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Im astounded at the speed that this can kill.
If I’m reading the article correctly, it was <24 hrs? God damn.
Toxins generated by bacteria and some fungi are EXTREMELY poisonous. The unfortunate victim essentially ate a poisonous mushroom in the form of pasta.
I am shocked to see how many people leave food on the counter to eat later. Refrigerate it immediately! Not one hour, not twenty minutes! As soon as you’re done eating, to the fridge it goes!
Nothing ever happens to you until it happens, and we’re not talking about stomach pain, but almost instant death.
Can't be putting hot food in the fridge, it heats the fridge up.
The danger zone for food is between about 20 to 45 degrees Celsius. You can let hot food cool for an hour or so, but you've gotta get it into the fridge before it spends much time in that zone.
Obviously the amount of time this is a risk varies wildly by food, and some things are actually salty, acidic or fatty enough to limit a lot of bacterial growth for a surprising amount of time. But it's just more sensible to not roll the dice on food safely
For the Americans, the temperature danger zone is 45 to 135 degrees Fahrenheit.
Wait, so since tomatoes are acidic is that why it's not as big of a deal to let dishes with it cool completely before fridgerating? My ex told me that fridgerating too early makes the tomato go sour, so like chili I try to split into smaller containers to cool more quickly. Still makes me nervous leaving it out too long, but I haven't had issues yet
Not sure about the sourness thing, but a tomato pasta sauce without meat can probably get away with it a few hours longer, but I'd probably still just pop it into the fridge when it got cool enough anyway.
Chili with meat in, I'd be more careful of.
I don't think this applies to modern fridges. They are more than capable of maintaining their desired temperature when hot food is there.
I would still be careful, just because the whole fridge doesn't heat up, the food next to the hot item would still warm up, increasing risk.
You can't eat at everybody's house 🎶
I breezed over the 10 hours part somehow.