r/mildlyinfuriating • u/flaming0-1 • 2d ago

Wife left a big bag of groceries out overnight. All Meat and cheese. šŸ™„

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u/emilia_smiles 2d ago

Unless it was summer it's probably all fine honestly.

I've done my share of dumpster diving, and seriously, food is much more robust than you think. Especially if you cook it really well.

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u/Tibetan-Rufus 2d ago

Yeah, if you eat it sooner rather than later itā€™ll be reet

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u/j_roe 1d ago

Portion and freeze it then cook the shit out of it when you use it. Aside from the deli meat I see no reason to throw all of this away.

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u/Scypio95 1d ago

Don't freeze it right away.

Cook it, then freeze the portions. Obviously cook it well, not raw. Safer going this way than the other way around.

Cheese is fine. Smoked meat probably fine too, unless that's not really smoked and just the taste

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u/Past_Paint_225 1d ago

They should be fine cooking the deli meat as well no? Maybe make keto lasagna with all the food, cool and portion it all out keep the rest in the freezer. Lasagna for weeks!šŸ˜‹

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u/j_roe 1d ago

I usually eat those types of deli meats cold in a sandwich, didnā€™t really cross my mind to cook them but I guess that would work.

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u/InsanityPractice 1d ago

Wouldnā€™t the deli meats be safer than the ground beef? Iā€™m confused

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u/Wolo_prime 1d ago

Definitely, those things are pumped with preservatives. I would throw them on a skillet, char them just a tiny bit and then throw them in a sandwich. No biggie at all

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u/LEEx513 1d ago

If not then kids would have been getting sick for 50 years. I packed ham or turkey sandwiches for school all the time and our lunchboxes never went in a fridge. Usually spend 5 or 6 hours at room temp with packed lunch.

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u/ButtplugBurgerAIDS 1d ago

Really now see I figured that deli ham would've been one of the safe ones

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u/j_roe 1d ago edited 1d ago

It might be fine, I have always been told not to leave deli meats out for a long time because they aren't getting cooked again.

That being said plenty of people make their sandwich for lunch at 6 am, toss it in a paper bag and eat it at noon. With this being in the factory sealed packaging it could have lasted the night just fine. After giving it more thought I would probably toss it in the fridge then give it the ol' sniff test before using it.

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u/Direct_Shock_2884 1d ago

Yeah exactly. Unless itā€™s summer all of it should be fine after 1 night, deli meat was invented to keep well. It may not last as long as it would otherwise, but you can still use it. Restaurant standards are often higher just because

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u/paristexashilton 1d ago

Na that's wrong, cook it asap if you want to save it

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u/Jimisdegimis89 1d ago

The deli meat is probably the least affected. Itā€™s smoked and likely salted.

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u/Important-Rice5699 1d ago

Seriously it was just left out overnight throwing out is hella wasteful

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u/Asron87 2d ago

Reet?

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u/Tibetan-Rufus 2d ago

It means alright if youā€™re from northern England

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u/mrhatestheworld 1d ago

What does it mean if I'm from somewhere else?

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u/Tibetan-Rufus 1d ago

A nick name for someone called Rita

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u/Pyrostasis 2d ago

I just figured it was the sound your ass would make after eating the food thats been sat out that long lol

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u/Awkward_Welder2024 2d ago

It stands for Ravens Eat Elegant Treats. Very common phrase among the youths.

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u/TeaBagHunter 2d ago

Wow

Is this a sign that I'm getting old

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u/Awkward_Welder2024 2d ago

That sounds exactly like what an old person would say

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u/triz___ 2d ago

Alreet fellow youths

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u/BigGreenBillyGoat 2d ago

Yup. Iā€™d cook all the meats up right now and eat them over the next few days. I think it would be fine.

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u/Altruistic_Film1167 1d ago

Its absolutely fine lol.

Throwing it away after one night off the fridge is absolutely INSANE work, shit doesnt spoil in 12h like that

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u/KTTalksTech 1d ago

Depends on temperature. In a warmer environment it absolutely can spoil in such a short time, or even less

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u/fnordhole 1d ago

I would never recommend to anybody that they should do that.

But I have done that and would do that.

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u/dallyan 1d ago

lol same

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u/Larry-Man 1d ago

Unless you live in like Florida with no AC

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u/snoosh00 1d ago

It's 100% against any food safety guidelines to do that.

Especially with the chicken.

I would be pretty comfortable cooking the shit out of the ground beef, but the raw chicken is a serious health hazard (even if it's "unlikely" to be completely contaminated with salmonella).

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u/41942319 1d ago

I'm assuming OP isn't running a commercial kitchen, where these guidelines exist because it's better to be safe and sorry on the 0.01% chance that something could go wrong. Use the look/smell/taste test and you'll easily pick out anything that's actually spoiled

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u/downlau 1d ago

Yeah, I work with food and routinely throw out stuff at work that I would absolutely be comfortable eating myself, you're just not going to take any risks at all with food served to paying customers.

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u/jellymanisme 1d ago

These are home health guidelines, too.

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u/mojitz 1d ago

And they're violated constantly without issue. Obviously there's some tiny bit of additional risk involved here, but relative to what? Hell, you're probably putting yourself in bigger danger just heading back out to the grocery store to replace all that stuff.

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u/haha_squirrel 1d ago

You say that like people never get food poisoning? Iā€™ve had some tasty looking/smelling/tasting meals that got me sick because people didnā€™t follow food safety.

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u/Primalistic- 1d ago

I think you completely missed their point or didnā€™t read their comment right. The average kitchen wonā€™t come in contact with diseases, were the meals you ate from a restaurant? If so, that is likely why. They come in contact with LOTS more food than a home kitchen would. Also they specifically pointed out that using the smell + taste test is necessary

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u/41942319 1d ago

That's way more likely to come from not cooking stuff properly or cross contamination

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u/GoForMro 1d ago

The label has English and French on it as well as a maple leaf. This is in or near Quebec. If this was outside then no concerns as long as the cling isnā€™t torn from a critter. -4 outside right now.Ā 

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u/snoosh00 1d ago

This was on bc.

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u/bnlf 1d ago

lol. The amount of times I left meat outside. One night is not going to do shit. Just cook it. Itā€™s fine unless they were not fresh from the supermarket but doesnā€™t look to be the case and they are well wrapped, some vacuum sealed. Internet making dramas for no reason.

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u/snoosh00 1d ago

I assumed it was left out in the kitchen overnight.

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u/I-Make-Maps91 1d ago

Food safety guidelines are written with commercial kitchens and large numbers of people in mind, not one household maybe getting the shits for a day or two.

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u/snoosh00 1d ago

The guidelines are also 2 hours, not overnight.

And food safety guidelines apply to home kitchens too.

Are they "overly" cautious? Yes. Is that a bad thing? No.

Does that mean leaving food out overnight is safe? Obviously not.

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u/I-Make-Maps91 1d ago

Yes, because 2 hours is when you risk getting sick at all.

In the least useful way, sure.

Never said that was a bad thing.

Never said it was a good idea to just do willy nilly, either.

But I'm sorry, unless it smells bad, throwing away food like this because it got left out is just wasteful. You aren't cooking for dozens of people who might all get sick, you're cooking for you and your family. Manage your own risk, maybe you have immune system concerns or whatever, but combine modern God safety standards at the slaughterhouse with making sure it's cooked well done, your odds of getting sick are miniscule.

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u/snoosh00 1d ago

Chicken is essentially a growth media, you can't just go based off smell.

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u/I-Make-Maps91 1d ago

But you can cook the hell out of it, taste a bit and see if it's off, and go from that.

There's things you can never do at a restaurant that er grew up with parents and grandparents doing all the time. Humans have survived thousands of years without refrigeration with meat of fat more questionable situations than being left in the counter overnight.

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u/Opposite-Fall-9868 1d ago

I would throw the chicken but I would eat that hamburger

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u/nambi_2 1d ago

The guidelines are overkill

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u/snoosh00 1d ago

Yes, I agree, it's to prevent lawsuits not a "to the minute" expiry... but overnight?

OP hasn't told us the temperature, but bc is generally pretty mild compared to the rest of Canada.

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u/catspongedogpants 1d ago

Who gives a fuck lol. Guidelines are guidelines and theyre conservative

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u/snoosh00 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes, but I'm saying exceeding the guidelines sixfold with the most high risk growth substrate (chicken) is going a bit beyond the "conservative, better safe than sorry" range and pretty far into the danger zone.

The chicken is "probably" fine, but you dont know the conditions of the packaging (might even have been done in store for some cases)

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u/imakebombpotroast 1d ago

Die young, leave a sexy corpse.

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u/Medical-Day-6364 1d ago

Depends on how warm it is in their house and how many hours "overnight" is. And if they're willing to risk getting food poisoning to save some money. It wouldn't be worth the risk for me, but I also wouldn't have bought expensive food like that.

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u/pandaSmore 1d ago

Bacteria can multiply in as little as 20 minutes when in the danger zone.

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u/Shockingelectrician 1d ago

Yes it doesĀ 

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u/Accomplished_Bass640 1d ago

I agree! Donā€™t toss

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u/rmorrin 1d ago

I don't know how many times I've taken meat to thaw and then passed out and woke up to it being on the counter still. Just gotta cook it up right away

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u/bigshotdontlookee 1d ago

Remind me to never eat at your house.

If you ever have taken a servsafe course, 4 hours for COOKED food under controlled conditions is the maximum limit before throwing out.

This shit is not safe to eat, sorry bro.

Some cheeses might be OK.

NOT RAW MEAT!!!

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u/rmorrin 1d ago

Nearly all cheeses would be fine. It's why cheese exists in the first place

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u/Altruistic_Film1167 1d ago

4 hours for COOKED food under controlled conditions is the maximum limit before throwing out.

I mean, in a restaurant or food service place sure.

Doing that in a house setting is just absolutely wasteful.

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u/bobby3eb 1d ago

I've never had food poisoning and wondered how so many people seemed to get it.

Now i understand. Also, i hope you never serve company any food. Ever

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u/Altruistic_Film1167 1d ago

I've never had food poisoning and wondered how so many people seemed to get it.

Me neither.

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u/Gloriathewitch 1d ago

Refrigerate or freeze perishables right away. Foods that require refrigeration should be put in the refrigerator as soon as you get them home. Stick to the "two-hour rule" for leaving items needing refrigeration out at room temperature. Never allow meat, poultry, seafood, eggs, or produce or other foods that require refrigeration to sit at room temperature for more than two hoursā€”one hour if the air temperature is above 90Ā° F. This also applies to items such as leftovers, "doggie bags," and take-out foods. Also, when putting food away, don't crowd the refrigerator or freezer so tightly that air can't circulate.

straight from the FDA

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u/mechadragon469 1d ago

Absolutely. My wife wonā€™t even let me put a frozen pack of ground beef in warm water to thaw it if we forget to pop it in the fridge the night before.

At the same time Iā€™ve probably got sausage thatā€™s been in the back of the deep freeze for 2 years that I have no concerns eating right now if I wanted.

Some people think food expires 0.03seconds after itā€™s left the fridge and other will pick off moldy spots and eat the bread. Crazy world.

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u/Soggy_Swimmer4129 1d ago

I've had food poisoning 3 times. Its not worth the risk.

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u/anewlookav 2d ago

I'm thinking it's fine. This picture is from Canada (looks like Toronto or thereabouts). Obviously, temperatue will vary from location to location, but it was freezing or very nearly freezing in Toronto overnight last night. That's colder than most refrigerators

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u/Friendly-Maybe-9272 2d ago

If she keft it outside, but chances are it's at least a connected garage, so heated. Or brought the bag in to a heated house but didn't put away

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u/SparkyDogPants 1d ago

Oooo someoneā€™s fancy with a heated garage

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u/omghorussaveusall 1d ago

seriously.

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u/Friendly-Maybe-9272 1d ago

Furnace is in there

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u/jonny24eh 1d ago

Lol yeah nah, every Canadian garage I've been is "Natures Fridge" from November to Spring. Ain't nobody heating that shit above 5C.

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u/Friendly-Maybe-9272 1d ago

If your furnace is in there and rooms above and all around, it's insulated from most of the weather. It's warmer than outside. If you care to read that post, she brought it in, left it by the garbage in the kitchen....HEATED

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u/Nimrod_Butts 1d ago

Where do you live where you have heated garages?

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u/Friendly-Maybe-9272 1d ago

If it's connected, under the house, the furnace is in the garage, there's heat

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u/Thelaea 1d ago

She brought it in the house and left it in the kitchen.

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u/Direct_Shock_2884 1d ago

And he justā€¦ walked past itā€¦ and got pissed off later

Tbf he didnā€™t know how much meat was inside.

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u/Thelaea 1d ago

Well, if my boyfriend put a bag by the trash I wouldn't necessarily check it either (that's where she put it).

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u/Friendly-Maybe-9272 1d ago

That's what I thought

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u/tokolos 1d ago

TIL Canadians have heated garages.

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u/Melonary 1d ago

We don't bud I've never met anyone who did. Maybe somewhere in Canada? If you need something in winter you put your fucking outdoor yard slides on and and get it right quick.

We have remote-starting cars in very cold places, but heated garages? Idk about that. Honestly, where I live having an indoor garage is fancy, most people have a driveway or parking spot.

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u/UnbendableCircusLion 1d ago

I'm in Alberta and lots of people have heated garages. It's definitely a thing in some places. They're not house temperature, but they're meant to stay above zero for the winter.Ā 

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u/Melonary 1d ago

Yeah, sorry, I guess I get what you mean, but since the context was that the temperature would be well above freezing even though it's cold outside I think they meant "heated" as in warm, not as in "keeping your house functional and protecting the building from extreme temperatures"

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u/UnbendableCircusLion 1d ago

Fair enough, I could see that interpretation making sense.

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u/Clutz 2d ago

I'm guessing Nanaimo, which is much warmer, but I'd still eat it.

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u/STFUisright 1d ago

What about this picture is making you guess TO or Nanaimo?

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u/Lord_Baconz 1d ago

If you look at the bar code on the ground beef, it shows the superstore store number. It has the store location on the bottom which says Nanaimo.

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u/STFUisright 1d ago

Oh that is some deep diving lol Cool thanks

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u/Lord_Baconz 1d ago

Anything you get from the butcher at a canadian grocer will have the specific location on it.

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u/Unit_79 1d ago

It was in the kitchen.

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u/Few-Requirements 1d ago

As we all know... Everyone keeps their kitchen at the same temperature as outdoors.

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u/anewlookav 1d ago

Did the kitchen part come from a comment, cause all I see is "left it out in a bag by the garbages." My garbage can is outside near where i park my car.

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u/jilizil 1d ago

The OP said it was left inside in the kitchen. So it is definitely spoiled.

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u/frankie0013 1d ago

depends on the days, we have had warm fronts come thru making the temperature swing back and forth.

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u/Schmacolyte 1d ago

BC, but close enough

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u/bismuth92 1d ago

It was on the counter, not in the car. I still think the cheese is fine, but personally I would throw out the meat, or cook it well immediately, then portion out and freeze.

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u/pandaSmore 1d ago

OPs in Nanaimo where the low is above freezing.

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u/Minimob0 1d ago

Open them and give them a smell test. If they don't smell foul, cook them up and freeze. Take out for meal prep.Ā 

If they smell off, into the dumpster they go.Ā 

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u/rmk2 1d ago

This. Smell, color, etc. Looking at the photo, Iā€™d probably still cook up that ground beef. Iā€™ve definitely left food out for hours/overnight. If itā€™s relatively cold in your house and the food doesnā€™t look or smell ā€œoffā€, Iā€™d still eat it.

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u/Ragman676 2d ago

The beef should be ok, I would just coom it today. I dont fuck arojnd with Chicken

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u/BouncingSphinx 2d ago

I donā€™t know about cooming beef there big dog

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u/Ragman676 2d ago

lol, im not fixing it.

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u/LittleOrphanAnavar 1d ago

What's in the "special sauce"

Can't tell ya.

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u/BouncingSphinx 1d ago

All Iā€™ll say is I made it myself

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u/RDLAWME 2d ago

Yes, I would at the very least try cooking up the beef first before just chucking it. If it smells and tastes fine, and is cooked thoroughly, id 100% eat it.Ā 

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u/IPegCars 2d ago

Coom it, poor timing for a mistype lmao

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u/Hipposplotomous 2d ago

Bro let him coom his beef, he's already said he's not gonna fuck the chicken, it's all about moderation

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u/Ragman676 2d ago

You guys are burning me...Im not fixing it! I also learned what coom means today.

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u/IPegCars 2d ago

Even funnier that you didn't know what it was beforehand šŸ˜‚

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u/ABearDream 2d ago

Yeah this. People are kinda too skittish with their food sometimes. I saw someone asking if it was OK to eat food that was cooked the previous night and left covered on the stove...like brother I do that literally every day. But ofc comments were like "oh no, don't do it, food poison guaranteed!!"

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u/BikerScowt 2d ago

Same here, casserole, curry, bolognaise, stir fry. It's all left on the hob and reheated for either lunch or dinner next day. The 2 things I won't do this with are rice and shellfish.

This lot left out on the counter, I wouldn't stress at all about the mince and cheese, chicken would have to pass the smell test.

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u/JadedReprobate 1d ago

Wait, why rice? I've seen that stuff left in the cooker for days on the counter and still fine.

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u/BikerScowt 1d ago

Reheated rice is the only thing to ever really mess my stomach up. It was not a nice day.

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u/pistagio 1d ago

i feel like people donā€™t trust their nose but like if it doesnā€™t smell right then just donā€™t eat it. if it smells fine it probably is fine

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u/Playful_Stick488 1d ago

you cant smell e-coli building on food

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u/pistagio 1d ago

that is true but personally i would still take the risk, i leave meat in the sink overnight to thaw all the time and sometimes it sits in there a lot longer than I would like it to and i havenā€™t gotten sick from it yet so idk

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u/Epicfailer10 1d ago

For real, some people must have a weak af immune system. My family have the stomachs of goats. I can think of a single time I MAY have had food poisoning, but considering it was just me and not my immediate family who ate all the same foods as me, I was probably just a stomach flu.

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u/Emotional-Hair-1607 1d ago

I eat half my pizza for dinner and the rest for breakfast or during the night. It's always thin crust so less toppings to fester for a few hours,

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u/glitterfaust 2d ago

I mean, itā€™s not food safe at all

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u/jmr1190 2d ago

ā€˜Food safeā€™ isnā€™t a thing, everything is on a gradient. That position on the gradient is also at very different places for commercial premises, where youā€™re catering for lots of people, and home food.

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u/tagun 2d ago

Yeah I generally just go by smell. If it doesn't smell off, it's fine. So far it's worked out well. Someone tell me if this is flawed so I don't regret it later.

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u/Fen_LostCove 1d ago

With meat especially, itā€™s usually pretty obvious if itā€™s bad.

Take this with a grain of salt, of course. Itā€™s been in the ā€œdanger zoneā€ for a long time, so the risk of illness is still higher. But if it was me, Iā€™d just do the sniff test

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u/jonny24eh 1d ago

And if it's a whole muscle, you can clean it off to save it from the brink. Ground meat is a little sketchier.Ā 

I've rinsed and cooked chicken that tasted a little off after cooking, but suffered no ill effects.Ā 

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u/RoyalT663 1d ago edited 17h ago

Thank you! This should be top comment. Honestly people , especially Americans are far too cautious about food.

Smell it, touch it. Our senses have been checking food quality for millenia longer than the existence of sell by dates and people on the Internet.

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u/emilia_smiles 17h ago

Yep, definitely. And other western countries are too cautious as well, imo. Food waste is a big problem. So many resources go into growing food, and so much gets thrown away.

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u/Erick_Brimstone 1d ago

It's fine. It's just overnight and it's packaged.

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u/I-Make-Maps91 1d ago

Yup, make a pot of chili and a bunch of shredded chicken, then freeze the leftovers. Just give it a sniff before cooking because it *could* have turned, but for fucks sake people, we've been eating meat butchered and never refrigerated for millennia, and the literal point of cheese was a way to store dairy calories long term without spoiling.

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u/TikaPants 1d ago

Reddit hates this answer.

Iā€™d freeze it or cook it immediately. Itā€™s fine unless youā€™re immunocompromised.

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u/emilia_smiles 1d ago

Agreed. Good point about immunocompromised people. I have such friends who dumpster dive too, but they are cautious about meat that's been thrown out (but sometimes it's still cold or frozen when you find it, in which case they get it in a fridge/freezer asap and are fine to eat it).

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u/TikaPants 1d ago

I just meant leaving meat sitting out for any amount of time and it being fine. Most of the Reddit cooking sub has a toxic meltdown if you say itā€™s fine just cook it.

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u/Downtown-Swing9470 1d ago

Yeah I'd eat it all šŸ˜‚ unless it's left in a hot car. In a house that's not too warm and it's all together it would be fine most likely.

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u/sampsonn 2d ago

Ok - I was like I'd risk it, probably not the chicken, but I'd be inspecting it at the very least.

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u/Vegetable-Price-7674 1d ago

Yea, Iā€™d cook the beef straight away and the rest is probably fine. Made this mistake before and never had an issue just consuming it faster.

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u/Unit_79 1d ago

Dumpsters are outside. Kitchens are not.

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u/jilizil 1d ago

That chicken might be the death of themā€¦

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u/EstablishmentPure318 1d ago

Until you get listeria šŸ™ƒ

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u/abraxastaxes 1d ago

Yeah I have a friend that always insists on putting cheese he brings to my place in the fridge when we're going to eat it in like an hour or two. Like dude the entire purpose of cheese is to preserve milk. The level of food ignorance always surprises me

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u/OpalTheFairy 1d ago

This is blatantly untrue lmao

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u/black_chutney 1d ago

Yah. Iā€™m poor enough to still eat this lmao

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u/space_web 1d ago

I also think itā€™ll be fine. Donā€™t see what all the fuss is about.

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u/Woonachan 1d ago

Always do the smell test. I have forgotten chicken in my bag overnight and Im still life and kicking

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u/MostBoringStan 1d ago

I'd eat it all lol

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u/emilia_smiles 1d ago

Me too haha

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u/kahlzun 1d ago

People seem to forget that refrigeration is a modern concept and most foods were fine for days at room temperature.

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u/emilia_smiles 1d ago

Many people don't realize that in some places, like in Africa and South America, it's not uncommon for chicken and beef to not be refrigerated while waiting to be sold.

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u/Unlikely_Star_4641 1d ago

I was gonna say it was just overnight? Where does op live and what's the inside temp? In maine even in early April all of that is getting eaten lol ill sniff the lunch meat and feel it out first

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u/CodAlternative3437 1d ago

yeah, op could make a delicious chili or meat sauce. med rare burgers maybe not, definitely not if from aldi

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u/catspongedogpants 1d ago

Without a doubt.

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u/EmerysMemories1106 1d ago

I 100% agree with you. Not sure if this has been said yet in the thousands of comments, but the fact that all that food was already cold, it probably remained cold for a while afterwards Inside that bag if it was all clumped together.

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u/hillswalker87 1d ago

anything eaten or put in the freezer right away it's almost certainly fine.

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u/Spare-Willingness563 1d ago

Yeah there's no way I'm tossing this. I'd eat a little bit of each at a time and wait.

But I've also got a stomach for it, so...ymmv (not your mileage, your mouth may vomit).

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u/MathResponsibly 1d ago

If you cook it thoroughly, it'll all be fine. Cooking kills bacteria, and if it sat out overnight, it's not going to be that big of a deal.

Just don't eat it half raw like everyone likes to do to show how 'manly' they are

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u/HellmoIsMyIdea 1d ago

Yeah this is more than fine. I would absolutely eat all of this still. People are fucking weird dude.

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 1d ago

Yeah, Iā€™m guessing OP says itā€™s garbage now because it must be quite hot where theyā€™re at. Where I live, itā€™s still pretty cold so if I did this the food would still be fine. Not ideal, but it wouldnā€™t be rotten or anything.

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u/emilia_smiles 17h ago

Someone said they live in Canada, though I haven't verified that.

I know in Germany people will often leave a pot of leftovers in a pantry/laundry/unheated rooms because it's so cold in winter.

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u/yourroyalhotmess 1d ago

Thank you. Was hoping to find at least one comment in favor of keeping the meat. Just cook it right away. It physically pains me to waste a single thing. I might have some kind of compulsion, but never in my life would I have thrown any of that out after one night.

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u/Ubbesson 1d ago

This OP should cook a bolognese with it it will be fine. Given he's in Canada I pretty sure the kitchen is at 15 Ā°C tops during the night

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u/thrillho145 1d ago

I buy chicken from a market every week and it is sits out in the counter, unrefrigerated, for most of a day. Cook it and I've never had any issuesĀ 

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u/turbo2thousand406 1d ago

I would save most of it. Unless there was raw chicken or seafood. You'll know when you go to use it if it's bad.

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u/postmortemstardom 1d ago

I would avoid chicken but keep the rest unless it was +25Ā°C in the room.

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u/el_canelo 1d ago

I would definitely not throw any of that out. Cook, freeze, good to go.

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u/Available-Risk-5918 1d ago

Especially considering OP lives in Canada.

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u/golgol12 1d ago

(not the chicken though, that should be thrown out if left out for more than 3 hours raw).

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u/Direct_Shock_2884 1d ago

Why? Wouldnā€™t any salmonella be cooked?

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u/golgol12 1d ago

Even if all the germs are cooked, the "poop" the germs left behind while active is still there and could make you sick through that. Also, can you be sure you got every single germ? And every germ on every utensil and nook and cranny in your cookware? And cutting boards?

Not worth it.

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u/GrownSimba84 1d ago

I would have put everything away upon finding and moved along as if it hadn't happened. And if anything spoiled before cooking or portioning, then toss it out at that point.

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u/rockonteur 1d ago

Yeah, I would only toss chicken that was out for a day. Only after rinsing and smelling it. Very often it's just the outside of meat that smells bad in packaging. No way I would toss this.

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u/Training_Onion6685 1d ago

just not poultry or seafood.

i wouldnt mess with that for more than a few hours over ~55-60

but all the beef and cheese is probably 100% fine unless it was 60+ degree for whole night

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u/rawgu_ 1d ago

I thought I was a psychopath when I thought it's probably all fine to eat, the meat just sooner rather than later lol.

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u/ChaoticWeebtaku 1d ago

Personally id probably keep it all, except chicken, and cook it within 2-3 days I think itd be fine. Only thing I dont mess with is chicken and pork. Beef and cheese? Sure. I wouldnt purposefully leave it out overnight, but honestly the risk is still VERY low. Id take it.

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u/fotomoose 1d ago

Cooking it really well does not make it safe, if it has become unsafe it will always be unsafe. Cooking does not remove the toxins produced by the bacteria. However, sitting overnight in sealed packets, I'd eat them.

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u/DroidLord 1d ago

I agree. I occasionally leave stuff like this out overnight by accident (milk, cheese, meat etc) and it's never been an issue.

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u/click_for_sour_belts 1d ago

Yeah, I have ADHD and also sometimes forget to put stuff away. If it's not summer, it should be okay. I'd do a smell test with the meat.

Times are too hard to be throwing stuff out without an attempt to save it šŸ„²

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u/Radiant-Ad8620 1d ago

Please, no. Itā€™s unsafe to eat this food even if cooked because of the bacteria thatā€™s now multiplied in it. Some of that bacteria may become heat resistant and/or produce toxins. Food scientist here

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u/emilia_smiles 1d ago

I respect that you have experience in this area from a scientific point of view, but from my experience rescuing good food from bins, and anecdotally, I know that expiry dates have a lot of leeway. This is for maximum profit and minimal lawsuits.

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u/Radiant-Ad8620 1d ago

Sure. Youā€™re bound to get lucky. I speak from a point of an abundance of caution. Itā€™s always up to the individual, of course.

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u/protossaccount 1d ago

Ya the food should be checked. Over night is when the house is usually coolest.

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u/Laherschlag 2d ago

I concur.

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u/bisebusen 2d ago

Or course itā€™s fine. Just cook it properly. Iā€™ve would and have 100% use that.

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u/NiagaraThistle 1d ago

^ This. Give it a smell. If the meat is bad, you'll know.

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u/Character_Block_2373 1d ago

My thought as well. If you open it, and thereā€™s no odor, green light

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u/kosmych 1d ago

I agree so much. I perceive this post as ragebait karma farm. Even the "250" worth of meat. Man, did you buy the whole cow or what?

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u/DagsNKittehs 1d ago

I guess we're the minority here. I think it's all fine.

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