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not that i know from personal experience, but i'm a food network junky... they always cook the meat in the marinade! the restaurants just stick the huge pan the meat's been marinating in right in the oven. if you're eating that at restaurants, it's probably ok at home!

Unless I just have a TON of marinade I almost always cook it all together without draining (and like @MrsTiz:, use it as a baste). As long as it's all cooked and the chicken isn't raw, I've never seen it as a problem.

ETA: I'm way worse...sometimes if I have a ton of extra marinade I make a sauce on the stove with it (using flour + fat + boiling/simmering for about 10 minutes).

ETA2: You're fine, no need to stress!

I do it the same way you do it! Just let us know if you and DH are vomiting your guts out tonight so we can all learn a lesson from this:) hehe

you're fine. Everything cooked. If you had drained off the marinade, your chicken at that temp & for that amount of time would have been real dry - ask your husband if next time he would rather have dry chicken! ;p

Almost spit out my drink when I saw that title! Lol. If there was any salmonella in your marinade, it got nicely boiled and it served as extra protein (and I'm a microbiologist, FYI).

Liquids are going to heat faster than solids, which is why we are supposed to check the center of the chicken to see if it is done. The sauce/marinade will actually be hotter than the chicken itself.

I'm vegetarian - but I am always afraid I'm going to poison SO when I cook him meat. I don't know most of these "rules" and its hard to know when something is cooked - except using the thermometer.
He often gets overcooked meat - "Just in Case".

Luckily growing up in Peru, he has the immune system of a horse.

I keep freaking out about getting sick from improperly washed produce.

As long as you aren't basting the meat with the marinade throughout the baking process, you are fine. (Most recipes will say to set aside some of the marinade before putting the meat in it, and use that to baste.) I am sure we have all done worse! If you are okay now, I'm sure there was no harm done to the baby. I used to freak out when I was pregnant as well!

No worries, I'm sure anything that was alive in there was 100% dead by the end of cook time.

Also, this thread makes me crave French silk pie. Mmmmm, raw eggs!

@Minnie_Girl: Wait, French silk pie has raw eggs in it?! OK this is serious... even if I get it from Village Inn? Because I will totally cry if that's true.