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To eat this pasta bake tonight?

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BlueBoatVillage · 11/10/2025 09:30

Argh, made a lovely pasta bake last night and did enough for tonight as well as today is going to be manic so won’t really have much time to cook.

We ate half of it and it was on the side, cooling down. I put cling film over it, with the intention of putting it in the fridge once cooled (as I usually do)

Came down this morning and realised I’d forgotten to put it in the fridge Sad I did so straight away when I realised.

Do you think it would be okay to eat tonight or should I bin it?

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Tiswa · 11/10/2025 09:33

What is in it? I would eat my veggie pasta bake in this weather as also don’t have heating in my kitchen so would never have gone above a temperature

if it had meat in it probably not chicken definitely not. Canned tuna possibly

VoodooQualities · 11/10/2025 09:33

It will be absolutely fine. Just heat it up tonight until it's piping hot throughout.

The only thing that will have happened overnight is a small amount of bacteria will have started to grow in it, and heating it up to nice and hot will kill all of these no problem.

Katemax82 · 11/10/2025 09:33

It's probably not worth the risk tbh, you could get sick, you could be fine but I wouldn't gamble on it

Lex345 · 11/10/2025 09:32

I think it depends what is in it. If its pasta/cheese/tomatoes and you will be reheating properly, it will likely be fine.

Seafood or chicken it would be going in the bin for me.

TheGoodOnesAreAllGone · 11/10/2025 09:31

I'd bin it