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Help, DH left food out all night and saying its safe

146 replies

catfart · 16/09/2012 08:39

Sorry posted this twice as I need a quick answer and it does fit in AIBU.

I am so angry this morrning, I slow cooked a beautiful whole shoulder of lamb yesterday, last night it came out of the oven at 8pm. I was planning on using it to batch freeze meals like shepards pies for my little boy and after the pregnancy. I was shattered (pregnant) and asked husband to put it in the fridge to cool after an hour so I could make the meals to go in the freezer today.

I come down this morning and to find its been left out all night, I put it in the fridge at 7am.

Can we eat this now? Can I use it for my freezer meals...

My husband thinks I am being ridiculous as I say that there is potential now that it could be unsafe, he says that all bugs are dead in it because I cooked it so long!!! I think slowly cooling like that and staying at room temperature is very bad.

Anyway, am I being OTT? We haven't got money to burn, this is a £22 shoulder that was to make a huge batch of lovely shepards pies for us and my son when the baby arrives and also ragu for pasta....I just feel gutted. Why didn't he do as I say?????????????

OP posts:
Catsmamma · 16/09/2012 08:39

really woman, calm down.

rubyslippers · 16/09/2012 08:40

Smell it ... The nights are much cooler than they have been recently

If it smells ok then it probably is

RosemaryHoyt · 16/09/2012 08:41

I'd get him to buy you a new shoulder and cook it to specification frankly. But it should be ok. I'd get him to eat it now, check he is still standing in 6hrs and then stArt cooking xx

RaisinDEtre · 16/09/2012 08:41

it'll be fine honestly it will

go ahead with your batch cooking

cairnterrier · 16/09/2012 08:41

I doubt that it would have been cool enough to put in the fridge only an hour after coming out of the oven anyway.

talkingnonsense · 16/09/2012 08:42

It's really annoying, but I think lamb would be ok- dh did this with mince the other day and I was a bit dubious, but gave it a good boil and it was fine. Make him eat some first though!

Callisto · 16/09/2012 08:42

You are a loon OP, in the nicest possible way. Smile It will be absolutely fine, especially as you will be re-heating it before you eat it. Red meats tell you when they are off by the smell.

WelshMaenad · 16/09/2012 08:42

I would, and do all the time as DH is just as useless. Just reheat it till piping hot.

SoleSource · 16/09/2012 08:42

After one hour it would be too warm to refridgerate. It will ne fine. You must be a nightmare to live with

RillaBlythe · 16/09/2012 08:43

It will be absolutely fine.

Original poster
catfart · 16/09/2012 08:43

Right, I'm calming down, blaming this on my pregnancy hormones fuddling my brain. I am going to batch freeze meals...and chilll out!

Thanks

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WofflingOn · 16/09/2012 08:43

I think it will be fine, it wouldn't have been cool enough to put in the fridge until midnight or later anyway, so it's really not been out long enough to cause a problem.
I have done this accidently a couple of times, having fallen asleep whilst waiting to put it in the fridge and all has been well.
Why did he forget?

Original poster
catfart · 16/09/2012 08:43

I am solesource, I am!

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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 16/09/2012 08:44

If it is going to be heated through thoroughly for whatever you are cooking, it should be fine. Before people had freezers, they used to leave the cooked joint in the cold larder overnight - and as ruby says, the nights have been much cooler recently.

If it had been a really warm night, I wouldn't risk it, but this sounds fine.

One evil thought - make him eat a nice, big slice of it, and if he's not ill, it's fine. If he is - karma!

BitOutOfPractice · 16/09/2012 08:45

Cooling it down slowly is precisely what you should do op. you shouldn't put anything in the fridge until it has cooled completely. I doubt a large joint would've been cool enough after an hour.

Tee2072 · 16/09/2012 08:45

It will be perfectly fine, as has been said.

Honestly, the food advice in the UK is so OTT no wonder we waste so much of it.

atacareercrossroads · 16/09/2012 08:45

Yanbu, I wouldn't risk it if pg and was giving it to a child aswell. Get him to buy another one and hopefully that'll learn him.

Original poster
catfart · 16/09/2012 08:46

I was admitted to hospital once for really serious food poisoning as a child, was in for 3 days, on a drip etc. Was one of my mums spaghetti Bolognese, so I do get a bit hyper worried about this stuff.

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WofflingOn · 16/09/2012 08:47

Fair enough to be worried, pregnant and with a past history of dodgy food being given to you. Mince or shellfish are a completely different situation.

Flojo1979 · 16/09/2012 08:49

Seriously? U r batch cooking for a baby that hasn't even arrived yet?
U do know that cooked meals r only supposed to be in your freezer for 6 months? and your baby wont even be on baby rice by then!
Sorry but YABcrazy! Eat the lovely lamb with dh and stop worrying about being pregnant and having time to do stuff!

Proudnscary · 16/09/2012 08:51

Can't you use your offending husband as the tester in manner of courtiers of a monarch? If he keels over dead, I'd advise you not to eat it.

Original poster
catfart · 16/09/2012 08:52

flojo1979, I'm batch cooking for my DS1 who is 2 years old, my husband and I live well away from family, over 4 hours away - he loves his food and I want to make sure he has nice meals as my DH has his hands full with work and takes hours cooking things, just trying to take the pressure off.

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atacareercrossroads · 16/09/2012 08:52

I gave us all a bug by doing something similar with a joint of beef, felt so guilty, especially for Ds which is why I'm possibly a bit warier than some. I did wish I had just bloody thrown the thing away rather than worry about the bloody £15 quid it cost

MmeLindor · 16/09/2012 08:54

Flo
I think you have misunderstood the Op

Don't worry about it. Unless you live someplace really warm, you don't have to worry.

I'd be more careful if it were fish or mince, but a shoulder of lamb will be fine.

ArthurShappey · 16/09/2012 08:55

I think it'll be fine. To be honest I think it would have been more 'dangerous' had your DH put it in the fridge. 1 hour to cool a whole shoulder prior to refrigerating is not enough IMO, it would still have been very warm.