Would you eat this?

[ILiveInFlipFlops]

Grrr. Last night I brought home two vacuum sealed packs of chicken from BJ's (the kind where the two packs are attached and you cut them apart). I didn't know how much chicken I'd need for a soup recipe I was making for the first time, so I cut one pack off and cooked it in the pot, and I put the other one on my counter where I was doing all my prep work, figuring I would know in a few minutes if I needed to cook that pack too. Well, apparently at some point I put the pot lid on top of it, and in the whirlwind of frying and chopping and cooking and shredding, I forgot all about it. DH found it at around 10 p.m. when he was cleaning up the counter :( I brought it home from the store around 5:45, so it was at room temp for a little over four hours. I should have just cooked it right then, but we were in the middle of bedtime and kitchen cleanup and packing up his lunch for the next day, and it didn't occur to me. 

 

It's probably $7 worth of Harvestland organic chicken breast. Does the fact that it's from BJ's matter? I feel like their quality control is generally less stringent that Costco's, though maybe not less stringent than that of the average grocery store. I don't know--the employees at our BJ's seem to be bumblers in general. Maybe that's just here!

 

So! Would you cook it and eat it now?

 

Thanks.

 

 

[Miss Peregrine]

I would use it. It was cold for part of those 4 hours and then room temp.

[AmandaVT]

I wouldn't. Chicken freaks me out - I'd ok if it were cheese and maybe even steak, but chicken scares me. A night of violent food poisoning isn't worth $7. 

[Monica_in_Switzerland]

I would rinse it, then cook it very thoroughly- maybe poached and then shredded for tacos or chicken salad.  

 

But I live life on the wild side when it comes to food safety, so...  

[Janie Grace]

Nope. Chicken scares me.

[Loowit]

Nope.  Food poisoning is horrible and I wouldn't be willing to chance it.

[Debbi in Texas]

I would eat it-but I eat things that others might consider questionable all the time.