I cooked chicken soup and freeze it.For how long I can eat it
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How do I know if a given food or ingredient I have is still good, or if I should discard it?  How can I best preserve a food or ingredient?     This broad question is intended as a "general reference" question to quickly answer many how long will food keep for? questions. Please feel free to edit this question to expand and clarify as needed.
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The bags of frozen mushrooms and okra that I just bought got mistakenly put into the refrigerator for a few days instead of frozen. I want to eat them now.  What's the problem with letting bagged veggies thaw and then eating them? Is there a danger of food poisoning?
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I am planning to place a meal (salmon + rice) in a refrigerator after having frozen it. How can I tell when it's thawed?
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I do not have enough time to bake my bread.  Can I refrigerate it or let it sit on the counter and bake it later in the day?
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I accidentally left meat in the trunk of my car, it's so cold outside it froze, can I still use it?
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It strikes me as an unsafe food practice to follow Cook's Illustrated's advice for soaking dried beans for 24 hours unrefrigerated.  I've also seen them suggest you soak steel-cut oats unrefrigerated overnight.    Is there some reason why these practices are okay?  Would there be any harm in refrigerating them, particularly the beans, while soaking?  From Cook's Illustrated:     Dissolve 3 tablespoons salt in 4 quarts cold water in large bowl or   container. Add [one pound] beans and soak at room temperature for at least 8 hours   and up to 24 hours. Drain and rinse well.
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We were on vacation for a week. The neighbor said we were out of power the whole time.  We have a chest freezer full of beef. It thawed but remained in the freezer unopened the whole time. Is the meat bad if it is thawed but still cold? Can we refreeze it and eat it?
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I only prepare sushi rice a few times a year, so it takes me a while to go through even the smallest of bags.  How long can I keep the bag for before it "goes bad"?
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If I ate from 7:00 until 7:30am,   At 7:10, could I say      I am eating for 10 minutes?  At 7:40, could I say      I ate for 30 minutes, 10 minutes ago?
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I use a simple fried chicken recipe: wash chicken (I use thighs), dredge in seasoned flour, dip in egg with a bit of milk, re-dredge in flour, shake and fry. The dish comes out great on the day I cook it, but loses its crunch the next day when I want to take it as part of a picnic lunch. Is there a way to avoid the limp-crusted fried chicken on day 2?  P.S. I remove skin and all visible fat, and I drain on paper towels both top and bottom sides.
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I am trying to finish soups faster. I have very heavy iron kettle and it takes years to become cold. I use a water container with ice with it but the hot water still takes a lot time to become cold. I have already put ice cubes into the soup and some cold water but it is still hot! How can I freeze my soup fast without destroying the content of my fridge or freezer? It is now almost two hours waiting it to become colder but with this heavy iron kettle and a lot of hot water, it is taking years.  Could I put the soup into small plastic bags and the plastic bags into the cold water and then the cold plastic bags into the fridge (I have no special plastic bags, perhaps they will break)? I need to somehow make the soup smaller to increase the area, to get it cold faster. By increasing the area, I am sure I can get it cold faster. Ideas to do that?
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As through the week we too busy to cook we have gotten the idea of cooking a big bunch of food in the weekend, storing it in the fridge and eat it later in the week.  I am a bit concerned how long things will stay good in the fridge. For example mashed potatoes (which is prepared with milk), minced meat steaks or a cream-based sauce.  Are there any general rules of thumb that can be used to estimate how long things will stay good? And are there any 'dangerous' foods, foods that can be spoiled but not show any mold or smell strange, but are not good to eat?
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I put chicken breasts and a bunch of salsa into a slow cooker to be cooked while I slept. I forgot to turn it on. When I woke up I noticed and put it back in the fridge.  I plan to cook it tonight (and hopefully not forget to turn it on).  Is this a bad idea?  I will note that the salsa appeared to insulate the chicken because it was still cool to the touch (not COLD though) when I discovered it in the morning.  Total time out of fridge would be about 9 hours.  EDIT: This is not a duplicate of the suggested question because I had a thought that it might be ok due to the chicken being slightly insulated and still cool. I have realized it is still not safe from the answers.
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I've soaked some beans in room temperature water overnight, since 6pm (white navy beans).    How long can I keep them in water before I must use them?   Will they last a day or so at room temperature and in water, or should I drain and store in the fridge, or must I cook with them immediately?
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Storing various meals and products in fridge (or freezer) can result in mixing different flavours, which isn't that great. What are your best practises to avoid the smell?
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Just cooked some chicken breasts today. All day in the crockpot and when done the meat was horribly dry.  I put chopped onions, carrots, spices, and coconut milk and 1/2 cup water and 4 chicken breasts.  There was plenty of fluid there when it was done, but the cooked chicken meat was really dry.  This seems to happen with beef roast as well.  Is there some trick to getting meat to be tender when cooking in the crockpot?
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I kept all of the bacon grease from making bacon this weekend, and now I have a jar of solidified grease in the fridge. How long can I use this to impart bacony goodness to my fried vegetables before it goes bad?  What is the shelf life of the fat drippings from bacon, roast and other meats?