This made me really anxious about how long I tend to leave food out up until the moment I read that he left it out on the counter FOR FIVE DAYS
this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2024
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Same lol. 5 days is absolutely insane.
It was a bit of an anxiety ride for me as well, being a frequent rice and pasta consumer.
I’d think pasta and rice would be a little bland together.
Yup. This exactly. After 2, and I feel like I shouldn't even go that far lol, I toss out. Safe than sorry and all that.
5 days out of the fridge - even sealed - is straight insanity. Of course he got sick eventually, I'm just surprised it took so long 😱😱😱
I'm surprised it wasn't visibly mouldy at that point
Especially sealed, it would probably just have dried up otherwise and been crunchy but ok.
I just realised ... The bacteria is ... Seriously ... Called B. Cereus?
I am serious, and don't call me bacteria.
The specific name, cereus, meaning "waxy" in Latin, refers to the appearance of colonies grown on blood agar.
Cereus?
Terrible headline. The bacteria that killed him is associated with ‘Fried Rice Syndrome’ but FRS is named for leftovers stored in the fridge, not uneaten food left on the counter.
Honestly 5 days out on the counter was asking for trouble - that long is tempting fate even when stored properly in the fridge
5 days without putting it into the fridge? That's asking for trouble.
I feel comfortable about 2-4 hours without a fridge, but I've occasionally left rice out 12 hours a few times with no issues. Same with pasta.
4 hours max in the zone between 40 and 140F is the general guideline for risk. There are a lot of nuances to it like how pasteurization and sous vide cooking work but in general that’s a good rule of thumb
Also to note that's only if you're gonna continue to store it.
Food left out for more than four hours is safe to consume like pizza but if you're not gonna finish it, trash it at that point you cannot store it anymore.
Cooked stuff is borderline if it spends 5 days in the fridge. 5 days NOT in the fridge is insanity.
How hot is your fridge?
5 days without putting it in the fridge? Hell at 5 days I'd even freeze it.
I was doing something similar and even in the fridge at day 5 I could taste that it was borderline ok. At 5 days on the counter it must have tasted so fermented it was bubbling.
Pasta and kimchi all in one.
"That's flavor patina."
I wonder if it was like closed with a lid and wet or if it was kinda open an dry. Either way, after 5 days I would not eat either one. Fucking yuck!
5 days??? Yikes. I feel uncomfortable if I leave food out for an hour just to let it cool down. I'll admit I've done some stupid stuff with leaving food out in my younger years (pizza left in the box on the counter for 2-3 days; one time while deployed to Iraq I stupidly thought the floor of our trailer would remain cool enough to keep an open can of chip dip fresh -- Newsflash: It did not), but 5 days??
I've have food out frequently for like half a day / overnight but 5 days sounds absolutely insane to me. I don't even want to know how the noodles must've looked like, probably already smelled at that point too. Makes me queasy just thinking about eating that...
Right!? On the one hand I feel like this guy was a dumb-dumb, but on the other hand, maybe he was never taught proper food safety, or maybe this was his first time living alone and cooking for himself and he just didn't know any better. Sad way to die either way.