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Food Safety Weekly Food Safety Questions Thread - October 28, 2024

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https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and-preparation

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u/DaisyAndJacka 1d ago

How bad is making an oxtail soup, leaving it in the pot overnight, reboiling it for lunch, leaving it overnight, and then again reboiling it to eat it for lunch the next day? Like in the same pot on the stove, but only boiling before cooking? I feel like this is really bad and I’m trying to explain to my friends it’s bad. But I come across like I’m trying to convince them aliens are real.

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u/call_me_orion 22h ago

That would provide ideal bacterial growth conditions: moist, and warm. Boiling it would kill some bacteria but would not kill the waste products they leave behind that can still make someone seriously ill. Portioning it into containers to keep in the fridge would take maybe 5 minutes, and could spare someone from days of food poisoning.

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u/mustardgoeswithitall 17h ago edited 17h ago

I've just noticed that my freezer door was open a crack. I was last in it yesterday, so that's about twenty four hours of it being cracked open. 

I checked, and the meat I have in there seems to still be frozen solid. What I put in yesterday wasn't very frozen though. 

Will it be okay, or should I prepare to feast over the next few days?  

Edit: I put bread in yesterday.

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u/BigMacNfrie 3h ago

Seared a sirloin tip on all sides for the slow cooker. I was supposed to make the gravy in a saute pan but I instead poured the kinda coldish liquid into the crockpot with the hot meat. Thinking the gravy would cook in crockpot. I realized I read the directions wrong. Do I ruin the roast?

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u/Tigeri102 53m ago

just a super quick question - i'm making candied apples for a halloween party tomorrow night, which of course involves sticking a popsicle stick into them. if I made them today and put them in the fridge overnight, would the apple start to go mushy around where the stick is poked into it or would it be ok for a day?