Chicken

Fatloss08

hey if u cook a few fillets in the oven , how long will they last in the fridge after ???? to have for snacks or part of meals

amazingemmet

Stick em in a tupperware and you'll get about 4 days out of them before they go too rubbery

c - 13

I cook them, freeze the cooked fillets in two's and then thaw as required. Last a lot longer that way.

EileenG

I slice them into thin stripes while still raw, then you can cook them from frozen in the same time as a rasher.

rubadub

You can wrap them in tinfoil first, with spices if you want. When cooked take them out and cool them quickly without ever opening up the tinfoil. I leave them on a rack outside the back so the wind cools them. Then cool in the fridge quickly.

Since they are still in tinfoil they were cooked "in a controlled environment", just like commercial cooked meat products are. The SECOND you open the tinfoil they are contaminated again, and more liable to go bad. If kept in tinfoil they should last as long as commercially available packs of cooked chicken.

Pressure cookers can be used to sterilize foods, this is what tinned and jarred foods really are, and why they can last indefinitely on a shelf at room temperature, but the moment they are opened in open air they are contaminated, within seconds. If kept cool the contaminations growth is very slow.

I also do what Eileen said. Put your palm on the breast and cut so you know have 2. Or cut half way and fold it out to become one big fillet. Now I put them in individual sandwich bags and lay them on a flat plate and freeze. If you lash them in they will stick together, and if they are not flat then they do not defrost very well, a flat one makes good contact with the pan.

tribulus

Rubadub you always have very detailed responses to food threads, do you work as a chef or just like your cooking?

Just being nosey curious!

Linoge

tribulus wrote: »

Rubadub you always have very detailed responses to food threads, do you work as a chef or just like your cooking?

Just being nosey curious!

I've noticed that too. He's a bit of a genius with all these food tips!

rubadub

tribulus wrote: »

do you work as a chef or just like your cooking?

Not a chef, but it has been suggested I should be before! I do just like my cooking/food and I like to know the science behind it, I had a hobby that involved sterilization of food, so know a lot about it. I also have a nerdy fascination with calorie counting.

Also when I was around 10 or 12 I used to come home late to dinner every saturday, the mother got pissed off and rhetorically said "you can cook your own from now on for saturdays", to which I said "grand!" and I started cooking all sorts, watching lots of cookery programs too, especially one Chinese cookery program called "wok with yan".

All these asian/ethnic stores popping up are great. There is a great one down in blackrock market now.

phunk

If you freeze it after its cooked its good for a really really really long time. I'd say a week in the fridge.