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Defrosted Chicken Thighs

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Smowball | 18:28 Sun 10th Mar 2013 | Food & Drink
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I took them out of the freezer yesterday, to have today, but nobody is hungry. Will they keep till tomorrow or do I have to throw them?
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You could cook them now and serve them cold tomorrow.
I'd cook them and have them cold for lunch tomorrow.
I'm a pig when it comes to chicken :-)
Either cook them now to eat tomorrow or smell them tomorrow. You will soon know if they are off.
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I have no sense of smell whatsoever! lol
Was going to do a chicken casserole type thingy, hmmmm. Guess I could cook them today and have cold instead.
Well you could do a chicken casserole and just reheat it tomorrow. Or, if you have a slow cooker, put it in there overnight.
How long was left on the date when you froze them?
lol Eccles - you'd be horrified at me. I had some chicken thighs which I forgot about and they were a day past their use by. So I stuck em in the freezer. If they ming when they have defrosted, they are going out. If not, I'll cook them.
I'd eat them BM, as long as they're not green, furry or stinking! I would think twice about feeding to anyone outside the family though!
I wouldn't feed them to anyone else! But I've not poisoned Mr BM yet (although perhaps not for want of trying!!!! ;))
barmaid, I'm not horrified, we do that all the time.

OH has just told me that the couscous we had for dinner had a use-by of 2009....

Smow, cook the chicken, and eat it tomorrow. It'll be fine.
Sprinkle paprika on them, chuck them in the fridge and cook tomorrow. The spices should preserve them for another day!
"with a use-by date of 2009". No, it had a best before date in 2009 - not the same thing at all.
EHO guidelines are 24hr to defrost and cook within 48 hours. Once cooked and cooled they then have a life of 3 days. Then you can put them in the freezer. Defrost them for 24 hrs and then get another 3 day life out of them. Or alternatively just give them a good sniff and if Ok then they are Ok.
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They were bought already frozen eccles.
They'll be fine then.
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Cooee eccles : ) . They've all gone to bed and abandoned me again..... lol
Best before and use by are totally different. Use by is generally fresh things. Best before is dried food, canned food etc. I can't speak from experience but during the war many food stuff was canned and people were told it would last 20 years. This included cheese and cigarettes.
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That is very true jeza.
Of cource they will be Ok to cook tomorrow. If they have been frozen fresh once defrosted they could keep up to 4 days. The dates of food have nothing to do with if they go off. It is a system the supermarkets use to rotate their stock. All prepacked meals like Sweet and Sour Pork/Chinese and Indian Curries will keep at least another week after their sell by date.
I had some rice I cooked recently which had a sell by date of 2006. It was perfect.

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