/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I meant to say, ground beef fajitas, no chicken.
also shredded cheese, mustard, tomatoes.

>>12857052
>>12857055
ground beef fajitas aren't a thing you idiot, fajitas are skirt steak

>>12857052
They're fine unrefrigerated for several days. Don't be so paranoid.

>>12857072
Thats too long, I dont believe you.

>>12857119
Pretty much everything is fine at room temp for a few days.

Is there no fridge.... otherwise get a good insulated lunchbox not the tin Thomas the tank engine one your mom gave you decades ago and have either a bag of ice or frozen cooking bricks and it'll be fine and cold all day why would you even ask this are you at a mental facility.

>>12857130
>cooking bricks

>>12857134
>he doesn't use cooking bricks

It's obviously a typo for cooling you mongoloid

>>12857163
>obviously
what the fuck are cooling bricks

>>12857052
I put in two frozen water bottles into my zipped insulated lunch cooler. I also put in 2 drinks, one caffeinated, one a seltzer water. Then I put in either a frozen leftovers container like rice and main entree, vented microwaveable glass pyrex kind of thing, or a sandwich. A sandwich or container inbetween two frozen ice blocks of 2 water bottles? It's ice cold even 8 hours later. I can drink one of the two water bottles on my commute home. It'll be about 50% thawed.
Food that is fresh, and freshly packed within 24hrs in the past (not leftovers that ever sat out in the danger zone), should be find in your makeshift fridge between 2 water bottles. If you have leftovers you sit in your fridge more than a day? Nah, should have thought ahead to freeze it not refrigerate it.
Ground beef or ground chicken isn't fajitas, it's a soft taco even if it has grilled onions and peppers and all the fajita toppings, it's tacos. What you might need to do is have the meat and toppings frozen, and then nuke and warm it before stuffing into the separately packed flour tortillas. If it's a "wrap" sandwich, use preserved foods like mesquite turkey from the deli, cream cheese, smoked provolone and whatever veggies.
These extra precautions should make you worry less. If you really worry, think about a real cooler with tight lid you don't open, or else an insulated vacuum sealed "soup" thermoses with a wide mouth that you can keep cold (and hot) food in longer.

>>12857182
I like it. Thanks, anon.

>>12857170
Use your mind for once you troglodytic cretin

>>12857052
strong erection

>>12857489
>Use your mind for once
no

Leaving cooked food out in room temperature heat shouldn't be done for any longer than two hours. if it gets hot (90f/30c) then one hour.
The problem is that when it's above that 40f/4c temperature it becomes warm enough for bacteria to grow rapidly, and you likely won't taste or smell anything wrong. It might not cause problems 500 times in a row, but that 501st time might cause major issues.
You should look into getting a cooler that can keep the food below 40f/4c until you're ready to eat.

For all my life I have been packing lunches, I had some 10 hour days at school and I still never had problems.