How can you quickly defrost frozen, fully cooked chicken sauages?

Microwave; there should be a defrost button. You can do this before you’re about to cook them. Just be sure not to do it for too long or it will start cooking them for you! Check them every couple minutes.

The fastest way to defrost anything is to set it in a bowl of cold water.

I would put them in a ziploc bag and then put the bag in hot tap water. It does a better job than the microwave.

@Grisson cold water, honey. Cold water. That hot water’s going to turn cold anyway.

sometimes a microwave will cook them a little if you do it too fast, use the defrost on the microwave and check them .

I sometimes put them in a bowl of cold water changing often and sometimes after an hour they’re pretty good, remember the danger temps so put them in the fridge untill your ready to eat.

@jbfletcherfan It’s a matter of physics. A function of the mass and temperature of the sausage plus the mass and temperature of the water, and the target temperature.
<edit>That is to say, warm or hot water if you have a lot of sausage to defrost. The water and sausage temperature meet in the middle somewhere.</edit>

but @Grisson ; did you forget the consumption factor reduces the time to edibility…

@phil196662 You mean nibbling on raw sausage? Is that a good idea?

oh… my bad… forgot, the sausage is cooked already. Nibbling’s fine

You want to use cold water, so the food stays in the temperature safety zone. Change the water every 20 minutes or so.

the ones in this thread are fully cooked , never nibble raw sausage… not even rare in my book!

Put one under each arm pit and tuck the rest in your pants…ready to cook in 15 mins…SNAP!

The fastest way. Forget cold water.

Put the sausage (in plastic) in a bowl of warm water… and keep warm water from the tap constantly running into it.

Wasteful of tap water and energy… but it’s fast, like 10 minutes fast, with no risk of partially cooking the item like always happens to me with the microwave.

Drag them behind a speeding train!Fastest way to cook them yet! ;)

@lucillelucillelucille ; at least you won’t have to worry about getting the crosshatches..

Yes.It ruins the look,that’s for sure ;)

@Cruiser I’ll say it again…are you going to demonstrate this feat?

@augustlan got it right. Follow this for safe defrosting.

If you are super pressed for time take them out of the freezer and throw them into a frying pan with a little bit of oil.

Just read the details. Four hours should be plenty of time for the traditional method of submerging them in a bowl of water.

Running hot tap water is the best option, since unlike the bowl, it stays hot.

What I do is put in a plastic bag in a pan of warm water. Every half hour or so, turn on the heat under the pan for a couple of minutes to warm the water back up.

From @tedibear39‘s USDA link:

”Foods should never be thawed or even stored on the counter, or defrosted in hot water. Food left above 40 °F (unrefrigerated) is not at a safe temperature.” (emphasis mine)

Seriously… do not use warm or hot water. Bacteria multiplies very quickly at unsafe temps.

Placing them in a zip-top bag and then either in a bowl of cold water or under cold running water really is best, but be sure to get as much air out of the bag as possible. Heat can travel into the sausages best by conduction (direct contact of molecules). Any air in the bag will effectively “insulate” the sausages from the water, which will lengthen the defrost time.