reheating food

[Onket]

I'm not very good at leaving any leftover food.

 

[pogofish]

The FSA for the overall numbers & Laboratory Epidemiological data for Infectious Diseases (England & Wales) from the DOH for the individual types of infection.

No idea about age/background. Think that would only be relavent where deaths are involved as even the worst forms are only likley to kill an old/young person.

 

[Detroit City]

Funnilly enough, in England - typically:

Campylobactor - from 40 to 50-thousand serious cases a year. Many more mild infections
E-coli 0157 - 600 to 1000 cases PA (other forms of e-coli, which accounts for many types of milder poisoning - many, many more)
Salmonella - Falling & down to @10 thousand cases a year from a peak of over 30K
Norovirus - Around 2000 typically but two major outbreaks in recent years

All-in, the many other types of food poisoning amount for something close to 1.5 million cases per year & that is only those that warrant some form of medical intervention.

but how many meals are people eating in the UK per year? 70 billion?

 

[laptop]

but how many meals are people eating in the UK per year? 70 billion?

Estimated maximum: 3 a day * 60 million = 180 million.

 

[Detroit City]

Estimated maximum: 3 a day * 60 million = 180 million.

i was talking yearly

 

[lynne8]

I'd reheat and eat, but I've never had a bad experience, bit of a cast iron stomach here. If it is refrigerated that is. I don't like to leave things out overnight and reheat, my sister and her family always do that, with leftover roast and sandwich fillings and don't put things in the fridge even tho it says to do that "after opening" and they are always sick.

 

[laptop]

i was talking yearly

Doh.

48 billion. -ish.

 

[Kripcat]

Doh.

48 billion. -ish.

So a 0.003% chance each year of coming down with something worthy of medical treatment? Feel special Pogo?

 

[Cid]

It's the reheating that's the problem, not how it was cooled the night before

Nope, reheating is harmless if done thoroughly (beneficial in fact as it will kill off bacterium). The key (with rice) is stopping germination of spores that may infect dry rice... For this to happen the rice has to be left warm for a period of time, that's why it's more common with takeaways (possibly also a higher incidence of bacteria from cheap rice, dunno though). Home cooked rice is fine to reheat, just make sure you cool it pretty quickly the night before.

 

[hektik]

i never reheat takeaway rice (generally cos there is never that much left) but reheat rice that i have cooked, and kept specifically for my lunch the next day - put into tupperware box, put lid on, and wait for it to cool, and then whap it in the fridge.

 

[Orang Utan]

I'm not very good at leaving any leftover food.

I can't abide leftovers usually - I eat until I pop and if there's a bit left, I chuck it

 

[pogofish]

So a 0.003% chance each year of coming down with something worthy of medical treatment? Feel special Pogo?

How many meals/snacks a day are counted to get that fig? Also, by regularly reheating food, you are probably stacking-up the odds against you by some considerable degree. Remember that most serious cases of food poisoning, home or elsewhere usually turn-up some evidence of sloppy practices behind them.

Equally, you don't need a serious infection to have a pretty bad time of it either. Some of the mild ones can be pretty nasty as well.

 

[Kripcat]

I've just eaten some reheated takeaway fried rice that was left on the kitchen table overnight. If my testicle swells up, I'll never do it again. Promise.

 

[Xanadu]

I've considered the risks, but I'm still going to eat reheated rice. Rice goes from my rice cooker, into a container, cooled then shove in the fridge. It'll either get eaten the next day or binned. Takeaway rice gets eaten the day of purchase or binned.

 

[pogofish]

If you are in full control of the cooking, cooling & reheating stages, you are probably in a much better position to reheat. Buying stuff cooked, you simply don't know what has happened or how long it was sitting around before it gets served to you.

 

[pogofish]

If my testicle swells up, I'll never do it again. Promise.

It could also hit other organs BTW. Liver & kidney failure is far from unknown as a result of bad food poisoning, as is brain damage occasionally.

Enjoy!

 

[Kripcat]

Eh, who wants to live forever?

 

[pogofish]

Maybe but there are better ways to go than internal organ failure - which can be a particularly horrible way out.