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Friday's chicken. Okay or toss?

I roasted that chicken on Friday for dinner. Kept in the fridge all weekend, boned it on Monday and had it in baked sandwiches on Monday and Tuesday. Do you think it's still okay? I was thinking of baking it into empanadas today. It looks and smells fine, but according to a cookbook I have, cooked poultry should last up to 4 days in the fridge.

What say you, dear SE-ers?

25 Comments:

Trust yourself. If it smells and looks OK, you can use it.

(Now I'll be thinking of empanadas all day, thanks ;-)

I'd eat it. No problem.

I'd toss it....but my dad would eat it. It all depends on how comfortable you are with taking a risk :) Give it a whiff!

My bf would toss it, but barring any warning signs (bad smell, bad things growing on it, etc) I would definitely eat it.

I would most definitely not eat it.

I'd eat it. But, then again, yesterday I consumed egg salad that I made on Monday...from eggs I'd hard boiled last Thursday...that had a "Best By" date of Sept. 21. I may not be your "go to" on this.

Poultry. Ok if you did not read that I will type it again. It is poultry.

i would toss it. take a whiff and a taste if you'd like. but i've found that it doesn't seem appetizing after about 4 days. it's probably ok to eat, but at this point i'm just over it.

As long as you had it in the fridge: go for it.
Im going to eat a vegetarian stew today for lunch from last Thursday....I'm also broke lol

If it smells ok, and you're going to fully heat it again, you should be fine.

@jerz...i don't get it.

Thank you all for your input!

@jerz: if its cooked already it's omitted from salmonella contraction if refrigerated; isn't it? If not: I'm damn lucky :o

I'm a tosser for the most part, except for salads. But then I can't eat food that was brought home in a doggie bag either.

I roast a chicken every Sunday and eat chicken sandwiches for lunch all week. You're fine.

Eat that stuff... its all good. Dont throw it away. Waste not.

My thoughts exactly. We had plenty of stuff in the fridge, but I hate to waste! The empanadas came out great. I chopped the chicken up and mixed it with a diced red onion, a little hot sauce and other leftover ingredients - salsa, chopped baby spinach, chopped grape tomatoes and mozzarella cheese. We had it for lunch and except for that twitch, I feel fine.... ;)

If it doesn't smell funky and there is no fuzzy growth on it then go for it.

Rule of thumb for me with cooked food is, correctly wrapped and sealed it's good for 7 days. Be sure to label and date leftovers. I know, easier said than done. Attach a sharpie to the fridge and you'll find it's more convenient to keep up with this very good habit.

I agree with therealchiffonade. I give anything a week in the fridge as long as it is fresh when it enters and I am the picture of health. No one is going to publish something that says that, though, because if anything should ever go wrong, they'd be sued for all they're worth.

For years I rotated foods because of food allergies, not eating the same meat more than once every 5 days. Never, ever, had a problem keeping food 5 days in the fridge. But the other thing you can do is just reheat meat thoroughly around the 4th or 5th day, and then you've bought yourself more time.

Generally speaking, I give everything a week in the fridge. I've never heard anything about a 4 day limit before.

I have a 7 day limit.
Smell it, try it, and if you're fine after an hour, it's a WIN!

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