OK To Freeze Leftover Curry Takeaway???

faerie~spangles

I'd say yes, as I've frozen takeaways, having said that I phoned the supplier and asked if it was safe to do so.

eleanor73

I do it all the time. I think there is some level of risk due to things sometimes being re-heated but I always take home the extra sauce in an indian and then use it at a later date and have never had any problems.

McKneff

Dont re-use rice, cant remember why but there is some toxins appear in it on reuse.

The curried bit will be fine as long as it it heated thoroughly

lilac_lady

I freeze the curry but not the rice. If I have it within 2 days, I heat up the curry and put the cold rice on the bottom of the plate then put the REALLY hot curry on top. The curry warms the rice. Delicious!

vax2002

The Danger from frozen food is in two parts:
Time to Frozen, Professional kitchens and food makers freeze from hot, hot food freezes 3 to 4 times as quickly as cold food.
So the time to freezer is critical.
Then re-heat, the food needs to be raised to a temperature to kill any bacteria.
However if bacteria is allowed to breed in the food it secretes a toxin that can not be killed by re-heating, this generally gives you the 24 hr bad stomach .
Bacterial food poising from live bacteria makes you ill for weeks
Bacteria will form around 6 hours on most meat products at room temperature and by 14-18 hours at room temperature the meat protein is infected.
So you have around six 6 to 8 hours to get it frozen to stay on the safe side.

PipneyJane

As long as it was chilled down fast and stored in the fridge, you can safely freeze a curry. It may even improve it.

You can freeze rice dishes but only if you do so quickly. The danger lies in the fact that many people forget to refrigerate cooked rice and leave it sitting out in a warm kitchen overnight.

krlyr

Thanks all. It was only cooked at about 2pm this afternoon and been kept in the fridge since just after 4pm. All in the freezer now, bar the rice - the lucky dogs got the leftovers of that.

Pink.

Hi krylr,

Now that you've decided to freeze it I've added your thread to the existing one on freezing takeaway curry to keep the replies together.

Pink

~Chameleon~

It all depends who is eating it. I have a "cast iron" stomach and regularly leave cooked food sat on the stove top for 24hrs+ with no problem before reheating it to eat. Same with take-aways, they're often left out over night (rice included) before any leftovers are refrigerated/frozen and eaten at a later date. I was brought up this way and I've never *touch wood* had food poisoning.