Would you eat this?

mrbadexample

If you don't want it, can I have it please?

peb

I'd eat it - but then I don't worry about BBD etc. But if you are feeling at all doubtful don't as you will not enjoy it.

Post it to Mr BE!

Obukit

As others have said, it will be perfectly safe to eat, provided you heat it thoroughly until it it piping hot throughout.

Food poisioning is usually caused by food not being reheated properly (and it more common with microwaves, as you can get cold spots in food with these), rather than poor food storage per se, storing food properly is more about preventing it spoiling before you get around to eating it .

Merlot

I'd eat it too and I'm really really fussy about hygiene/cooking/freezing etc. I would reheat it until it was sticking to the pan, then you know its cooked all the way through.

If you don't want it, I'm sure Southernscouser and Mr B will.:D

Bogof_Babe

If it had been kept in my kitchen, that has been as cool as a fridge anyway these last few days! Also it depends if she has been heating up the oven regularly, meaning the cookpot would be getting slightly warm each time, in which case very dodgy.

Heat up a tablespoonful and taste it. Even with curry spices you should be able to detect whether the meat has gone rancid.

Money_saving_Diva_2

When I was young, my mother regularly made curries with whatever she had around. Day one it was cooked, then the pan lid went on and it sat there over night. Day two we would eat it and then the lid went back on OR she added more bits and peices to it to eek it out further and again it woulds sit on the stove over night. The pan was huge and so it wouldn't have fitted into the fridge anyway, but my mother always maintained that the spices kept it from going off and that because she reheated it extremely well, no bugs could grow.

She cooked her curries all my young life this way and none of us were ever ill, so that seems to prove Weezls research from a practical example. I think I was 10 when mum started cooking her curries so that would have been back in 1974 before people were quite so au fait with food hygiene! We ate curry at least once a fortnight, with whatever cuts of meat mum could afford, though most of the curry was in fact vegetables and potatoes as she couldn't afford much meat.

Diva.x

floyd

Money_saving_Diva wrote: »

When I was young, my mother regularly made curries with whatever she had around. Day one it was cooked, then the pan lid went on and it sat there over night. Day two we would eat it and then the lid went back on OR she added more bits and peices to it to eek it out further and again it woulds sit on the stove over night. The pan was huge and so it wouldn't have fitted into the fridge anyway, but my mother always maintained that the spices kept it from going off and that because she reheated it extremely well, no bugs could grow.

She cooked her curries all my young life this way and none of us were ever ill, so that seems to prove Weezls research from a practical example. I think I was 10 when mum started cooking her curries so that would have been back in 1974 before people were quite so au fait with food hygiene! We ate curry at least once a fortnight, with whatever cuts of meat mum could afford, though most of the curry was in fact vegetables and potatoes as she couldn't afford much meat.

Diva.x

Come to think of it, my Mum did the same with curry and scouse when we were young. The scouse was more prized the older it got as the flavour improved and the spuds broke down more

EagerLearner

I would eat it, as long as it's been well heated - flavours intensify and merge after a few days making it even better. I always leave bolognaise, chilli, curry etc a day or two for that reason (although admittedly I would refrigerate.) Heat well and enjoy x

Daisymac_2

Oh no I wouldnt eat it, I have a bit of a thing about re-heating chicken, never have done it at home, (sure I have had re-heated chicken eating out though), as for it not being in the fridge, that would give me another reason not to eat it. BUT, OK I know I am weird ....but I have a real problem eating something that someone else had made and I have not seen them make it, I don't know why, I am just a bit funny about things like that, sometimes people bring in stuff to work that they have cooked like cakes etc and they say help yourself, I never do, my DH says I am strange cause I will happily eat out in a resturant and I am sure the cleanliness standards in most of them are a lot worse than most people's kitchens, but I cant help it, I think it stems from when I was a child and my Mum took me round to her friends house and they gave me a homemade biscuit, I found a hair in it and ever since thinking of that just makes me gag, seriously I am sitting here now making myself feel really sick writing about it !!.

Anyway, back to the chicken curry, no def wouldnt eat it if it was me, but then as I said I am a bit strange :rotfl:

pigpen

Money_saving_Diva wrote: »

When I was young, my mother regularly made curries with whatever she had around. Day one it was cooked, then the pan lid went on and it sat there over night. Day two we would eat it and then the lid went back on OR she added more bits and peices to it to eek it out further and again it woulds sit on the stove over night. The pan was huge and so it wouldn't have fitted into the fridge anyway, but my mother always maintained that the spices kept it from going off and that because she reheated it extremely well, no bugs could grow.

She cooked her curries all my young life this way and none of us were ever ill, so that seems to prove Weezls research from a practical example. I think I was 10 when mum started cooking her curries so that would have been back in 1974 before people were quite so au fait with food hygiene! We ate curry at least once a fortnight, with whatever cuts of meat mum could afford, though most of the curry was in fact vegetables and potatoes as she couldn't afford much meat.

Diva.x

I thought you were going to follow that up with.. she still has a pot on the stove from when I was 10 just with more bits added each day!! lol

We do the same with stews etc..