I just remembered I forgot to turn the crock pot on this morning, will the food still be good when I get home?!
Answers: I have raw chicken breasts in the crock pot with bread crumbs, mozzarella cheese and tomato sauce on them. I had a timer set up to go on around 11am and off around 6pm when I get home, but I forgot to turn the actual unit on low, so when the timer kicks in it will start cooking. Will the food still be okay to cook when I get home (on high maybe) or will I have to throw this out?
I'll bet it is still good. After all, you are going to cook it to full temperature. I think you will need to cook it for about half of the original time on high instead.
PS--what time is dinner? That sounds really good!
I wouldn't take a chance , unless it was still cold or partly frozen..
It's possible the chicken may be frozen still. If not, I suppose if it has been covered it should be o.k...
It depends on the room temperature too.
Personally, I would just cook it through and eat it, but that's me. Remember, may other countries without refrigerators never cool their meat and it is usually o.k. for a day or too.
Hell no! Unless your kitchen is 40 degree or less...
Depends on how bad your phobia is about meat. I would personally turn it on and let it cook, I would just make sure that it gets fully cooked.
You probably should throw them out, I'm afraid. Raw chicken can be especially tricky when it comes to food poisoning and you could get very sick from eating meat that has been sitting uncooked and not in the fridge for over 2 hours, or really just over 1 hour. And this chicken will have sat out in a crockpot for many hours! I'm sorry about that, but I wouldn't trust it.
I wouldn't take the chance - food poisoning sucks! Especially chicken. take it as a loss and get take-out
You question is ambiguous.
You say, "so when the timer kicks in it will start cooking."
That indicates it is going to be on high from 11:00am-6:00pm. (so it is going to be very well cooked)
You say "Will the food still be okay to cook when I get home"
It will be already cooked and piping hot.
You will only need to toss it, if it dries out and burns.