Do I need to throw this food away?

[newmumagainn]

Cooked a roast chicken dinner yesterday, took the remaining meat off the chicken and put into a bowl and covered it. Forgot to put it in the fridge. It's been on the side in the kitchen since 8pm, remembered it's at 8am.

Looks fine, smells fine, cold in the kitchen, so much chicken left!

Also a plate of roasters, leeks, spinach and carrots and onions were covered and left out too.

Thanks

I would throw it to be on the safe side. But I think it more depends on how cool your kitchen is? It has been quite warm the past few nights.

@notangelinajolie so you would throw away the veg as well as the chicken? Just why?

Do you normally waste food? There is rarely any need for food to be thrown away. Such a bad attitude to have

It was freezing cold here last night. House is still cold now, but unless there's a heatwave, I absolutely would use food that's been at room temperature overnight.

It's only the last 50/60 years that people have routinely had fridges, before that all food was stored at room temperature for a day or two until it was eaten.

What a waste

What an appalling waste
We left our lamb out last night, covered over with foil as it was still warm when we went to bed (very large leg that had been On the bbq, we ate late!). This morning when dh got up, he put it in the fridge. It’s absolutely fine.

I would've done like your husband and thrown it all away. I don't eat reheated food at all so whatever my family doesn't eat at dinner goes in the bin

The stuff was bad and he was right to throw it away. Just this morning I threw out the leftovers from last night's dinner and I saw I had 3 unopened loaves of bread that expired yesterday so those got thrown out too

I wouldn’t eat meat left out all night either, may have possibly risked the veg but not for the children. Heating still on here at night though as the temperature drops so kitchen not that cold.

I wouldn't eat it. I don't particularly like waste but I like food that hasn't been refrigerated even less.

@Volcanoblast216 wtaf? 'The stuff was bad'?? And you threw three loaves of bread out? I hope you're having a fucking laff here?

Sad to read of so much unnecessary food waste, especially when some people including children are going hungry.

Sad to read of so much unnecessary food waste, especially when some people including children are going hungry.

I said I wouldn't eat it. You are not hearing about unnecessary food waste there because I don't have it. OP has it. I don't leave food out because I don't like waste. As part of my switching off before bed routine I check the kitchen to ensure I don't forget to put any food away. Me saying I would t eat this food isn't indicative that I waste food.

@purrswhileheeats Yes, if its sat out overnight it needs to be thrown out and yes the bread expired so it needed to be thrown away. It's in my outside bin if you really want it

@Volcanoblast216 Have you always been a twat or is it a new recent thing?

@Volcanoblast216 why are you buying so much bread if it ends up being chucked?

Genuinely don't understand this attitude. Why wouldn't you freeze it/ give it to someone else if you have too much?

I would't eat chicken left out all night (immunocompromised here) but definitely would have eaten the roast potatoes and veg. I loathe waste so it's rare for us to have to bin stuff.

Didn't even know you could freeze it. But I will try to buy a little less since I do throw out a lot of food

yes the bread expired so it needed to be thrown away

Don't be so ridiculous, I know MNers are weird about use by dates but I didn't know any were so stupid as it firstly buy 3 loaves of bread too many and then second throw them away for no good reason.

I hope for some reason you aren't being truthful.

Yes I'm serious, I'll admit I'm the queen of throwing stuff away. I live by those dates religiously and I don't allow anybody in my house to eat anything once it's out of date and I bin everything to make sure of it.

I don't appreciate being called stupid just because I choose not to eat old food or leftovers

'The stuff was bad' 😂😂😂

Love it. Will this be the new 'cancel the cheque'?

Volcanoblast, I hope you don't eat in restaurants. You often get precooked then reheated food.

Volcano, but why, the dates don't mean anything half the time? Do you include fruit and veg in that?

The date is often totally meaningless, some things have been stored for months prior to arriving in the shop where they put a date on it, and they can be fine for weeks after the date. You know things are off by looking at them and things like bananas, avocados, and brie type cheeses for that matter aren't even ripe and ready to eat on the date.

Your thinking is such a polar opposite to mine that I'm fascinated, I simply can't comprehend it.

And why do you buy so much food, that gets thrown away. Three loaves of bread . Don't you feel guilty? Even if you're not bothered about the money, there's the environmental cost, the impact on animals if you're throwing animal products away and the fact that others may have gone without for food to sit uselessly in your house before going in the bin.

Yes, the same happens with fruit and veg. I'll keep them for 2-3 days and if we haven't gotten to them by then they go in the bin so I can have fresh food.

I don't want us running out food so I overbuy and after sitting in my fridge for 2-3 days and convinced that it's no longer good and I bin it. Even at Easter, we had a ham we didn't even touch but it had been sitting out for awhile so I decided it needed to be binned. I don't really feel guilty about it

Yeah, when I do a roast I always leave it to cool then go to bed and forget about it till the next day, fridge then cooking it should kill some germs.
Mind you yesterday I ate 4 day old potato wedges I found left in the oven.

@Volcanoblast216 Yawn.

@Volcanoblast216 that's both disgusting and ridiculous. Dates are mainly best before rather than use by, so you are wasting huge amounts of food without actually checking. Best before is a guide ffs.
Buy less and stop being so stupid.

@Reluctantbettlynch It's a wind up. Don't bite.