How will you know if the chicken is spoiled: How long is it allowed to keep cooked chicken?

Wondering if the chicken you kept on Saturday is still fit to eat?

And what do we do if we do not remember what day we made the chicken?

Are there dishes that last longer?

And how best to keep the chicken?

All the answers inside

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28/02/2022

Monday, 28 February 2022, 08:00 Updated: 08:32

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How long is it allowed to save?

Drunk chicken (Cook or Van) (Photo: Nimrod Saunders)

"When exactly did I make this chicken and is it still fit to eat?"

If you too have found yourself standing in front of a box that you pulled out of the fridge and wondering - this article is for you.

You open the box, and on the face of it it looks fine, the smell is not necessarily bad, but something feels a bit off, and you do not know if it is possible to eat, or it is better to avoid.

"Is it safe to eat it for lunch?"

You wonder to yourself, hoping to avoid having to cook something new again, on a day that is already busy.

Think if it would be okay to turn the chicken into a chicken salad, maybe cook it for a quick soup.

The FOOD52 website decided to examine in depth the essential issue - how long after cooking is it allowed to consume the chicken?

And how best to preserve it?

Here are some interesting insights we have gleaned from there.

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Chicken breast, saved less time than a whole chicken (Photo: Alon Mesika)

According to the American Food and Drug Administration, cooked chicken (whether roasted whole chicken, rotisserie style), or broken into pieces, like chicken breast or shanks, will last three to four days in the refrigerator, or four to six months in the freezer.

The longer period of time, is usually for dishes like chicken soup or coke a wine (chicken bain), which will last longer.

In any case, after this period of time, it can be said with some confidence that the chicken must have spoiled and that it may have started to grow bacteria.

Aside from the time component, a few other signs that the cooked chicken is no longer safe to eat - if it has a mucous texture, a distinct pungent odor, and in any case, even if these signs do not appear, if you remember for sure the chicken was prepared a week or more ago - trash.

Chicken soup, well preserved for several days (Photo: Edith Ozon)

Some more tips:

- You should keep chicken, meat, fish and other sensitive products in the back left corner of the refrigerator.

This has a significant impact on the longevity of these products, before and after cooking.

The back of the refrigerator is always the coldest and safest for storing meat and dairy products.

This way the products are as far away as possible from the air that enters when the refrigerator door opens and closes.

- Every time you bring the dish to a pasteurization temperature - the clock resets.

That is, if you make chicken chicken stock that you cooked a few days earlier, you will actually earn a few more days in which you can eat the chicken.

- and to avoid over-adoption of memory, and a desperate attempt to recall "When did I make this chicken?"

It is advisable to stick a sticker with the date you cooked the chicken on the box, just as you do in restaurants, and to avoid poisoning your food or that of your family members.

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