why should you only reheat food once?

Question

Why should you only reheat food once? espesically if its milk based, assuming the food is stored properly in a refrigerator.

Answer 1

When reheating food:
Not all harmful bacteria are killed by cooking. After cooking, these remaining bacteria can grow rapidly both when the food is cooling and when it is being re-heated. Further, the food may be re-contaminated after cooking. Therefore, food should reach at least 74º C (165º F) when you re-heat it. Again, make sure this temperature is reached by using a meat thermometer.

Do not reheat your leftovers more than once!

Microwave cooking is fast but heat distribution is uneven. Therefore, microwaved foods need to be heated at least 14º C (25º F) higher than that recommended for conventional heating. Further, microwaved foods need to be covered, stirred or rotated at least once midway through cooking to improve heat distribution. Food reheated in microwave ovens should reach 88º C (190º F) and be allowed to stand covered for two minutes after heating.

Answer 2

You should reheat your food once because if you tried to reheated again then the taste of the food will go bad and have not enough flavor. You would have to put somemore flavors in the food to make it taste great. But if you freeze it before after you cooked it. Then that is when you can still have your taste in the food that you prepared.

Answer 3

That is NOT true. You can continue to reheat food, until it goes bad. If there's mold growing, or it looks "off", or smells different at all, don't eat. Heat sufficiently to kill any bacteria, so bring to simmer and cook a while. Use common sense.

Answer 4

You can heat food as many times as you like until it spoils! Some things taste so much better re-heated.

If you put a product in the fridge with a milk base to soon and can go bad! Got to allow it cooling time.

Answer 5

You can reheat it as much as you like, reheating once is just a health guide but nobody stop you from doing it as many time as you want. But for healt reason it is not recommended

Answer 6

You should only reheat food once because you could overcook it and it wouldn't be good to eat anymore.

Answer 7

you lose nutrition every time you reheat food...if you are reheating pizza you are basically ok to do it as many times as you want because it's ******* pizza...not too much nutrition in that...but if it something like vegetable's the more you do it the less good stuff in it for you! might as well eat paper

Answer 8

Increased risk of bacterial infection. The more times that you heat it, the more likely you are to grow nasty bacteria. Then, Voila, instant food poisoning.

Answer 9

It' a bacterial issue, food is a feeding ground for it.

Answer 10

something to do with preventing food poisoning.