I just baked some chicken leg quarters that were frozen, and unfortunately I see there's a layer of plastic in the bottom of the pan. Since they were glazed/frozen I didn't detect the plastic.

The plastic isn't melted, just "cooked" and softened -- but still, do I need to throw it out for safety's sake?

It's a big piece of plastic but also a lot of chicken, I hate to waste it!

***added:

Never mind, I regretfully threw it away. I saw that some small pieces of plastic adhered to the chicken skin, that can't be good.

I was trying to find a way to comfort you to thinking "it's okay, not everyone is as plastic-paranoid as you are" but then I saw the "Never mind" and went "YEAH!!! Good for her!!!" because actually it's that thin flexible plastic that degrades the most into food upon heating.

I'm plastic paranoid & personally I'd have thrown it out. I almost threw out a 6 pound stew because I found a 2-inch sliver that was stuck to one piece of meat that I hadn't seen until serving it for dinner.... I talked myself off the ledge and it was fine, but my instinct was "toxic poison!"

bummer
i get so irritated when i accidentally let meat spoil or veggies rot, when i could have frozen them! i hate food waste.

Yes, it was 3 chicken leg quarters, farm-raised! I hated to throw them out but it was a lot of plastic, must have been a whole layer on the bottom of the frozen chunk of chicken (which is why I didn't see it).

I've been known to ignore a small piece of plastic, like parismama once did, but this is too much.

I know it's better to thaw meat before cooking but I usually don't think of it ahead of time and cook from frozen. But may do it more from now on!

What drives me nuts is those whole chickens with plastic-wrapped packets of giblets and the neck. Those things are tough to remove even from a mostly thawed chicken!

That reminds me of the first turkey I cooked years ago in my early twenties.
First, I don't think I knew that you have to thaw out the turkey first (can't remember that part) but when it was cooked and on the table and we were cutting it that's when I remember my mother who was over eating with my father too, saying to me, didn't you remove the packet inside with the giblets and neck?
Uhhhh? I just made a joke of it like,
Oh look, it's a surprise packet>>>LOLOLOL
Live and learn.....