clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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I do because we were told by the EHO in Guildford that chicken should NEVER be reheated. The pies should be made completely and sold hot or cooked completely left to cool and then sold cold. Hence we stopped selling chicken pies and only did so as part of a special when we knew we would sell them all after wife had made them. Apparently it was all to do with bacteria forming in reheated chicken, and the pies do not get to a high enough temperature on the 2nd heating to kill that bacteria, well thats what they told us.
The meat in a chicken pie is always going to be reheated.
Firstly the chicken is roasted.
Secondly you aren't going to put a hot filling into a pie case.
It will melt the butter prior to going in the oven. When in the oven the heat causes the butter to release steam with creates the rise.