point for the future.  No need to rope your unknowing father into an experiment of counter hot aging.  Just an opinion.
    Happy Friday.
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  • hoosier_egger
    hoosier_egger Posts: 6,808
     Chicken. Enough said. I’d toss it
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  • ColbyLang
    ColbyLang Posts: 4,385
    Ummmm no. Throw that away
  • DoubleEgger
    DoubleEgger Posts: 19,139
    Easy call. Toss that bird. 
  • Hadn’t actually taken this as a serious question, given the vulnerable population referenced and the Friday delivery. 

    But if it was, why risk it?
  • lkapigian
    lkapigian Posts: 11,549
    It’s probably fine but even I would not risk it if cooking for others 
    Visalia, Ca @lkapigian
  • caliking
    caliking Posts: 19,779
    The refrigeration timeline is not clear. Having said that, there's one way to find out. 

    The 80 year olds likely have a tougher constitution than we do. Unless any of them have other reasons to be immunocompromised.


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    A happy BGE family in Houston, TX.
  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,330
    Use it in a chicken/shrimp stir-fry.  The radiation will clean ‘em right up (Cesium-137 is actually used in food sterilization, I learned today).   =)
    "First method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
           - Niccolo Machiavelli

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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,552
    So that is how this ask a question works. I get to choose the best answer to a question that I don't know =).                     So dad boiled the chicken in salty water last night, tossed the water and boiled it a second time for the dogs.  Put it in Tupperware and there it sits this morning on the counter still.......this I'm not worried about. The dogs bury meat far longer than that and eat it. Now what to do with dad
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
  • caliking
    caliking Posts: 19,779
    So that is how this ask a question works. I get to choose the best answer to a question that I don't know =).                     So dad boiled the chicken in salty water last night, tossed the water and boiled it a second time for the dogs.  Put it in Tupperware and there it sits this morning on the counter still.......this I'm not worried about. The dogs bury meat far longer than that and eat it. Now what to do with dad

    Isn't this how all of the threads asking a question work?

    #1 LBGE December 2012 • #2 SBGE February  2013 • #3 Mini May 2013
    A happy BGE family in Houston, TX.
  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,552
    caliking said:
    So that is how this ask a question works. I get to choose the best answer to a question that I don't know =).                     So dad boiled the chicken in salty water last night, tossed the water and boiled it a second time for the dogs.  Put it in Tupperware and there it sits this morning on the counter still.......this I'm not worried about. The dogs bury meat far longer than that and eat it. Now what to do with dad

    Isn't this how all of the threads asking a question work?
    I hit no in the responses they gave and you didn't get a worst  thingie :D. This question thing is dei or is it dui
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it