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"aem" > wrote in message
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> wrote:
>> I bought some salmon on Christmas Eve and didn't use it. I marinated it
>> last night and am thinking about cooking it for lunch, is it still good
>> to eat after 3 days being raw in my fridge?
>
> By now I'd guess you have cooked it up and decided whether to eat it.
> I'd have thought it would be edible, in the sense of not spoiled enough
> to hurt you. But I question marinating fish overnight in the first
> place. Fish flesh is porous enough that the benefits of a marinade are
> pretty much achieved in half an hour. Letting it go as long as you did
> would overpower the poor fish, I fear. -aem
>

I've always heard that fish and relatives both go bad after 3 days. No one
has told me if statement refers to cooked fish or raw fish.
Now I'm wondering.
Dee Dee