Urgent - okay to eat this?

[whethergirl]

I just found a container of a roast veg and rice dish I made last Tuesday and forgot all about. It smells ok. Would you eat it or has it been too long?!

[pfbornot]

I wouldn't.

[pfbornot]

Rice shouldn't be reheated.

[tkband3]

I wouldn't - reheated rice can be v dodgy.

[Pinner35]

No, don't eat it.

[whethergirl]

Really? Rice should NEVER be reheated? What do you do when you have leftover rice then, just chuck it?

Anyway, thanks for that. I guess I'll just have to MAKE some dinner instead of sunbathing in the garden.

[whethergirl]

And is is just rice that shouldn't be re-heated? What about bulgar wheat or cous cous?

[thisisyesterday]

rice can be reheated, as long as the food was cooled quickly and has stayed refrigerated and you reheat it thoroughly it doesn't pose an issue

that said, after a week? i'm not sure i would! but then i wouldn't with anything that had been sat there a week, it's not a rice thing per se!

[thisisyesterday]

if rice couldn't; be reheated you wouldn't be able to buy rice in ready meals, or in packets off the shelf
and restaurants wouldn't be able to serve reheated rice (which i can assure you they do regularly!)

it CAN have host a rather nasty food poisoning, which is hard to kill off, but as long as you have been careful with the food, as I said in the previous post, then it really isn't an issue

[whethergirl]

Yeh, I guess a week is too long for most things. I used to be so overly fussy about this kind of thing, and for some reason I've just gone the other way and now too relaxed about it.

[GeorgeEliot]

Rice can give you really nasty food poisoning. I would not keep cooked rice for longer than 1 day, then reheat until very hot - and only if it's been refrigerated.

[nannyl]

No way

Im normally very relaxed about these type of things.... but week old rice. No way!