Arrgh roast beef left out overnight!

Jamiesmum

Eat it! If you're nervous just slice it and reheat it.

elsien

In a minority of one - I wouldn't eat it. Leaving food in a cool room (speaking as someone who managed without a fridge for a year) is different to leaving it out in the temperatures we had last night.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

suki1964 wrote: »

Yep I'd eat it

Like Jackie I grew up without a fridge

So yesteryear. One wanders how your parents kept their wobbleades cool!

suki1964

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »

So yesteryear. One wanders how your parents kept their wobbleades cool!

Cool wobbleades?

It was half a warm bitter lad :beer:

sabretoothtigger

Seems simple, make some gravy pour on cut meat and reheat in microwave. Probably loses some of the taste but any decent amount of heat kills bugs afaik
A temp gauge would be most safe, just in general thats good as sometimes the core of meat can not cook properly. Cut up into slices this shouldnt be a problem in this case.

Wash in very hot water the knives and board used to cut the meat thats been left out also

sortofwinning

You posted on 20-7 so I'm sure you have made your mind up one way or the other already. But for anyone else with a similar query, I work in the admin side of a company that tests food and water samples for chemical and microbiological contaminants and my answer to your question would be no, no, no! It doesn't mean you are all going to die if you went ahead and ate it, but some things just aren't worth the risk.


Bacteria grow exponentially, see link below for what you can expect after an overnight incubation from just one bacteria.


https://online.science.psu.edu/biol011_sandbox_7239/node/7284

dandy-candy

sortofwinning wrote: »

You posted on 20-7 so I'm sure you have made your mind up one way or the other already.

Just to say we chucked it in the end as it had been such a hot night and we don't own a microwave to "nuke" it in!

Thanks for the replies tho

Skint_yet_Again

even so, if it didn't smell I would have chopped it up and boiled it in a curry sauce on the hob !

Haffiana

I am a microbiologist. I want to say one thing about this, because to be honest, it is impossible to say whether the meat would be safe to eat or not without testing. There can only be an assessment of risk...

However it is important to understand that heating a foodstuff thoroughly the next day will ONLY kill any bacteria. I say 'only' because there is a significant danger from poisoning by toxins already produced by those bacteria, and this will NOT be destroyed by cooking.

Bacterial toxins are the cause of for example, the notorious food poisoning by rice that isn't chilled quickly enough after cooking (not quickly enough means hanging about in a warm environment for several hours). It doesn't matter how much you reheat or 'nuke' that rice, it will still poison you.

I just wanted to add this because 'killing the bugs' isn't the whole story.

sabretoothtigger

https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/1770949/do-you-defrost-food-by-putting-it-in-the-fridge-or-leaving-it-out-if-so-youre-doing-it-all-wrong/