Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and the Yahoo Answers website is now in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

bobweb
Lv 7
bobweb asked in Food & DrinkCooking & Recipes · 1 decade ago

Does frying or heating outdated foods kill bacteria and make them edible?

Oftentimes my meats, chicken, fish and other supermarket purchases are well over the use by date. Why can't I fry or microwave the heck out of them to kill all bacteria and be able to keep from throwing good food into the garbage?

6 Answers

Relevance
  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    you can do this, but by the time you have sufficiently raised the temperature all the way through the meat to kill the germs, it will be inedible for other reasons :(

  • 5 years ago

    To an extent. You should never cook raw chicken or beef in the microwave, but if the food is already cooked to an internal temperature of 180F or greater, and you are heating it up for say, leftovers, you will be just fine and it will kill off the bacteria. However, the way the micro waves are transmitted you can not cook raw meat in the microwave because it will cook unevenly the rays of the microwave cook at slanted positions and some spots are not throroughly cooked, this is why you have to stir items and rotate them to cook them evenly when reheating. Good luck!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    because thats unsafe. you can get a horrible sickness like ecol i or salmonella it wont work because the microwave will cook the meat not kill the bacteria. If you want to do it dip them in boiling water. but be aware they rot not from bacteria

  • 1 decade ago

    because in order to kill most of the bacteria you would need to heat the food up to over 100 degrees

  • 1 decade ago

    it won't work. Freeze them before they go out of date.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    eww don't do it. i personally won't. nor do i think its going to help.

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.