Reheating chicken?

[growingvegetables]

If you had rice with it...i wouldn't reheat the rice.

Hmm - I do that all the time.

Basically because I found a recipe for the way Iranian housewives cook rice ... and it is gorgeous (well worth the effort, despite being a bit fiddly and time-consuming, and not working for small one-person quantities).

Simple precautions? As soon as it's cool enough, it's in to the fridge or freezer - all ready to make a kedgeree or whatever at a later date.

 

[classic33]

Seems weird to me,why cook them then freeze them, then defrost?, Why not just put raw ones in the freezer then defrost and cook?.
Looking at your way of doing things you are heating them/cooking them 3 times?
I think you might end up wih food poisoning if you dont watch it, meat isnt supposed to be continally reheated like this.Have you been on a food hygiene course? they talk about things like this.
You need to be very carefull you dont want to end up really poorly.

Making the most of what he had maybe?

 

[growingvegetables]

I think you might end up wih food poisoning if you dont watch it, meat isnt supposed to be continally reheated like this.

With a bit of care and sensible precautions, food poisoning is the least of his worries.

I'd be more worried about a cooking regime more suitable for what ... tenderising shoe soles? Or turning tender meat into shoe sole material?

 

[Crackle]

Crosses off going to mr.P's for curry.......

 

[classic33]

Crosses off going to mr.P's for curry.......

Can't be that bad!

 

[Fab Foodie]

[QUOTE 4985691, member: 45"]When I do egg fried rice I run the rice under the cold tap when it's finished boiling to cool it.[/QUOTE]
Good man, then get it in the fridge if you're not going to fry it for a while :-)

 

[Fab Foodie]

Hmm - I do that all the time.

Basically because I found a recipe for the way Iranian housewives cook rice ... and it is gorgeous (well worth the effort, despite being a bit fiddly and time-consuming, and not working for small one-person quantities).

Simple precautions? As soon as it's cool enough, it's in to the fridge or freezer - all ready to make a kedgeree or whatever at a later date.

Don't wait for it to be 'cool enough', just whack it in the fridge pronto.

 

[ianrauk]

yep, have done exactly that on a regular basis and im not dead yet apparently.

 

[Fab Foodie]

yep, have done exactly that on a regular basis and im not dead yet apparently.

I think we need a poll on that....

 

[roadrash]

Hmm - I do that all the time.

Basically because I found a recipe for the way Iranian housewives cook rice ... and it is gorgeous (well worth the effort, despite being a bit fiddly and time-consuming, and not working for small one-person quantities).

Simple precautions? As soon as it's cool enough, it's in to the fridge or freezer - all ready to make a kedgeree or whatever at a later date.

come on then share the recipe...

 

[theclaud]

Now that we've sorted out the food hygiene questions, is it OK for us all to join GV and Crax and pile in with the ruthless culinary criticism? Patrick appears to be away, and we've got to amuse ourselves somehow.

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

Yes, but if there's any left over after that, eat it cold.

Oh, and stop talking about food, you're making me hungry!

 

[growingvegetables]

Don't wait for it to be 'cool enough', just whack it in the fridge pronto.

I'm not yet convinced. Sorry!

Apart from personal experience (yeah, I know that's a year of worthless, but good-eating, anecdata ), it is really hard to find any hard evidence on the actual ill-effects of Bacillus cereus. Loads of "Can-eating-reheated-rice-give-you-food-poisoning?" type links. Can it? Of course it can ... that I'm not disputing.

But does it? Honest question!

The nearest I can find to hard data is this. '... this type of food poisoning is less frequent now than it was in the 1970s, when fried rice was a common culprit.

"Restaurants would cook steamed rice one day, then leave the rice out overnight to cook as fried rice the next day – so it had been sitting around for a day and the Bacillus spores had germinated, grown and produced the toxins.'

Well, well, well - I don't leave my rice sitting around for a day!

If you have better information than I've been able to find, I'd like to know ... seriously!

In the meantime, I avoid chicken, and have done for many years - a far higher risk, imho.

 

[growingvegetables]

Now that we've sorted out the food hygiene questions, is it OK for us all to join GV and Crax and pile in with the ruthless culinary criticism? Patrick appears to be away, and we've got to amuse ourselves somehow.

I'm just sore about the flesh of a couple of boiling chickens that I have sitting in the freezer. Made some brilliant stock for several good meals ... but, oh dear, most of the meat is still sitting in the freezer. The little I have used? "Less than inspiring" .

 

[Fab Foodie]

I'm not yet convinced. Sorry!

Apart from personal experience (yeah, I know that's a year of worthless, but good-eating, anecdata ), it is really hard to find any hard evidence on the actual ill-effects of Bacillus cereus. Loads of "Can-eating-reheated-rice-give-you-food-poisoning?" type links. Can it? Of course it can ... that I'm not disputing.

But does it? Honest question!

The nearest I can find to hard data is this. '... this type of food poisoning is less frequent now than it was in the 1970s, when fried rice was a common culprit.

"Restaurants would cook steamed rice one day, then leave the rice out overnight to cook as fried rice the next day – so it had been sitting around for a day and the Bacillus spores had germinated, grown and produced the toxins.'

Well, well, well - I don't leave my rice sitting around for a day!

If you have better information than I've been able to find, I'd like to know ... seriously!

In the meantime, I avoid chicken, and have done for many years - a far higher risk, imho.

It does and I can't be arsed to look-up the evidence. It's well reported. People are aware of the issue these days compared to the 70's. But it still happens.
Chicken if handled properly is no big issue either, it's the handled properly bit that's the issue.