Left meat in car

Merlin5 · 20 Jul 2021 at 19:09

I bought 1kg chicken legs, 1kg chicken drumsticks and Tesco reduced fat pork sausages yesterday afternoon and forgot to take them from the car until midday today. All sealed packages but do you think they'd be ok? I usually freeze them.

robfosters · 20 Jul 2021 at 19:10

No chance in this weather

lookitsjonno · 20 Jul 2021 at 19:15

Give them a whiff, nose never lets
me down

robfosters · 20 Jul 2021 at 19:19

It’s been sitting in a car for nearly 24 hours. God knows what temperature the car hits. Could be nearly 35-40 degrees.

It’s seriously not worth the risk.

DoneADougalOnSofa · 20 Jul 2021 at 19:20

No, no, and thirdly, no.

Did I mention 'No'?

montymint · 20 Jul 2021 at 19:28

Wouldn't risk it myself, the evenings have been dangerously warm (for bacteria growth).

Take the loss on the chin and be safe

Delvis · 20 Jul 2021 at 19:30

montymint said:
Wouldn't risk it myself, the evenings have been dangerously warm (for bacteria growth).

Take the loss on the chin and be safe

This is the issue, the bacteria.

Yes, you could probably cook it and kill it off but you'd have to cremate them I think

robfosters · 20 Jul 2021 at 19:33

Delvis said:
This is the issue, the bacteria.

Yes, you could probably cook it and kill it off but you'd have to cremate them I think

If the chicken is spoilt, no amount of cooking will make it safe to eat.

Delvis · 20 Jul 2021 at 19:36

robfosters said:
If the chicken is spoilt, no amount of cooking will make it safe to eat.

Hence cremation.

dave28 · 20 Jul 2021 at 19:36

i would throw it, food poisoning is vile. you can look like something out of the exocist

HoneyBadger · 20 Jul 2021 at 19:59

Yeah, I wouldn’t chance it.

Journey · 20 Jul 2021 at 20:09

Be totally fine if you want to make yourself extremely ill. *Vomit emoji*

Sui · 20 Jul 2021 at 20:10

What did it cost, like £6?

Trust me, you'd be happy to spend £6 to avoid that potential horror that will occur if consumed, I definitely wouldn't risk it in these temperatures.

jsmoke · 20 Jul 2021 at 20:19

You can kill the bacteria with heat but not the toxins produced from the bacteria.

Merlin5 · 20 Jul 2021 at 20:21

Ok thanks guys. The chicken does pong so I've binned them.

The sausages however smell perfectly fine, almost odourless and what odour there is is just the same as fresh. What do you think, keep?

Borealis · 20 Jul 2021 at 20:29

Not worth the risk. Just because the sausages don't pong doesn't mean they haven't already started going off. If the chicken already reeks, it's obviously been plenty hot enough for bacteria etc to breed and decay to start.

For the sake of a bad bout of gastro I really wouldn't chance it.

robfosters · 20 Jul 2021 at 20:29

Merlin5 said:
Ok thanks guys. The chicken does pong so I've binned them.

The sausages however smell perfectly fine, almost odourless and what odour there is is just the same as fresh. What do you think, keep?

Nope, pork is too much of a risk.

Food poisoning from pork can be very dangerous.

Zefan · 20 Jul 2021 at 20:43

Absolutely 100% no.

PlacidCasual · 20 Jul 2021 at 20:59

Sausages would be safer as they have a high salt conent and a large proportion of UK bangers have nitrates in them. Not conductive to bacterial growth. I kept sausages in my DoE back pack for three days marching round the Welsh countryside and ate them waiting for the coach home with no harm.

But as said above, not worth the risk.

Delvis · 20 Jul 2021 at 21:01

PlacidCasual said:
Sausages would be safer as they have a high salt conent and a large proportion of UK bangers have nitrates in them. Not conductive to bacterial growth. I kept sausages in my DoE back pack for three days marching round the Welsh countryside and ate them waiting for the coach home with no harm.

But as said above, not worth the risk.

Presumably that's when they're cooked..

Left meat in car

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