Would you eat pasta and tomato sauce left on the side for 2 1/4 hours?

[ABitCrapper]

Just that

Yes.

Yep

I’d eat it after being out all night tbh

Yes

Yes

Assuming I’d nuked it in the microwave and wasn’t serving it to anyone other than me and DH (both healthy adults) and I didn’t have animals or a fly problem etc then yes, I would.

Even more yes if there’s no meat there.

Yes, as long as no flies around. Why wouldn’t you?

Yes.

Yes

Yes.

Ah ok just me worrying then! I thought 2 hours was the limit and didn't realize it had been left out for longer and ate it and also the toddler stole some.

Yes, I’d eat it after 2 1/4 days or weeks. There’s nothing there that would harm you.

Eh? Why wouldn't you?

Didn't nuke it though just ate it room temperature

I don’t think anything would have happened to it in that extra 15 minutes to l cause a problem...

No meat? Then yes, absolutely. Might microwave it first but yes.

I’d eat it without reheating.

Yes definitely

Yes - I'd eat it the next day if the pasta hadn't gone hard.

Don’t like cold pasta, so would heat it for that reason!

Otherwise, no issue. Usually batch cook pasta for lunch at about 10pm on Sunday night, leave it on the counter overnight and fridge in the morning. One portion to work that day, the rest each day for the rest of the week. Hasn’t killed me yet :)

Probably. But I’d stop if it tasted fizzy at all.

I regularly cook food, leave it on the windowsill to cool, then take it to work for lunch the next day. So it's been out of the fridge for about 16 hours...

Never had food poisoning. But I am vegetarian...

Yes.

Yes I would, as long as it was covered. And I'm usually one who won't take any risks with food. It's unlikely that any significant bugs would have grown on basic pasta and tomato sauce in that time period.

That's the limit in fast food joints where they keep the food warm. Even then it's a very very conservative limit.