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    8 hours ago

    They go bad quickly. If you leave one in a hot car, it gets funky like in one afternoon. Which if you cooked your own chicken and left it in the car it wouldn’t, which is odd.

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        7 hours ago

        When travelling I’ve had cause to buy those pre cooked chickens, and to cook mine own meats, and had to leave them in cars for a bit, so quite a bit actually. Not often on the Rotisserie chickens after a couple got funky, but plenty on mine own meats.

        Hamburgers cooked over a wood fire died down to charcoal will stay good for up to days in a hot car.

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            4 hours ago

            Oh yes. Burger is a different beast than chicken to be sure, but wood smoke is curative, and cooked food lasts longer in general. I’ve had cooked burgers in a trunk/backpack for up to three days, hiking and the like, in the summer, that didn’t go bad. I bet if you cooked it, you could pack it in a jar with vinegar right away and it would stay good indefinitely.

            Or if you expose it to smoke long enough it cures it completely and doesn’t have to be refrigerated at all forever. Usually salt is involved, and often other plants that help preserve it if traditional curing. If new age curing they use toxic chemicals like sodium nitrates to cure it, like in ham or bacon nowadays. Those are to be avoided and are bad for you, just as preservatives like sodium benzoate put in condiments and the like, even in some pop, is bad.

            Personally I always sprinkle some yellow 5 on my food after I cook it because testicle shrinking properties or no, it’s worth it to not have to eat food that’s not yellow enough, yuck.