Reheating cooked and reheated chicken - imminent death?

[sidekickdmr]

I made a huge vat of lovely chorizo and chickpea stew the other day, as I was making it I chucked in a packet of cooked chicken breast slices, you know, this kind of stuff:



so this cooked chicken, obviously got cooked/heated in the stew.

I popped all of the left over’s in Tupperware and was going to have it for dinner tonight, but its just dawned on me, that would be triple cooking/re-heating chicken, and that’s a no no isn’t it?

Would you go for it, re-heat it again, or imminent death if i do?

[85Carrera]

I made a chicken curry last week which was reheated on Saturday night with the remainder reheated again on Sunday. Haven't died yet.

[Shaw Tarse]

Go for it.

[Taita]

Be fine you great jessy! Heating it up properly will (probably) kill all bacteria if there is any.

[Dan_1981]

It'll be fine.

Don't sue me if you die.


I do it all the time.

[battered]

If refrigerated, no problem.

[sherman]

Will be fine. Just make sure its above 82c if you are concerned before consuming

[ATG]

A mate was given a partially decomposed baboon carcass as a tasty snack while training with the South African army. If you boil it for long enough, you can eat it, apparently. I imagine the same applies to your chicken stew.

[Riley Blue]

I just had a bowl of chicken soup for lunch. The chicken was cooked on Saturday, we had some more (reheated) on Sunday. I reheated it again yesterday when I made soup from what was left and I reheated the soup just now - I feel absolutel...... <thud>

[ShampooEfficient]

One of my regular batch-made work lunches is frozen chicken, cooked, frozen again then microwaved. Been doing for years with no ill effect.

Just make sure you absolutely nuke it in the microwave.

[battered]

ATG said:

A mate was given a partially decomposed baboon carcass as a tasty snack while training with the South African army. If you boil it for long enough, you can eat it, apparently. I imagine the same applies to your chicken stew.

Yuk. Usually.
This does not apply to Bacillus cereus (rice food poisoning) which produces a heat resistant toxin. So too (iirc) does Staph aureus. But generally if you eat it immediately you will survive.

[sidekickdmr]

Ok great, cheers guys

Im normally pretty blasé with food, expiary dates, room temp leftovers etc, but just wanted to check as never done the triple cook chicken before

Dinner tonight sorted, thanks

[Mobile Chicane]

The nose knows. If it smells ok, eat it.

Cats are good for this. They won't eat anything that's remotely 'off'.