/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.20170927]

I accidentally left my Chinese food out in the containers overnight. About 9 hours. It was decently cold in the house but still. Threw it back in the fridge this morning.

Is there any chance I can still eat it? Everything was sealed back up in those plastic containers or not even opened in the first place. Like, if I microwave it for a long time?

[Anonymous No.20170929]

Chinese food is barely edible when its fresh I would pass.

[Anonymous No.20170930]

>>20170927
Upvoted.

[Anonymous No.20170943]

>>20170927
heat would kill the bacteria but not the toxins they produce. just toss it, anon. i know it sucks to waste food but its not worth it

[Anonymous No.20170949]

>>20170927
eh. just toss it. sure its already cooked but it was also sopping wet out on the counter for several hours. thats about the best thing bacteria can ask for.

[Anonymous No.20170951]

>>20170927
It's fine, so long as there is no visible mold or other odd issue. Slap it in the nuke box and go to town. Especially if you didn't disturb it from its initial seal.

[Anonymous No.20170956]

>>20170927
absolutely not. look up fried rice syndrome and note that people have died from this and sometimes after only accumulating bacteria for 3-4 hours on the counter.

[Anonymous No.20170988]

>>20170927
it'll be fine if you microwave it ignore all the hypochondriac retards above me.

[Anonymous No.20170990]

>>20170929
>fresh

[Anonymous No.20170996]

>>20170988
>it'll be fine if you microwave it
a microwave isn't a magic sanitizer anon

[Anonymous No.20171003]

>>20170996
the heat of the microwave radiation kills the hypothetical bacteria

[Anonymous No.20171018]

i live outside in the desert with no refrigeration and leave food out all the time for a day or two at a time. both cooked and uncooked meat. non meat food ill leave out even longer. i just try to keep flies out and give it the smell test. i get sick sometimes but i dont know if its from the food ir just general self abuse

i have jars of pickled stuff ill have open for days/weeksp

[Anonymous No.20171020]

>>20170927
I'd eat it without a second thought.
>>20170956
> Le 3-4 hours
Kek. Don't listen to him. People die from rice because it was sitting out for a week, not hours. East asian aunties will cook a big pot of rice and leave it on a stove for days, reheating when they want some. That's stretching it, but generally they don't see it as a big deal or get sick from it.

[Anonymous No.20171028]

>>20171018
People treating meat like it's toxic waste is silly. Cooked vegetables go bad waaaaay faster than cooked meat.

[Anonymous No.20171031]

>>20170949
>>20170943
absolute retards
>>20170927
it's fine anon, chinese food is absolutely LOADED with sodium which acts as a preservative. the only real consequence is that it will only be fine in the fridge for several days.

those 9 hours on the table were the equivalent of 48 hours in the fridge

[Anonymous No.20171039]

>>20170927
i've done this countless times and been fine anon. at worst you get a bit of runny shit. nothing a bit of pepto can't fix.

[Anonymous No.20171048]

>>20170927
it's fine. honesty I despair of the human race reading some of the absolute fucking shite in this thread, zoomers are so risk averse it amazes me that you faggots can even get out of bed

[Anonymous No.20171056]

>>20170927
Smell: sour or bad toss
Look: Mold or bad wilting of veggies toss
Feel: slimy or wrong textured toss
99% of the time you'll be fine.
Its like covid!

[Anonymous No.20171071]

>>20170927
being an alcoholic i do stuff like this all the time and i always save it. i don't think i've ever had a problem. i also like to cook soups and meat sauces late at night. it's always too hot to put away in the fridge by the time i pass out so i always leave it out til the morning and then refrigerate it. never had an issue.

[Anonymous No.20171297]

i leave my food overnight most of the time and just reheat it in the morning. especially chinese food cuz i order 2 or 3 things

[Anonymous No.20171333]

>>20170927
I've eaten things left out overnight many times. Just heat it up

[Anonymous No.20171344]

>>20171071
based functional alcoholic that larps as an actual alcoholic

[Anonymous No.20171398]

>>20171056
Don't bully flu-chan!

[Anonymous No.20171410]

>>20171344
a functional alcoholic is still an alcoholic anon.
we don't need "no true Scotsman" policies for alcoholics, because Scotsmen are the biggest and most functional alcoholics to ever exist.
somewhere out there is a hardware engineer who has to drink before he wires and solders the motherboard of some supercomputer so his hands don't shake.
he's functioning lol.
I'm gonna go take another shot

[Anonymous No.20171414]

>>20170927
bruh i leave food out on the counter for up to 24h no problem. stop listening to the FDA jew

[Anonymous No.20171418]

>>20171020
well I really don't OP has any built immunity and he's gonna DIE

also on what fucking planet is it ever acceptable to eat hot food that's been sitting out for 9 hours? chinese food isn't shelf stable even when it's fresh nevermind all that mystery meat, sugars and starches and veggies turning into a giant seething petri dish

[Anonymous No.20171419]

>>20170927
You'll get food poisoning once and you'll never ever even consider doing this again.

[Anonymous No.20171421]

>>20171419
>once
but it won't be from leaving salt-fried chicken on the counter for the amount of time it takes to get some good sleep

[Anonymous No.20171434]

>>20170927
All the people in here saying 2 hours are parroting USDA guidelines that are intended to limit liability in the food industry. They will throw food out after this long to prevent themselves from being sued for negligence or w/e.
You're not risking a multi-million dollar suit here, just 24 hours spewing liquid from both ends. The risk of this happening doubles about every hour at room temperature. Chinese food is salty and thoroughly cooked, so it starts with a low bacterial load. You're basically trusting how sanitary their kitchen was. Are you feeling lucky, punk?

[Anonymous No.20171470]

>>20171434
>starts with a low bacterial load
everything is so filthy, contaminated, and cross-contaminated in a chinese kitchen that I would treat it as potentially harbouring salmonella when it's fresh and hot, I would never risk it sitting out for 9 hours. the cockroach eggs that you didn't know were in there would be hatching by then.

[Anonymous No.20171471]

>>20171344
>>20171410
OP here, I kinda forgot because I was drinking myself, but I put the food aside to take out the trash and forgot. My old doctor used to drink at lunch and tell me during my appointments that it was a good thing he had a few drinks at lunch or his hands wouldn't be steady enough to use a needle.

[Anonymous No.20171477]

>>20171470
if eating a few cockroach nymphs (hot off the presses and straight from the tap) does you in then you don't deserve to live

[Anonymous No.20171480]

>>20171410
holy fuck kys

[Anonymous No.20171487]

>>20171480
why does truth make people so angry?

[Anonymous No.20171599]

>>20170927
Why are there always so many threads like this, why can't you people just put the food in the fridge

[Anonymous No.20171612]

>>20171344
it's kind of a curse. if alcohol was fucking up my life and not just my liver and arteries it would be easier to kick. instead i've been a good husband, pretty decent dad, and completed multiple graduate degrees while being some degree of inebriated most nights. i'm always impressed with the number of alcoholics hanging around /ck/. maybe we ought to get our own board.

[Anonymous No.20171615]

>>20171410
i actually dried out for a few weeks and cut back because i need my hands to not shake while i start IVs and i refuse to have to drink in the morning to fix my withdrawal symptoms

[Anonymous No.20171617]

>>20171615
I dried out for like 6 months and came back to it and it just resulted in me drinking even more for some reason

[Anonymous No.20171866]

OP here i threw it away

[Anonymous No.20171874]

OP here i changed my mind and ate it out of the trash

[Anonymous No.20171880]

>>20171018
Can you post a pic of your cooking area?

[Anonymous No.20172035]

>>20170927
Dont eat it. If you need money for food from some way to contact you and I'll send you money for takeout. You will get sick do NOT eat it

[Anonymous No.20172039]

>>20172035
Really? Uhh sure. My PayPal is: [e-mail]
Don’t ask about my PayPal name lol, I made it originally as a joke but kept it after verifying my bank details and now I’m too lazy to make another one

[Anonymous No.20172043]

>>20172039

[Anonymous No.20172050]

>>20172043
I had a website pretending to be Jewish, selling stained bed mattresses and maps of underground tunnels. It’s my only payment method that’s verified xD

[Anonymous No.20172068]

>>20172039
Are you anti-Jew?

[Anonymous No.20172070]

>>20172050
>>20172039
I was literally about to send you the money until I read this. I hope you get by but I can't help you now

[Anonymous No.20172083]

>>20172070
You should see the shadow of my nose rn in my dimly lit room.. I’m rubbing my hands together thinking to myself “You got away this time goyim..”

[Anonymous No.20172087]

>>20172083
Thanks for reinforcing the decision. Hope things get better for you