Is my food rotten?

[edro]

So I get those frozen raw chicken breasts in those 5lb bags, and I boil them in water to cook them. Then I cut them up a little bit, and put them in ziplock containers (the re-useable tupperwear-like stuff, that doesn't seal quite as good as a Ziploc bag, or a real Tupperwear dish.

How long would boiled chicken last in one of these containers? I have 2 chicken breasts that I forgot about, that have been in there for about 10 days. I smelled them, and they smell good... but that bacteria can be sneaky...

What do you think? I am leaning towards eating it... I mean, if it smells fine, it should be good to eat, right? Isn't that why we evolved to notice rotting flesh, so we wouldn't eat it? 🙂

 

[Coquito]

Nuke it. 🙂

 

[TwinkleToes77]

10 days is pushing it.. i normally play the safe side and say a week at most..

 

[nageov3t]

if you need to ask.....

 

[KarenMarie]

If they don't smell and they don't feel slimey then cook them really well all the way thru... if they still don't smell, then taste it.

But if you eat them and get sick... don't blame me.

😉

 

[Toastedlightly]

Originally posted by: loki8481
if you need to ask.....

then nuke it on high for 5 minutes.

 

[Crucial]

If it isn't slimy or green and it smells fine it is good to go.

 

[ironcrotch]

Just eat it... and report back on the results. 😛

 

[globalcitizen]

Why dont you eat it sitting in your favorite place in the bathroom surrounded by antiacid pills and stuff. We need to hear back from you. Think of it as a great scientific experiment to mankind... or at least ATkind

 

[Schadenfreude]

Eat it - what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except strokes. That sh!t messes people up. :thumbsup:

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: globalcitizen
Why dont you eat it sitting in your favorite place in the bathroom surrounded by antiacid pills and stuff. We need to hear back from you. Think of it as a great scientific experiment to mankind... or at least ATkind

haha

 

[shimsham]

Originally posted by: TwinkleToes77
10 days is pushing it.. i normally play the safe side and say a week at most..

 

[DrPizza]

Chicken: if it smells bad... don't eat it. If it smells fine, it probably is fine. Proper cooking to a proper temperature will kill the bacteria, regardless of how good it is. I've heard stories (not that I wanted to) from grandparents who lived through the depression. Back then, refrigerators weren't electric. They'd scrape the mold off their meat before cooking it sometimes. They lived.

 

[loup garou]

Boiled chicken?

Please tell me you make chicken salad with it.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: werk
Boiled chicken?

Please tell me you make chicken salad with it.

sounded pretty gross to me too. Best bet though would be chicken soup... he can boil that chicken for 2 hours to kill all the bad germs.