AIBU to eat the dinner I left out accidentally overnight?

They don’t cook food and leave it out in a warm room overnight though.

If food has given you diarrhoea then that is food poisoning. It’s very unlikely you’d get diarrhoea without sickness too.

Food poisoning is not rare, it’s very common. Millions of cases in the UK every year, and this thread is giving some insight as to why.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

We often eat left over Chinese thats been stored overnight in the microwave, never been ill yet!

Meanwhile half the world doesn’t even have a fridge.
It will be fine.
You might gets the runs occasionally but actual food poisoning is rare and serious food poisoning even rarer.

Everyone saying that they leave food out for hours and then eat it - you don’t have cast iron stomachs and it doesn’t mean it’s safe.

It’s dangerous and you have been lucky that the bacteria/toxins haven’t been present. Food poisoning is awful, even a mild bout. It isn’t worth the risk for the sake of moving the food to the fridge.

Modern fridges are fine with hot food, it will not spoil the rest of the food in the fridge.

I never do this though, I wait for food to cool. I was replying to a poster who needed to know what to do if she cooked five litres of hot soup which couldn’t be put into smaller dishes to cool.

Id definitely eat it! But I also ate a chicken breast for lunch today that I'd left out by accident last night after cooking it. I have an iron stomach 🤣

We routinely leave unfinished casseroles etc out on the work surface and finish them the next day. Even with meat. Never got ill.

Putting hot food in the fridge raises the temperature inside your fridge. So could potentially lead to other things in the fridge going off.

Gnocchi and pasta have the same bacteria as rice (bacillus cereus, produces heat resistant spores) so are just as risky.

I’d eat it no problem, but then I’m happy to eat most things that others on MN think will kill you. Shock horror I even eat cold leftover rice. Never had so much as a slightly upset stomach from it, never mind died.

I leave all food out for 24 hours- we eat a meal over two nights, don't put in fridge. My parents also did this. So 47 years later, I'm still alive. Meat, rice, dairy, the whole lot

I would.

I would, but I have a stomach of cast iron. My parents were war babies and disapproved of waste. Sell by dates were a modern affectation: oh, the culinary relics we found after my dad died 😬

Yes, RICE is a particular problem. Basically if you don't get it in the fridge pretty quickly you shouldn't re-heat it as re-heating even to high temperatures doesn't kill whatever it is that makes a specific type of bacteria grow on it enough to create toxins. I't called re-heated rice syndrome, seriously. Pasta I am fairly sure would be fine being left overnight.

The OP will be fine though as this dish doesn't contain rice and from experience, my mother used to cook, leave it to cool overnight and then put in the fridge the next morning. I wouldn't put hot stuff in the fridge just because that raises the temperature too much in the fridge.

Wouldn't be a problem for me. Have done similar hundreds of times and I'm still alive.

Heat will not kill toxins which develop on cooked food.

Heat resistant toxins and bacterial growth both on the gnocchi and vegetables. Once they are cooked bacteria will grow on them.

I think this is the reason soup always tastes better on the second day!

My mum would make lentil soup and leave it on top of the cooker for 2-3 days until it was finished. She would however take some out in a separate pot to reheat it, rather than reheating the main pot repeatedly.

We lived in an unheated house so it was always pretty cool, but she did this year round. It was also in the days when fridges were much smaller, so making room in it for a large batch of soup was not really feasible. Ditto Christmas turkey. It would sit on the counter overnight until Boxing Day when the leftover meat would be stripped off into a smaller container to go in the fridge.

I wouldn’t give it a second thought. Bung it in the microwave or oven, heat and enjoy.

I often stick my big batch of 'whatever' outside overnight. It might not be fridge temp but it's cooler than inside, then it goes in the fridge / freezer in the morning.

I always leave food to cool down. I was replying to someone who asked what would happen if I made five litres of soup which was still hot after two hours. It isn’t a problem I’ve ever encountered, but if I did and I couldn’t put it into shallower dishes, I’d refrigerate it.

Whats to go off in it? I do that all the time. It's good to leave it to cool fully before going in fridge.

It doesn't need to be hot soup though. About once a month I make a bloody massive chilli con carne. I'll have some of it that night, some of it the next day and then freeze whatevers left (if there is any, Chilli is my greatest vice). I used to put it in the fridge straight away after dishing up, but ended up knackering my fridge, so these days I leave it on the side for a few hours to let it cool down first.

It doesn't even need to be something that big, even putting small hot things in there will have a cumulative affect on the life of your fridge over time.

To be fair, whilst I’d eat it myself, I wouldn’t serve it to anyone else 😂