My son fried chicken for the first time and I'm afraid he is going to get sick..

[BEG]

First he called me asking how to fry chicken tenders.  I asked him what spices he had and then told him which ones to put in some flour.  Told him to dip the chicken in either egg (actually dip it in flour then egg then flour again) or nothing at all then dip the chicken in the flour (he used egg). I told him to let the chicken rest a while after he floured it and heat up the oil in the mean time.  Then he sent me a picture of the chicken before he fried it asking me if it looked right. LOL  I txt him back and asked him for sure if it was BEFORE he fried it because I wasn't sure looking at the picture and if he hadn't fried it yet I was going to tell him it looked undercooked.  He told me it was before then sent me a picture of it after he fried it.  The cooked chicken was sitting right there on the SAME plate he had the uncooked chicken on...flour and egg on the plate too.   I txt him back and told him that you can't put cooked chicken on the same plate you had the uncooked chicken on.  He txt me back saying "lesson learned". 

Now I'm worried he will get Salmonella.  I told him to throw away the chicken he had left over and he really didn't want to but he did. I told him to call me if he started to get sick.  What are the chances he could get sick from the chicken? 

I think I used as many "I's" as Obama did in his SOTU speech tonight.   

[thundley4]

I think it might depend on how fresh the chicken was or at least how long it had been thawed out.

[BEG]

I think it might depend on how fresh the chicken was or at least how long it had been thawed out.

He thawed it today.  It scares me to think he could get sick from it.  One of my boyfriends from high school got salmonella from eating a bad turkey sandwich and had to be hospitalized.  He was in the hospital a week and was extremely sick. 

[kenth]

I'm betting it would have to be really off for him to get sick. Young guys usually have a strong gut, and I bet the errant chicken will miss him. From working in a meat market, the chicken here seems to be really clean.

I told him to throw away the chicken he had left over and he really didn't want to but he did.

My wife would have said the same thing. I would have re-fried it. 

[Oceander]

It's better to be safe than sorry in cases like that.  You did the right thing, and thank God he threw it away rather than take the risks.  Next time he'll know to be more careful.

[The Village Idiot]

I think the chances are pretty small really. Keep in touch though.

[BEG]

It's better to be safe than sorry in cases like that.  You did the right thing, and thank God he threw it away rather than take the risks.  Next time he'll know to be more careful.

He ate the chicken that was sitting on the uncooked chicken plate but had about four pieces left over, the left over was what I told him to throw out.

[debk]

He probably drank a beer with it and will be ok.

He also, most likely, ate it all anyway. Mine would have told me he threw it out, thought I was over-reacting, and gone ahead and ate it....

College boys have nearly indestructible intestinal tracts.

I know you will worry until you talk to him tomorrow and know that he is ok....but try not to make yourself crazy. If you knew half the stuff he does, you would be certifiable by now.

 

[BEG]

I'm betting it would have to be really off for him to get sick. Young guys usually have a strong gut, and I bet the errant chicken will miss him. From working in a meat market, the chicken here seems to be really clean.

My wife would have said the same thing. I would have re-fried it. 

LMAO that is what he suggested.  

I throw everything out, I am so wasteful.  My husband would eat anything.  Even cheese that had mold growing on it, he would just cut it off.  I would think of the fact that there was mold on it before it cut off and gag.  I wouldn't be able to eat it.  

[BEG]

He probably drank a beer with it and will be ok.

He also, most likely, ate it all anyway. Mine would have told me he threw it out, thought I was over-reacting, and gone ahead and ate it....

College boys have nearly indestructible intestinal tracts.

I know you will worry until you talk to him tomorrow and know that he is ok....but try not to make yourself crazy. If you knew have the stuff he does, you would be certifiable by now.

 

I'm sure he threw the rest of it out as I txt him info on salmonella which explained how it sucked.   

[Toastedturningtidelegs]

Did he rinse the chicken before dipping it in the flour? If so he will be fine!

[longview]

Hopefully he is fine.  Like FGL said, the chances are small since not all chicken has the bacteria.  And the chicken here is processed with a chlorine rinse (remember Russia just started refusing imported chicken from the U.S. because of this?)

I've talked each of my daughters through frying chicken over the phone.  Seemed to be a surprise for them on how long it really takes.

[Chris_]

He thawed it today.  It scares me to think he could get sick from it.  One of my boyfriends from high school got salmonella from eating a bad turkey sandwich and had to be hospitalized.  He was in the hospital a week and was extremely sick. 

It may have been the mayo on the turkey sandwich... people get sick from poultry a lot less than the media makes of it.   I wouldn't worry, especially since he cooked it. 

[Thor]

I throw everything out, I am so wasteful.  My husband would eat anything.  Even cheese that had mold growing on it, he would just cut it off.  I would think of the fact that there was mold on it before it cut off and gag.  I wouldn't be able to eat it.  

Mold on cheese is normal. I suppose you would never eat cheese again were you to see a round of cheese. It's been common practice for a LONG while to just cut the mold off of it.Do you eat Bleu Cheese?? Those "Blue things" inside are nothing but mold. Besides that, some molds are good for a person. Cheese molds are one of them.

It may have been the mayo on the turkey sandwich... people get sick from poultry a lot less than the media makes of it.   I wouldn't worry, especially since he cooked it.  

Newer studies have disproven the mayo myth unless the mayo is home made. The studies show that mayo may have protected people from some food-borne illnesses due to the citric acid (from the lemon juice) in it. That's probably the reason I prefer REAL Mayo over Miracle Whip.

http://www.ext.nodak.edu/extnews/newsrelease/2005/062305/03prairi.htm

[BEG]

Mold on cheese is normal. I suppose you would never eat cheese again were you to see a round of cheese. It's been common practice for a LONG while to just cut the mold off of it.Do you eat Bleu Cheese?? Those "Blue things" inside are nothing but mold. Besides that, some molds are good for a person. Cheese molds are one of them.

I can't know about it.  I'm sure there are things I have eaten that if I had seen them before they were prepared or packaged I wouldn't be able to eat.  I can rarely eat at my in-laws because I know that my MIL cuts mold off cheese and using things past their expiration date.  Her fridge is like a science experiment and she uses stuff that I would have thrown out days and days ago.  Everytime we are about to eat dinner there I have to think, "where did this come from, did the cat get on the counter while she was making it or could I die if it was bad?"    

[Wineslob]

He probably drank a beer with it and will be ok.

He also, most likely, ate it all anyway. Mine would have told me he threw it out, thought I was over-reacting, and gone ahead and ate it....

College boys have nearly indestructible intestinal tracts.

I know you will worry until you talk to him tomorrow and know that he is ok....but try not to make yourself crazy. If you knew half the stuff he does, you would be certifiable by now.

 

In my younger years I had an "iron gut". One time, while flyfishing a remote stream, I drank from it as I normally do. Later, about 150 yards upstream, I found a dead, half rotted deer in the stream. Never got sick.

[debk]

In my younger years I had an "iron gut". One time, while flyfishing a remote stream, I drank fromit as I normally do. Later, about 150 yards upstream, I found a dead, half rotted deer in the stream. Never got sick.

See....proof that young men of a certain age have indestructible intestional tracts....




at the same age, most girls would have been 

[Wineslob]

See....proof that young men of a certain age have indestructible intestional tracts....




at the same age, most girls would have been 

You haven't lived till you see the live mosquito larva in your water bottle as you're drinking from it.   

[BEG]

You haven't lived till you see the live mosquito larva in your water bottle as you're drinking from it.   

OMG I would just go ahead and die right there. 

Once I was drinking coke.  I had left it sit on the coffee table to go outside for a minute, came back in to take a drink and took several sips.  After about the 5th drink I felt something in my mouth.  A FLY was in my mouth.  I threw up.  My husband would have just swallowed the fly.  That is how he rolls. 

[DixieBelle]

^EWWWWWWW! Yeah, mine is the same way. He would totally eat something off the floor.

My MIL will let things that she's cooked sit out ALL DAY. I chowed down on some bacon (hey! it's BACON!) and then she told me that it was from the day before. Luckily it didn't kill me but ewwww. She is notorious for leaving food out "in case anyone gets hungry". Not me. I'm way too "Monk" to live that way.

[Lord Undies]

OMG I would just go ahead and die right there. 

Once I was drinking coke.  I had left it sit on the coffee table to go outside for a minute, came back in to take a drink and took several sips.  After about the 5th drink I felt something in my mouth.  A FLY was in my mouth.  I threw up.  My husband would have just swallowed the fly.  That is how he rolls. 

It's all meat. 

Why didn't you tell your son to take the chicken off the contaminated plate and put it back to fry for a minute or two.....then on to a clean plate?

[The Village Idiot]

Whats a little salmonella between friends?

[Thor]

OMG I would just go ahead and die right there. 

Once I was drinking coke.  I had left it sit on the coffee table to go outside for a minute, came back in to take a drink and took several sips.  After about the 5th drink I felt something in my mouth.  A FLY was in my mouth.  I threw up.  My husband would have just swallowed the fly.  That is how he rolls. 

That fly would have just been a little extra protein...........

[BEG]

It's all meat. 

Why didn't you tell your son to take the chicken off the contaminated plate and put it back to fry for a minute or two.....then on to a clean plate?

He had already eaten the chicken that was on the uncooked chicken plate.  He left the left over chicken on the uncooked chicken plate, covered it and put it in the fridge.  I told him to throw it out to be safe rather than sorry.

[BEG]

^EWWWWWWW! Yeah, mine is the same way. He would totally eat something off the floor.

My MIL will let things that she's cooked sit out ALL DAY. I chowed down on some bacon (hey! it's BACON!) and then she told me that it was from the day before. Luckily it didn't kill me but ewwww. She is notorious for leaving food out "in case anyone gets hungry". Not me. I'm way too "Monk" to live that way.

She sounds like my MIL.