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Rice in fridge for a week

Gettingtherequickly
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I assume that it is ok to bung in microwave?
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  • amandada
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    I'd not to be honest! Rice is actually quite a high risk food...there's an organism which commonly grows in cooked rice called bacillus cereus, and after a week it'll be hoaching with it! So unless you want to throw up violently...... (I was an environmental health professional in a previous life)
  • McKneff
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    Really, your not supposed to warm rice up the next day never mind a week later:eek:
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  • Pink.
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    Gettingtherequickly wrote: »
    I assume that it is ok to bung in microwave?

    No! Bin it now. It's just not worth the risk.

    I'll add this to the food safety thread later.

    Pink
  • Gettingtherequickly
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    Better cook fresh then! I don't usually have any left over, but was cooking for extra bods the last day:o
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  • weemissy
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    Im very wary of reheating rice at any time
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  • HappyMJ
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    Have a really close look at the rice (under a microscope) it should be growing the bacteria strain by now. http://www.typesofbacteria.co.uk/bacillus-cereus-cereals-rice.html
    Saver0811 wrote: »
    And .... Fried Rice from your local takeaway uses yesterdays boiled rice, a Chinese friend told me....

    That is kept in a very cold fridge and exposed to very high temperatures when cooking the risk is lower.
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  • Pink.
    Pink. Posts: 17,650 Forumite
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    edited 23 November 2011 at 9:08PM
    weemissy wrote: »
    Im very wary of reheating rice at any time

    It's fine to reheat rice as long as it's been chilled quickly after cooking and kept refrigerated. Once it's needed, and if you want to reheat it, then make sure it's piping hot before serving. If you want to use it in a cold dish, then use it straight from the fridge. I do both all the time, as do others in these threads:

    Reheating rice

    Recipes for using left over rice, please

    Freezing rice?

    The problem is when it's left sitting at room temperature or lukewarm for a long period while cooling, as that is the time that the bacillus cereus is in an optimum to multiply and cause problems. _pale_

    Leaving it for a week (refrigerated or not) is, in my opinion, just asking for problems. If I save rice, I try to eat or freeze it within 24 hours.

    Pink
  • squeaky
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    There was also something somewhere about a bug that produced a toxin as part of its waste. While the bug was killed off by reheating thoroughly the toxin is left untouched.

    That's from memory because I can't find the link.

    So I'm in full agreement with everything that Pink has posted here.
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  • PixieDust
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    I concur...lob it :)
  • CH27
    CH27 Posts: 5,531 Forumite
    Bin it!
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