Will eating this chilli kill me?

[LissJas]

Dd had a big party on Friday night. I made a huge chilli con carne in the slow cooker, around 2pm on Friday. It cooked for 12hrs but because I didn't do any rice, it didn't really get touched.

It's been sitting on the side, in the switched off slow cooker since early hours of Saturday morning (I've been away all weekend). The sun is shining on it so I'm guessing that it's a festering pool of bacteria?! I'm wondering if I dare risk heating it up???? Has anyone done this and survived??

I mean I’d eat it, I’d get it boiling hot for a good few minutes first but I’d eat jt

I have, my house isn't very warm admittedly but make sure it really piping hot, as in burn your fingers hot (then let it cool before eating of course).

Go on to the Facebook page 'slow cooked wonders' and everyone will tell you its perfectly fine to eat. It really really isn't. The Food Standards agency has guidelines on storing food safely. This is quite possibly the unsafest storage I have heard of.

I wouldn't risk that, and I'm normally someone comes on here to respond to food safety questions & says it'll be fine. Shame about the waste, though.

By the way you can't destroy toxins with high temperatures. So no, don't heat it and eat it. Bin it.

I don't really understand the idea of hearing to destroy for things like this. It's been in the slow cooker since Friday. It's going to be turning and will taste bad. No amount of heat will make spoiled food fresh again.

I really wouldn't eat that.

I'd also be pissed off that no-one had bothered to put it in a bowl in the fridge.

No I wouldn't eat it.

I'd be really annoyed that it'd been left there and not put in the fridge, but you could literally set it on fire and it wouldn't kill toxins. Making it burning hot isn't going to help kill off anything now living in it, and it's had pretty perfect conditions for growing its own colony.

That's pretty much what I thought.

And yes, I'm very annoyed about the waste!