Chicken safe 3rd day?

Farmor your point about the importance of thorough cooking at the start. I've heard of people putting partially thawed out chickens in to roast.
I've just remembered once I was helping a caterer to prepare a meal for a crowd. It included large joints of chicken legs.
Something was wrong with the ovens and when it was time to serve they were still red near the bone. The whole lot were rejected (I don't know what he did with them.)

As long as your fridge is 5℃ or colder, it will be perfectly safe to eat for four or five days at least.

I don't know how it was made Bluebelle. But I was violently sick quite a few times totally out of the blue. And I remembered next morning having lukewarm chicken soup.
Very helpful everyone. thanks.

I m afraid I m not very careful at all I use my nose and if it smells ok I eat it I ve neve4 used theometers or any other gadget just my snozzle
Was the soup made from uncooked chicken then ? Surely ordinary soup reheated but not very warm wouldn’t cause a problem ?

And, Nfkdumpling, you can bet that the prepacked cooked chicken you buy in a shop hasn't been carved from a freshly cooked chicken on the day you buy it, it's probably already a few days old. Admittedly the sealed packaging will help, but cooked meat is safe for quite a few days.
My mother used to make the Christmas turkey last until New Year, when the last of it would appear in vol-au-vents. No one was ill.

Good grief!

You would be horrified by what I do with my turkey!

Roast, then cold with bubble and squeak, then cold with chips, then made into a pie along with some of the left over gammon, only on on the 5th day do any left overs get put into the freezer!

Been doing this for over 30 years, never poisoned or made any one ill yet.

Sensible food hygiene, if you are going to re-heat it, then pretty damn hot (as in my pie, needs a good high temp to get the pastry lovely and crispy and golden) and make sure your fridge is set correctly cold enough.

In this house:
Day One - roast chicken dinner
Day Two - cold chicken breast with salad
Day Three - chicken stew/curry.

I have done this most weeks for years and we are still here!

If you buy cooked chicken slices it has a three day use by date and I’ve heard it’s a safe at least a day beyond that if kept refrigerated. But I too agree with grannyticktock re re-heating.

Thanks so much everyone. How have I reached 67 without knowing this? I have wasted so much! So good to have Gransnet.
Incidentally the lukewarm soup was not mine. We were staying in a (supposedly) good hotel. And I remember saying to my husband its not very warm. It didn't occur to me that it would poison me. Was sick all night long.

I think it will be fine.

My tried and trusted method is to give food a good sniff and, if it smells ok, try a little nibble before you tuck in

Well cooked, in fridge, will be fine

As a microbiologist, I’d agree with grannyticktock’s advice. I definitely wouldn’t put in oven to reheat. The main danger from chicken is not cooking properly in the first place. Once fully cooked, there is little danger from food poisoning, if kept in fridge, even for as long as a week.

Agree with everything grannyticktock said

If you're nervous with food, particularly meat, then I would recommend you buy yourself a meat thermometer. Then you could see for yourself that any reheated meat is thoroughly heated right through to the centre. And as long as it is, it'll be fine.
Heavens, my mum used to make a joint last all week, recooking it into pies and stews. And I always use up chicken for at least 4 days, as long as it's kept in the fridge.

I wouldn't reheat a chicken carcase in the oven. By the time you've got it hot enough to kill bacteria, it will have dried up quite a bit more. Remove all the meat from the carcase (using the bones for stock if you like) and then either eat the meat cold, or reheat it thoroughly in a cooked dish such as risotto or a pie. If you have whole slices you'd prefer to serve hot, put them in a covered dish with some gravy or stock and heat thoroughly in the oven or the microwave.

I got food poisoning few years ago from lukewarm chicken soup. was going to heat it in the oven again. Is that ok?

I cook chicken every week and leave it in the fridge and eat it over three days. No problem as long as it's in fridge and covered.

Thanks everyone. appreciated. I'm very nervous with food.

Good grief nothing wrong with that eaten it much older than that if it smells good it eats good

Well a roast chicken in this house always lasts more than 3 days so as long as your fridge is set to the right temperature it will be fine.

Absolutely eat it, chicken cooked at the weekend is eaten any time up until Thursday during the week. You can even freeze it as long as you heat it through thoroughly when you need it.

It will be fine as it will have been only left for 2 days since cooking it.
Whenever I cook chicken which is a Saturday for Sunday, I usually finish it on Monday or even Tuesday,curried.

Certainly eat it. If it’s been in the fridge, looks a good colour and smells as it should I’d have no worries at all.

Years ago when there were no fridges we kept out Christmas chicken on the kitchen table for a week.there was no heating in those days. After the week the bones were made into stock. No one got ill. Noro virus was unheard of