pasta sauce recipes

HannahIOW

Yeah mum taught me to cool food before refridgerating too. Just remembered, OH does the leave out/nuke thing with KFC as well lol.

Salz

The danger zone for food is between 8 and 63 degrees.
The fridge thing doesnt count these days as fridges are much more efficient - before you ran the risk of warming up the fridge and endangering everything in it but these days you would have to put an awful lot of very hot food in a fridge before it affected the temperature that much.
If you do wish to cool food down to freeze it, then the maximum time for cooling should be 90 minutes.
Hope this helps

Barneysmom

This is sad, God rest him.........

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1269745/Dodgy-takeaway-sausage-cost-man-52-life.html

kirsty822001

Hi, not sure where to ask this question,,I cooked a huge piece of brisket on friday in my slow cooker all day. I had to cook it or freeze it and i figured as we are having it for sunday lunch i would cook it and it would be fine in the fridge until sunday lunch. However I fell asleep and it was left out of the fridge friday night :-( Left in slow cooker. I put it in the fridge saturday morning at 7am but i am now worried I really think it may not be edible? I dont want to give my hubby and 2 of my kids any food poisoning bad stomach.
I have left chilli and spag bol in slow cooker out and we have eaten it the next day and its been fine.
What do u think ? also if i do decide to eat it how do i re-heat it??
Can i just put the slow cooker back on with it in for most of the day ??
or should i heat it in the microwave/or oven?
All advice much appreciated :-)

BitterAndTwisted

Don't worry, it will be fine. Just reheat it in the oven so you serve it piping hot.

kirsty822001

Ah thanks i really didnt want to waste it, will stick it in oven with some dumplings later tomorrow :-) cheers

zippychick

Hi Kirsty

I wouldn't reheat it in the SC either - it's for cooking

Do be careful though - my concern would be when it is in the slow cooker, it isn't cooling quickly as the crock pot holds the heat for an awful long time. So it isn't cooling as "safely" as it would when cooled in tupperware if that makes sense.

Just go with your instincts - taste and smell. Maybe you could cook yourself up a sample to try first?

Sorry, don't mean to scare you - only I'm wary of poisoning myself too.

I'll merge this later with the food safety thread. Do let us know how it turns out

Thanks
Zip

zippychick

Hi Socman

Now you've binned the ribs, I've merged this with the food safety thread. I wouldn't have eaten them either

thanks
Zip

Ladyhawk

It'll be fine - just make sure that it's piping hot when you serve it.

kirsty822001

its in the oven been in there for a couple of hours and its really hot,,stuck some dumplings around it and just waiting for the veg and pots to be ready. It smells and tastes lovely, I am so hungry :-) thanks all.