Let's play Would You Eat This?

[Michelle T]

Raw chicken breasts in my fridge for a week. The sell-by date is March 15.

So, are these safe to cook for dinner tonight, or would you toss them?
Michelle T

[abbeyej]

Usually you have a few days from the sell-by date, so the March 15 wouldn't distress me.

I'd unwrap them. Raw chicken stinks to high heaven well before it's actually unsafe to eat, so it's a pretty easy one to gauge. If it smells unpleasant, toss 'em, but if they smell okay (which they probably will -- you're within the use by dates), go ahead and cook them. I'd want to use them tonight or at the latest tomorrow though.

[susie in tx]

Raw chicken in the states shouldn't smell when you cook it. I did not find this to be the case when I purchased raw chicken in Macedonia. They must use different kinds of chickens. Anyway, they are generally quite fresh and smell like chicken when raw. They taste a lot more like chicken, too, even more than the pastured poultry that I buy here in the States on occasion.

[Adrianne]

Usually you have a few days from the sell-by date, so the March 15 wouldn't distress me.

I'd unwrap them. Raw chicken stinks to high heaven well before it's actually unsafe to eat, so it's a pretty easy one to gauge. If it smells unpleasant, toss 'em, but if they smell okay (which they probably will -- you're within the use by dates), go ahead and cook them. I'd want to use them tonight or at the latest tomorrow though.

:iagree:

[Mrs. Readsalot]

If is stinks toss it.

[*anj*]

If is stinks toss it.

That's what I was going to say! :iagree: