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Started cooking chicken in crock pot at 4 pm. I cooked until midnight.husband came downstairs and unplugged it. It cooled on the counter until 8 a.m. this morning is my chicken still good? Or can I reboil it and making it a chicken salad?

Candice
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  • Definitely, unambiguously not safe to eat. Not even in a gray area. Your chicken spent 8 hours in the temperature range between "hot" and "room temperature". It's not food anymore. Now it's a petri dish of bacteria and the toxic compounds those bacteria produce. Cooking it again will not get rid of the toxic compounds. Throw it out. Next time, put a big sign on the crock pot plug saying DO NOT UNPLUG. – csk Sep 20 '20 at 15:25
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    @csk - that's just appalling 'scare tactics'. if it was cooked through properly in the first 8 hours & the lid left on, it's 99% chance to be perfectly good. The 1% is the reason such as the FDA have such strict guidelines. – Tetsujin Sep 20 '20 at 15:31
  • @Tetsujin That would be a reasonable position if the chicken had sat in a sealed crock pot for several hours. But this chicken sat for eight hours. That's far, far beyond the point where you can say, "Well, maybe it's okay to eat." – csk Sep 20 '20 at 16:13
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    No, it really isn't. It's far beyond what might be unsafe in an absolute "we're the government, responsible for the safety of all commercial kitchen output", but I'm pretty sure after 40 years of leaving out takeaways or any dinner I made too much of, to finish off for brunch, I've avoided the russian roulette long enough to claim empirically it's dramatically over-cautious. – Tetsujin Sep 20 '20 at 16:45

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