Would you eat this?

noonesperfect

CoD wrote: »

I'd eat it. are you sure she hadn't been keeping the whole pan in the fridge and taken it out to reheat that day?

I think she made it on Sunday and was then just taking portions out and microwaving them as she wanted. I don't believe the whole pan was reheated at all. I just wasn't happy about eating a meal (made with chicken bought on Friday, as I was with her when she got it) that had been out of the fridge for two days!

bandraoi

I would've thought reheating the pan, to the point where the whole thing boiled, would be better than not reheating it at all. Rewarming is bad, reboiling is good.

If the pan was boiled, and the lid put on while it was still very hot, then I would expect it to be ok. Boiled = everything nasty killed, Lid = nothing new nasty can get in.

But that's just my own sense of logic at work.

skintchick

I'd eat it, but I'd smell the chicken and possibly pick that out of it if I was worried. I always trust my nose on these things (and often leave stuff in the pan for a couple of days).

VfM4meplse

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.

There is a well-known case study amongst Public Health circles: a number of seemingly random cases of food poisoning were reported across the country one Monday morning, this number increased dramatically during the course of the week.

When questioned re: dietary intake, the patients revealed that they had all eaten a lamb curry at the weekend. They had also visited the same (national) public event. It turned out that the chef of the aforesaid curry prepared it the day before the event and cooled it in the garage overnight...

My view is go ahead and poison yourself if you want to, inflicting it on others should be made a criminal offence.

phizzimum

It sounds like my mum in law's style of cooking - any leftovers are recycled into the next days meal, then leftovers from that meal into the next - and so on, indefinitely.

I'm sure there must be pieces of food that have been in the pan since 1962!

I must admit I'm wary of eating any of it (but maybe that's more to do with my relationship with MIL) but it doesn't make her ill. I think if you eat that way regularly you will develop an immunity - but if you give some to another person they might get ill.

Interesting about the effects of the spices - I'd often wondered about food in hot countries with limited refrigeration.