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

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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?????????????

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AitchTwoOhOneTwo · 17/09/2012 11:05

well let me then take offence on solesource's (whoever the hell she/he is) behalf at your 'thanks, i'll try to remember that' in response to Woffling. a clear statement that you intend to stigmatise her in future.

or would it be silly of me to do that?

EdMcDunnough · 17/09/2012 11:09

yes, it would - Woffling adressed me, I thanked her. You have no idea from that whether I intended to stigmatise anyone.

As I've said countless times since, I don't know what SS is generally like, I was only going by her posts here, I haven't been outrageously horrible to her.

I don't stigmatise people as a rule, from one person's opinion.

How about you have a go at Woffling about what she said, instead of me? Last time I had a disagreement with you on here I ended up leaving for months. I've no wish to fall out especially not over something like this. And fwiw if Solesource has no further issue with me, perhaps you ought not to either?

blisterpack · 17/09/2012 11:09

I wouldn't eat it if I was pregnant. If not, I'd serve it today only and try and finish as much of it as possible and bin the rest.

AitchTwoOhOneTwo · 17/09/2012 11:12

oh fgs.

and as for 'last time i had a disagreement' etc... nice sneaky attack on character. what was your old name, i've no idea who you are.

EdMcDunnough · 17/09/2012 11:15

Sorry?

I cannot say the right thing, can I? I'm not attacking you. I'm saying that I have had enough of trying to defend my position here when I feel there is little of note to defend. and I put it in the context of our previous falling out, which was years ago, and which you have no reason to feel bad about, and I probably don't either, but we do tend to argue about pointless things on occasion. This being one of them.

I'm not going to continue, I've got other things to do.

AitchTwoOhOneTwo · 17/09/2012 11:16

but i don't have the slightest idea who you are. what 'falling out'?

EdMcDunnough · 17/09/2012 11:19

It was something you won't even remember, but I do for some reason.

Probably because it was my own fault! I'm sorry to have brought it up. You did nothing terrible, we simply disagreed about something or other, I walked off and flounced.

I don't want to say who I was and it wouldn't mean anything to you anyway - if I can even remember what name I was under then, which I can't,

Sorry. Please, please can we just leave it now, I have washing to hang up!

AitchTwoOhOneTwo · 17/09/2012 11:20

yes, go and hang out your washing. [baffled face]

EdMcDunnough · 17/09/2012 11:20

should add that I have a lot of respect for your posts - probably too much - if you were some numpty I'd just say FGS and wander off, but I keep going because I want to convince you I'm a nice person.

If that's a bit sad, then so be it.

EdMcDunnough · 17/09/2012 11:21

if it helps it was a thread on a contentious issue, plenty of people for and against - we were just on opposite sides.

Honestly you wouldn't be interested.

Flisspaps · 17/09/2012 11:21

My understanding is that the advice now is to get food into the fridge ASAP without leaving it to cool as it is safer and doesn't heat your fridge up (your fridge works harder to compensate).

Am on my phone and DS is on my lap but will go through the paperwork I have here when I get the chance. I know this is certainly now the case if you make bottles in advance so I don't see how it'd be different for any other foodstuff.

AitchTwoOhOneTwo · 17/09/2012 11:44

oh i've no doubt you're a nice person, most people are. let's forget all about this, i already have. (really. i can't remember things from one day to the next, this will be no exception i assure you).

EdMcDunnough · 17/09/2012 11:46

Thanks.

valiumredhead · 17/09/2012 11:53

Hot bottle in the fridge? Surely not!

ethelb · 17/09/2012 11:58

umm, actually I disagree that it is ok.

Women on here squark over a piece of unpasturised cheese, in case they get a problem that has not been a problem since the mid-80s, they refuse to eat cured meats that have been through the rigours of the manufacturing process despit v little evidence that this would present any problems.

However, there is a very real posibility that OP could get all number of pathogens from this meat. It is a very, very small risk, yes, but it is substantially bigger than most "risks" pregnant women avoid.

limitedperiodonly · 17/09/2012 12:04

OP do whatever makes you happy. It's not worth worrying about for the sake of £20 - and I've noticed that what makes you happy is to feed it to your DH

Anyway, can I just say I had a great conversation with SoleSource on a very important thread about Celebrity Big Brother. At least, I thought it was her.

I agreed with Ed the other day too. I can't remember whether the issue was as important as CBB, though. Is anything?

ethelb · 17/09/2012 12:09

I think OP made the right choice by chosing to give it to a healthy adult rather than eat it herself.

Flisspaps · 18/09/2012 09:17

valium yes - the advice now is to put bottles in the fridge immediately they are made rather than leaving on the side to cool first (if you make in advance rather than one at a time)

RaisinDEtre · 18/09/2012 09:34

I would like to see the new guidance wrt putting hot bottles into the fridge, can you link fliss please? Am on mob, googling not easy, sorry for patheticness

PicklesThePottyMouthedParrot · 18/09/2012 09:49

They say to make the bottles flash cool
In ice and store at back of fridge if making in advance now, as your supposed to use 70 degree water and ideally make fresh. Proper palaver.

valiumredhead · 18/09/2012 11:18

I used to make bottles up in advance then run them under a cool tap and then into the fridge. Putting them in hot would go against everything I have ever been taught as a Nursery Nurse (many moons ago) and working in kitchens for years!

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