I had a whole chicken that I had frozen. Is it safe to eat?!
I had a whole chicken that I had frozen. Is it safe to eat?
I had frozen this chicken about a week or 2 ago. Well I took it out to defrost and to cook it.When I opened the chicken up, it had some small black spots on it, well under the skin. I started to look at the spots closer as I had never seen this. I was moving the skin around andmessing with it and one of the black things popped out. You could pinch thiem out like you could a pimple. I was so grossed out by this that I could not even think to eat it. There was I am sure 40 of these black things on it. Would it have been safe?
Additional Details1 week ago
Can someone tell me what this was
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1 week ago
Can someone tell me what this was
Wow, you people have never been on a farmed or worked in a butcher shop! The things she popped out were caused by a badly plucked chicken. This is the follicle of the pin feather. Kinda gross but not dangerous. You can clean them up or just skin the chicken. That is healthier, but I for one love chicken skin, especially fried! Yum!
Good god, no. Never eat a chicken pimple (that's what my grandmother used to tell me).
Oh yes, safe and appetizing. If you were so disgusted, then why tell us? I think all meat is gross.
Take back to where you bought it
Ewwww. I highly doubt it. I have never seen that before and I would certainly not eat it.
Sounds wierd. If your unsure about it, just take the skin off and cook it that way. As long as the bird smells ok, it should be fine.
Heck no...that is nasty
I wouldn't have eaten it either.. better to be safe than sorry. I think I would call the store I bought it at and make a complaint!
Take a picture and show us! I've never heard of that problem before.
>>>>Can you tell me what would cause black mold spots to grow on the chicken?<<<<<
Darkening of meat around poultry bones can occur in young chickens. Since the bones have not calcified or hardened completely, pigment from the bone marrow seeps through the bones and into the surrounding meat. Freezing can also contribute to this darkening. This is not a food safety issue but an aesthetic one. If this is the cause of your black spots, the chicken is safe to eat when cooked to 82C/180F.
http://www.canfightbac.org/cpcfse/en/coo...
If the black spots were on the skin, it would probably be the base of the feather, and it does pop out like a pimple, that's why I skin my chicken now before I cook it. I don't like any feathers on my food, but you are saying the black spots were on the meat? I don't know what that would be, so I'd say throw it away. It's not worth the taking the chance of getting sick.
All this is, is where the production plant ran the chicken through a burner and burned off the feathers. It won't hurt you.
it's bacteria from the bone...I'm glad you didn't eat it...you could have gotten food poisoning.