Naw, people in this thread are the same “just trust science!” ones, except when it comes to things they have a bias about. Look, I get it: you’ve been using unsafe food practices since living on your own and you’ve never gotten sick. That doesn’t mean you never will, or that anyone who eats your improperly-prepared food won’t!
It’s okay to learn and grow. My own mother, retired from the healthcare industry had to learn that a freezer is not a time capsule, you can’t eat decades-old food with no consequences…
EDIT: The minutes-old downvote with no sources or facts proves my point tenfold. You have nothing, just your anecdotal feeelings.
You can’t eat decades-old food with no consequences
Except when you can. There have been cases where they have found canned foods from decades ago and when they lab-tested and taste-tested them they were still safe to eat (albeit a bit bland). The biggest danger with intact cans that are not inflated it that you might get lead poisoning if the can is older than ~1990
That’s the whole point, you have to use your senses (common and biological). You can’t assume that something is unsafe to eat just because it’s beyond its best before date or has been stored at 5° instead of 4° for a few hours. At the same time you can’t blindly trust that every food is fine just because it has been stored correctly.
Use your senses! I know doing that is not very famous these days, but you should try it sometimes.
So instead of “If in doubt throw it out” I’d suggest “If in doubt, throw it out, but if its still tasty, throw it in the pasty”.
so you’re telling me that leftover pizza on the counter is no good the next morning?
it’s still just as tasty, maybe even improved by mingling and cohering of flavors.
take my room temperature pizza from my cold dead hands!
wait… I’m definitely not a food scientist but you are telling me pizza + toppings is fine but some (already) cooked leftover unrefrigerated chicken is not?
Naw, people in this thread are the same “just trust science!” ones, except when it comes to things they have a bias about. Look, I get it: you’ve been using unsafe food practices since living on your own and you’ve never gotten sick. That doesn’t mean you never will, or that anyone who eats your improperly-prepared food won’t!
It’s okay to learn and grow. My own mother, retired from the healthcare industry had to learn that a freezer is not a time capsule, you can’t eat decades-old food with no consequences…
EDIT: The minutes-old downvote with no sources or facts proves my point tenfold. You have nothing, just your anecdotal feeelings.
Except when you can. There have been cases where they have found canned foods from decades ago and when they lab-tested and taste-tested them they were still safe to eat (albeit a bit bland). The biggest danger with intact cans that are not inflated it that you might get lead poisoning if the can is older than ~1990
That’s the whole point, you have to use your senses (common and biological). You can’t assume that something is unsafe to eat just because it’s beyond its best before date or has been stored at 5° instead of 4° for a few hours. At the same time you can’t blindly trust that every food is fine just because it has been stored correctly.
Use your senses! I know doing that is not very famous these days, but you should try it sometimes.
So instead of “If in doubt throw it out” I’d suggest “If in doubt, throw it out, but if its still tasty, throw it in the pasty”.
so you’re telling me that leftover pizza on the counter is no good the next morning? it’s still just as tasty, maybe even improved by mingling and cohering of flavors. take my room temperature pizza from my cold dead hands!
Pizza, with cured meat such as pepperoni is probably fine. I wouldn’t risk it with chicken though…
wait… I’m definitely not a food scientist but you are telling me pizza + toppings is fine but some (already) cooked leftover unrefrigerated chicken is not?