The aim of this work was to study the effect of different cooking methods viz, moist cooking (nuggets), dry cooking (patties) and deep-fat frying (croquettes) on lipid oxidation and microbial quality of few emulsion-based meat products from chicken under vacuum packaging conditions during refrigerated storage. When different cooking methods were studied, croquettes were the most affected (P < 0.05) by lipid oxidation as indicated by thiobarbituric acid reactive substances, peroxide value and free fatty acids compared with nuggets or patties. Croquettes had lower (P < 0.05) water activity than nuggets and patties. Total plate counts and psychrotrophic counts remained lower (P < 0.05) throughout the storage for croquettes compared with nuggets or patties. Based on lipid oxidation and microbial quality, it was concluded that moist-cooked nuggets, dry-cooked patties and deep-fat fried croquettes were stable for 40, 60 and 80 days at refrigerated storage under vacuum packaging.