Everyone will say 2 hours, but really you can take it,..cook the hell out of it and eat it well into the next day. (how many times have you had a slice of Pizza with 20 different meats on it that set out all night? I only did that about 20K times through college and it never made me sick. (ham/sausage/salami/peperoni) nothing.
Sliced packaged ham is packed full of preservatives, it winds up being at room temperature all the time in being moved from area to area in grocery stores.
Smell it,..taste it, if ANYTHING is off pitch it...otherwise cook the hell out of it and enjoy!
No more than 2 hours.
3 days
Three days for cooked roast potatoes or cooked chips.
1 week
Seven days.
About 4 - 5 days.
Raw chicken can stay fresh in a fridge up to 2 days. The chicken has to stay in the fridge and then immediately cooked.
Put it in an air tight container with a lid.
Only if cooked. Otherwise you will destroy the cell structure.
Meats do not last long in the refrigerator. Only about 3 to 4 days if it is raw. Then 1 to 2 days longer if cooked and placed in an airtight container. You should always cover meats when stored in the fridge.
Cooked steak will keep in the fridge for 3-5 days.
It should be refrigerated after about 2 hours and should not remain at room temperature for "many hours".
IN reality because its a protein food then you should keep it at between 1 and 5 degrees. IN an ambiant room its safe for about 1 to 2 hours at max before it starts to deteriorate. The environmental heat will drive the need to refrigerated. As most homes have heating running at this time of year its much safer to lean toward food safety and refrigerate