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How do you know if raw meat is bad?

curlypie1curlypie1
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I have two packs of bone in chicken breasts that had a sell by date of yesterday. I opened them up to prepare them and got blasted with a very strong smell. I wouldn't say it is a bad smell but just a strong one. Do you think it's gone bad? Would you cook it anyways?
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Re: How do you know if raw meat is bad?

  • Ttimes3Ttimes3

    I've pitched meat before the sell by date if it has a strong odor. However, I have meat issues, so I'm probably not normal.

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  • sistrkatesistrkate

    I have cooked chicken before if it was only a day past the sell-by date, but I don't know if I would do it if it presented a strong smell.  I'm very leery about poultry going bad, more so than other meats.

    However, I doubt that it's bad if the sell-by date was only yesterday.  Has it been in your fridge the whole time, or was it frozen?  If it was frozen, I would think it is OK.

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  • curlypie1curlypie1

    It's been in the fridge. I kept meaning to freeze it but I've been having an (extra) ditzy week.

    I'm wary about meat too so I guess I'll just err on the side of caution even though it leaves us with nothing for dinner tonight.

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  • SuperchicySuperchicy
    I've cooked meat a day past the date, but it's never had a funky smell.  Usually I pitch anything that smells when it's opened, meat really shouldn't have a strong odor to it.
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  • sistrkatesistrkate
    imagecurlypie1:

    It's been in the fridge. I kept meaning to freeze it but I've been having an (extra) ditzy week.

    I'm wary about meat too so I guess I'll just err on the side of caution even though it leaves us with nothing for dinner tonight.

    I hate when this happens.  It's why I always have pasta in the house, and barring that, the number to LaRosa's or a great Chinese place.  ;)

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  • curlypie1curlypie1

    Sistrkate, don't you secretly love dinner fails? I do. :-)

    We're having Donatos. Mmmm...

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  • buckeyethorbuckeyethor
    I am paranoid. I am wary of meat in the fridge more than 24 hours. I freeze all of it unless I am cooking it the day I buy it or the next. I also make my lactose intolerant husband try the milk after a few days. Embarrassed I just can't do it.
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  • sara401sara401
    I wouldn't use it if it smelled, but meat grosses me out to begin with!
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