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I am obviously, I’m late to the party here, I trust the nose! Another sign is how did the skin feel? If it was “tacky”, no go!
that said, I have been known to rinse the chicken and smell again. And this is speaking to texastweeter comment above about the cryovac stank. Was it cryovac’d with no broken seals or just on the little tray with rather loose plastic?
Exactly what I do. If after a rinse and a pat dry with paper towels the odor is still there, or if the skin feels....I can't really describe it other than ODD, I toss it.
I'm going to throw this out there. With the way the world seems to be on the hard slide to oblivion (again), perhaps we should start training our digestive systems to process these kinds of food. I had a good friend who was captured in the Philippines at the start of WWII and spent the entire war as POW in Japan. I can't help thinking he would have been ecstatic to have something like this to eat then.
If I open a package and if the chicken, pork or beef pieces or whole smells a little off, I wash it with cold water. Dry it and then check it again. Usually washing it does the trick.
When I wet age a brisket for 75 or so days it will come out of the package with a smell. Rinsing it off usually gets rid is all the odor. I did smoke one once that still had just a hint of smell but it turned out fine. As for chicken, pork, or fish it has to smell great right out of the package or it gets hauled to the back of the pasture for my friends the opossum and raccoons to eat.
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