Is this Pasta safe to eat?

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I cooked Spagbol last night ( Monday ) and plated 2 portions for my kids ( 6 & 18 months ) to eat tonight but it didn't get eaten.

Is it safe for them to eat tomorrow night?

It's in the fridge and it's covered.

I don't usually demand sources but this pasta info is new to me so it would be helpful to see something more about this.

Rice - widely known to be problematic.
Pasta - never heard this before.

Always happy to learn more.

Twice reheated when slowly cooled inbetween is the problem. Not reheating in general.
If anyone eats in restaurants, they don't cook rice or often even the pasta to order, you know...
Like I would still happily reheat again, but that's because I quickly cool it down not let it linger. Wouldn't give the latter to small kids just in case

It's probably because it hit news after guy eat 5 days old unrefrigerated pasta... And well. Didn't end well

What I’ve never understood is how reheated rice is bad, but many different cuisines have a version of fried rice, which is all about reusing leftover rice which has been cooled down. Does frying it make it safe again?

I cook every night and take the leftovers to work every day. I indiscriminately leave whatever meal I’ve made in an open Tupperware on the side all evening until it has cooled, then close the lid, and whack in the fridge before bed. I microwave it until just warm every lunchtime (haven’t got time to make it piping hot or wait until it’s not scalding to chuck it down my throat). Often it’s rice, rarely pasta (although I have been known to chuck cold pasta in salads and eat a couple of days later...)

I’ve never had food poisoning in my life. Have I just been lucky? I suppose I’d probably be a bit more cautious if I had had it.

I should note, I don’t have, and never have had, responsibility for feeding children. It’s just myself and DH that I neglect with my poor food hygiene knowledge.

Thanks for sharing the link. It says Precooked food should not be stored in the refrigerator for more than two to three days - does this mean pasta is OK before that point?

5 day old unrefrigerated pasta is not an issue with pasta, that is a basic food hygiene/storage failure.

That doesn't clarify the pasta issue really.

No I agree, but it's been all over how it could be dangerous because someone was a dummy🙄 So people deduce pasta is dangerous. Like with everything where people have half an information

It is absolutely fine to eat leftover pasta as long as it’s been cooled and refrigerated properly. Otherwise everyone would be having food poisoning constantly from ready meals...

It’s best only to re-heat once.

@Goatinthegarden it’s also absolutely fine to eat leftover rice as long as it’s cooled and stored properly. It’s just one of the foods that can be dangerous when dummies don’t do things safely.

you are literally playing Russian Roulette - it is entirely by chance that you have not been seriously ill. Heating to "take the cold edge off" or mixing it with hot food is creating optimal pathogen growth conditions. Leaving it out of the fridge overnight then "heating a bit to take the cold edge off" - really? If I heard of a parent of a child in my school doing that it would be an immediate child protection case

There is no difference in the level of danger from old rice or old pasta ( ie more than 24 hours in a fridge) The chemical composition is very similar, they are both basically a banquet for pathogenic bacteria looking for easy carbs

Ok wow. I guess it’s lucky you don’t work at my children’s school then. I’ve filled in many a safeguarding form over the years but not once has it involved leftover pasta.

'Leaving it out of the fridge overnight then "heating a bit to take the cold edge off" - really? If I heard of a parent of a child in my school doing that it would be an immediate child protection case'

Surely you jest?

So you cooked on mon, reheated on tue but it didn’t get eaten. If that’s right then no, you can’t reheat for a second time.

Second favourite socks is talking Literally rubbish. Sorry.

If you had been in the kitchen at your school you would see pasta being reheated with some regularity. 3 days is fine according to eho.

A quick Google can't find me anything about it being unsafe to reheat pasta. It does say heat through and preferably reboil rather than microwave but can't find a single mention of it being dangerous.

Pasta salad, however, has been known to kill but I would imagine that's due to a dairy ingredient rather than the pasta.

LOL at 'immediate child protection case'!

SS don't even interfere with physical abuse unless serious risk to life. (From experience as a DSL) You think they'd get involved because pasta has been left out!

I would reheat the mince but make fresh pasta. Pasta does not reheat nicely.

What is it in pasta that makes it risky? The flour? Or the water?
I know the bacterial risks rice can pose. But I do always wonder how half of Asia is making mountains of rice, reheating and eating it during the week. So is your local take away.

@secondfavouritesocks Just in case I’m going to get hunted down and my kids taken away from me, the mixing cold pasta with hot food is just for my own ingestion and not my nearly adult kids. Likewise heating it to take the cold edge off it. They do eat leftovers straight from the fridge though and if they’re reheating it I don’t watch them or time them or make them use a food thermometer.

The man who died ate a pasta dish that had been left out at room temperature for "several days".

Pasta kept in the fridge for upto 5 days will be absolutely fine

Even I draw the line at several days!

Would it heck. Child protection services wouldn't give a rat's arse about something like that.

I go by this website and never been ill (although it’s American so you have to bear that in mind).

Cooked pasta = 3-5 days

https://stilltasty.com/fooditems/index/17887

I wouldn’t think twice about eating a spag Bol 3 days later as long as it had been refrigerated.