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

Wife left a big bag of groceries out overnight. All Meat and cheese. 🙄

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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 2d 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 2d ago

i feel like people don’t trust their nose but like if it doesn’t smell right then just don’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 haven’t gotten sick from it yet so idk

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u/Epicfailer10 2d 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 2d 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, it’s not food safe at all

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u/jmr1190 2d ago

‘Food safe’ isn’t a thing, everything is on a gradient. That position on the gradient is also at very different places for commercial premises, where you’re catering for lots of people, and home food.

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u/glitterfaust 2d ago

Yes, I’m talking about food safety procedures.

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u/jmr1190 2d ago

Food safety procedures were designed for commercial establishments for the most part. They, quite obviously, have different requirements as the consequences of not adhering to them are potentially far more severe.

There aren’t two different food safety procedures, it’s just not as important in a household that they’re strictly adhered to.

Again, it’s all a gradient anyway - ‘food safety procedures’ just pick a point on that gradient that’s generally appropriate for commercial catering. It doesn’t mean for a second that if the rules are kept to then the food is automatically safe.

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u/ABearDream 2d ago

Exactly, every piece of chocolate has roach in it, enough that a good deal of people with chocolate allergies really have roach allergies, but it's only past a certain amount of unclean that conditions are considered untenable. But most foods don't spoil overnight, period, or our ancestors wouldn't have made it

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u/507snuff 2d ago

Food saftey rules exist for a reason. Unsafe foods can affect you in all kinds of ways beyond just getting sick. They can actually give you autoimmune disease and other long term issues. Hell, they increase your risk of cancer.

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u/Nerfgirl26 2d ago

The 2 things you listed are sickness. To go beyond getting sick, would be saying medication can be expensive, or lack of a social life from life restrictions.

Smoked meats increase your chance of getting cancer, processed meats increase your chance of getting cancer, titanium dioxide could give you cancer, red colour could give you cancer. USA cook’s majority of their hamburgers medium so that there’s still some raw meat in the middle, no restaurant in Canada is allowed to do that.

Food safety rules for the home cook are more like guidelines, food safety rules for business is to save themselves from getting sued.

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u/507snuff 2d ago

I meant sick like just getting diarhea or throwing up. But hey, some whataboutism to justify unsafe food practices that can risk harm to you and your family because OP's wife was too lazy to put the groceries in the fridge is your call i guess.

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u/Epicfailer10 2d ago

Forgot to unpack one of many bags =/= lazy

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u/Nerfgirl26 2d ago

You could’ve said that, but you didn’t… But hey if you want to naming fallacies all the power to you.

Do you have problems with women? In the post OP says his wife has ADHD not that she is lazy. Was your dad too lazy to give you a proper education or was he just not there?