AIBU to eat the dinner I left out accidentally overnight?

Not for me thanks.
https://www.chowhound.com/1786087/what-happens-eat-pasta-left-out-overnight/

from the link-
'The danger comes from a bacteria called Bacillus cereus, which can exist as spores on dry pasta. While not immediately dangerous, these spores can survive the cooking process and begin to multiply on cooked pasta, releasing harmful toxins as they do. Refrigerating pasta at 40 degrees Fahrenheit or below can cause the bacteria to become inactive, but they will begin multiplying again when the pasta is reheated.'

So its not entirely about meat or dairy for food poisoning!

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Its not worth the risk of being sick to me. What I taught myself to do to prevent forgetting food at night is to set the kitchen timer so I MUST come back to the kitchen, not my phones timer. But this pasta would be in the trash can if it was in my kitchen.

When I'm in doubt I recall that dodgy leftover salad I ate once and the major all day work meeting I sat through the next day wishing I was dead. That incident taught me the money lost isn't worth risking being sick for days.

Indeed. I’m really surprised that so many people think this is okay/believe cooking destroys the bacteria/think that only meat and rice cause food poisoning.

Yes I was 10 year old before we had a fridge. Food would be left a couple of days and we’d eat it with no ill effects

I was honestly in the middle of a post saying it wont be long before someone comes along to say their mum used to keep a turkey in a pantry for years as evidence that food safety is all rubbish cos they're still alive 😂

Thats a mixture of pantries generally being at the back of the house on an outside wall, often almost as cool as fridges, people not using heating as much, food being fresher in the first place, leftovers being eaten quicker, and a large amount of sheer luck.

Survived the long hot summer of 1976 without a fridge and lived to tell the tale. There was no microwaves then either. My granny never had a fridge just a pantry shelf that was tiled. Pantry did stink though I have to admit...

Nope 👎 🤢🤮, this thread is making me never want to eat at anyone’s house ever again

The bacteria that grows on food which has been left out overnight once cooked isn’t destroyed by cooking it.

Yes, but I can’t imagine many people are regularly putting five litres of hot soup into the fridge.

But, if one an occasion there was not enough time to decant it into smaller containers, it would be safer to put the soup into the fridge than to leave it at room temperature for longer than two hours.

yeah - I would. Just nuke it before you eat it again. It's all very low risk stuff.

Its not just meat or dairy or rice that carry food poisoning bugs. One of the biggest source of bugs in places like kebab shop is the salad!

Saying that, it's not been out 24 hours, it's not roasting at the moment, and there is nothing in that that degrades really quickly so may be ok

This is very easily resolved by putting hot food into a few smaller containers so it cools quicker before putting in the fridge.

It's not so much the food that'll be harmed, but it'll shorten the life of your fridge if you do it frequently.

Fridges as designed to keep cool stuff cool. Most fridges only have to cool down from room temp once or twice in their life time, when they're first turned on. Other than that they're just maintaining a temperature.

Putting something hot in there forces all the motors and pumps to work harder, extracting extra heat. The harder something works, the quicker it burns out

It’s all hypothetical really because there are not many foods which would remain hot for two hours, but modern fridges can keep up and it wouldn’t ruin the other food.

If you’re ever in a rush and food is still warm, it is much safer to refrigerate it (don’t seal it if it’s so hot it’s still steaming) than to leave it sitting out at room temperature.

Unless your kitchen is very warm overnight, I would eat it.

I probably wouldn't give it to a child under about 5, but yeah I'd eat it.

The fridge won't keep up with cooling off hot food which would mean raising internal temperature of the entire fridge. So, if you are worried about bacterial growth, your entire food supply is now at risk. Not to mention excessive condensation and possible long-term effect on appliance performance if you do it repeatedly.

I’ve never made five litres of soup so can’t help you with that.

Out of curiosity, what harm do you think it will do to put hot food in the fridge?

Wonderful. So you are all placing hot food in the fridge then? Because a 5l pot of soup is not going to be cold after two hours.

You say out of oven so already baked? Yes I probably would. Assembled but not baked, no I wouldn't. I made myself really ill doing that with a pasta bake once and I'm guessing they are similar. Would reheat it v thoroughly too.

Bacteria starts to build after two hours. After that, toxins can appear which are not destroyed by cooking.

I do this all the time, wouldnt think twice to eat it. Never had food poisoning

They’d be fine uncooked but definitely not cooked.

Same. I always despair at these threads. Food being out for less than 24h would not even cross my mind to be concerned about. I wonder sometimes how every mumsnetter handles food that's too hot to be put in the fridge if every minute on the counter causes mass hysteria.

I would consider all of those ingredients to be absolutely fine if left out of the fridge for a couple of days on their own so yes I would eat it