last night i ate out - at TGI Fridays - at about 8 clock ... i brought left over chicken home ... but i forgot to refrigerate it ... (i just left it out on my kitchen table) can i eat it today for lunch?
2007-07-18 04:22:25 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
what if i taste it - and it tastes fine?
my kitchen was niether hot nor cold
2007-07-18 04:25:59 · update #1
jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez everyone! thanks for scaring the crap out of me! im not going to eat it =/
Thanks everyone!
2007-07-18 04:34:05 · update #2
You prolly should not. I would.
Cooked meats have a maximum room temperature time of 4 hours assuming they were well cooked in the first place. Pre-cooked food (like hot dogs) are fully cooked and have preservatives, but chicken cooked over a BBQ has a much shorter out of the refrigerator life span. Salt preserved foods can be stored at room temperature for much longer periods of time but the are specially prepared.
TGIFridays is not known for proper cooking techniques. If the chicken was not well cooked in the first place it has a high potential for containing trace amounts of the salmonella virus that can grow and spread to dangerous levels in just a few hours.
If you are young and healthy at worst it might put you "on the thrown" for a while and make you feel "off" for the rest of the day but will not kill you.
2007-07-18 04:44:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it needs to be thrown out. Food left out for more than two hours at room temp is at risk of causing food poisoning.
edit: Just saw what you put about tasting it...don't! Food poisoning is not fun at all, and you can get sick from something even when it tastes all right...my husband got food poisoning from eating a pecan pie that had been left out for 8 hours (not at my house, he was scavenging food at work :-), and he was sick as a dog for five days, even had to go to the doctor...and all he could say was that it tasted good when he was eating it.
2007-07-18 11:28:39 · answer #2 · answered by Judi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course!.....you should be more scared of the crap thats in prossesed food. food goes bad when bactiria breaks down the food and leaves its biproducts in its place. Tha fact that the chicken was cooked and ll f the baciria was killed, along with the drying effect which leaves a poorer enviroment for bactiria to re-establish, makes it very minimal in that time. Look how people used to eat... do you think settlers ate everything in one sitting, or threw it away?...
2007-07-18 11:32:48 · answer #3 · answered by Joel 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Oh no, sweetie. That's a one-way ticket to food poisoning and spending plenty of time on the ceramic throne.
2007-07-18 11:28:43 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't most times food needs to be put in the fridge immediately after you're done eating. I'd not chance it you could get food poisoning.
2007-07-18 11:26:09 · answer #5 · answered by Kitikat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO! Foods go bad very quickly in the summer time when you forget to put it in the refridgerator at night, I suggest you don't eat it, next time, remember to put all foods in the refridgerator.
2007-07-18 11:25:37 · answer #6 · answered by Cecilia ♡ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure, you can eat it and then call in sick the next few days due to food poisoning.
2007-07-18 11:25:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
As long as there's no meat or cheese. And if there is, don't pick through the vegetables and bread, because those are also contaminated.
2007-07-18 19:52:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope.
The food poisioning you'll get isn't worth it.
Peanut butter for you, ma'am.
2007-07-18 11:25:36 · answer #9 · answered by Stuart 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't. Why take the chance of getting violently ill?
2007-07-18 11:26:09 · answer #10 · answered by astroeyes2000 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋