A one hour interuption in cooking chicken, will it be safe to eat? [duplicate]

I half boiled chicken legs and thighs, put them in my Crock Pot with BBQ sauce, put the slow cooker on high, but forgot to plug it in. I discovered my mistake an hour later. So I quickly put them in the oven to finish cooking. They were still steamy hot when I took them out of the crock pot, but I didn't take their temperature. Will they be safe to eat?

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Best Answer

Generally the USDA recommends that if food has been in the "danger zone" (between 41 and 140°F) for two hours, it is unsafe to eat. Here's the guide. If the food is in the upper end of the "danger zone" the safe time shortens to an hour.

So, your chicken is right on the cusp of being considered unsafe to eat. If the chicken was colder than 140° when you put it in the crock pot, I wouldn't want to risk it. That said, if the surface was boiling hot when it was put in, it probably wouldn't have spent that full hour in the "danger zone" and still be ok.

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Can you partially cook chicken then finish later?

Information. No, never brown or partially cook chicken to refrigerate and finish cooking later because any bacteria present would not have been destroyed. It is safe to partially pre-cook or microwave chicken immediately before transferring it to the hot grill to finish cooking.

Can chicken be cooked twice?

Chicken is no different from other meats, and you can reheat it safely two or more times. When you reheat chicken, it is important that you properly heat it the whole way through. Pieces of chicken must be steaming in the middle.

How long can partially cooked chicken sit out?

As a rule, you should throw away cooked or uncooked meat that has been left out at room temperature for more than 2 hours.

Can you Rebake undercooked chicken?

The more undercooked it is, and the sooner you want to eat it, the thinner you'll want to slice it. Place the meat in an oiled roasting pan or Dutch oven; drizzle it with some stock, sauce, or water; cover it with aluminum foil; and bake the whole thing in a 400\xb0 F oven until cooked.

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