Topic: Opinion on freezing pre cooked chicken

[littlechilie]

Yep I am always happy to defrost raw chicken precook it and then freeze, the chicken is cooked and frozen in its sauce along with all the whole spice I use in the precook.
I just add a little water to every portion of meat and sauce too keep it as tender as possible.
This IMO Gives my chicken a wonderful deep flavour

[Onions]

Think they say you can freeze twice from raw.
Raw-Freeze-defrost-cook-freeze-defrost-eat.

No.
"They" say, once something frozen has been defrosted it can't be re-frozen; but if something is cooked and then frozen, it doesn't matter if it was (in its previous state) fresh or frozen.

I.e., it can be frozen once from whatever state it is in.

[Onions]

I believe rice is the main culprit for that.

So everybody says but I don't know anyone who's been bad with it (yet).

Agreed. Chinese recipe for fried rice generally instructs that the rice to be fried is anywhere between one and three days old...

[Edwin Catflap]

So DO

You can defrost raw chicken, cook and then re freeze, then defrost, cook and eat?

Ed

[Gav Iscon]

So DO

You can defrost raw chicken, cook and then re freeze, then defrost, cook and eat?

Ed

I used to have this discussion at work about frozen chicken  being cooked from frozen. Look at it like a supermarket meal They're cooked, cooled and then bought and reheated or they're cooked, frozen and either best cooked from frozen or defrosted and cooked /reheated.

[Onions]

So DO

You can defrost raw chicken, cook and then re freeze, then defrost, cook and eat?

Ed

Yes- but note- you're not 'cooking' the chicken second time around- just heating it up.

[littlechilie]

Ed


Yes- but note- you're not 'cooking' the chicken second time around- just heating it up.


Fully Agreed 

[leodis1970]

Likewise, know the "dangers" of rice, but never suffered, nor know anyone that has. Same with Chilli or Garlic oil - spent years making those with raw ingredients, again no ill effects, but evidentally if you don't cook it first you risk botulism! A bit of nanny state coming into play here - most of us curry lovers have stomachs of iron!

[bamble1976]

I regularly freeze, defrost, cook, refreeze in curry, reheat my chicken.  not sure how safe it is but never had a problem.....yet

Barry