How long can you leave rice in the fridge.

[Callie]

'check product is throughly cooked before serving'

 

[pogofish]

I imagine anyone with a Salmonella infection would want to avoid farting if possible unless they were on the loo

There is a point between your expelling everything possible from your guts & it turning on your gut lining when you do nothing but fart, vilely!

 

[pogofish]

Do you ever get warnings printed on rice packets, like you do with poultry etc?

I don't think a politician has shot their mouth-off about rice poisoning yet?

 

[beeboo]

I don't think a politician has shot their mouth-off about rice poisoning yet?

you should start lobbying someone, write a letter about your melon-sized balls

 

[pogofish]

Grapefruit sized plz!

 

[Celt]

I have to say pogo (and I know moose has had problems too) that it's all very weird. I don't doubt for a moment what you're saying is true but apart from you 2 I've never heard of anything ever having a problem

not that I save rice mind

Food hygiene NVQ level 1 is very big on the evils of storing cooked rice,

 

[sojourner]

Thing is he's NOT BSing. He really was seriously ill and still has problems to this day.

Yeh, I know

I didn't say I didn't believe him

 

[sojourner]

Nine weeks, then over a year feeling utterly shit as my body dealt with the secondary toxins. Not funny in the least.

Oh now come on mate - was only taking the piss

 

[johnnymarrsbars]

i've eaten rice thats been left in the pan the day after..and been fine. always made sure its mega piping hot though..

my mum told me that i'd die though.

 

[Callie]

i've eaten rice thats been left in the pan the day after..and been fine. always made sure its mega piping hot though..

If you had paid attention to previous threads you would know that megapiping hot is totally irrelevant in this case as the toxin produced by the bacteria is not detroyed by heat

 

[panpete]

sorry for bump, but felt it necessary, to prevent a few future deaths

The info below is from the food standards agency.

"It's true that you could get food poisoning from eating reheated rice. But it's not actually the reheating that's the problem – it's the way the rice has been stored before reheating.

Uncooked rice can contain spores of Bacillus cereus, bacteria that can cause food poisoning. When the rice is cooked, the spores can survive. Then, if the rice is left standing at room temperature, the spores will germinate into bacteria. These bacteria will multiply and may produce toxins (poisons) that cause vomiting or diarrhoea. Reheating the rice won't get rid of these toxins.

So, the longer cooked rice is left at room temperature, the more likely it is that bacteria, or the toxins they produce, could stop the rice being safe to eat.

It's best to serve rice when it has just been cooked. If that isn't possible, cool the rice as quickly as possible (ideally within one hour) and keep it in the fridge for no more than one day until reheating.

Remember that when you reheat any food, you should always check that it's piping hot all the way through, and avoid reheating more than once."

 

[quimcunx]

It's definitley past its best now.

 

[free spirit]

I believe the main problem with rice was restaurants / takeaways making huge vats of rice at the start of the night, then leaving them sat on the side all night at perfect temperature for the spores to germinate and bacteria to multiply, and just dole the rice out into portions and give it a blast with the microwave to heat it up before sending it out... then sticking the remainder in the fridge at the end of the night, and frying it up for the next days fried rice.

entirely different to boiling up some rice, then fairly quickly sticking the leftover rice in the fridge afterwards... in this situation it can last for days no problem.