To throw out the bolognese?

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DH cooked a big batch of bolognese yesterday evening to freeze for meals during the coming week. It's probably 4 nights' worth of supper for DH and me.

We both forgot to put it in the fridge, so it's been sitting on the hob overnight. DH left the top off the pan to allow some liquid to evaporate, and when I noticed this morning there was a fly on it.

I want to throw it all out. DH thinks it will be fine and it would be a waste to bin the lot.

Who is being unreasonable?

Would you have binned it if you didn't see the fly?

I'd add wine, boil and freeze.

WTF is not heating things twice, none of you ever made a dinner one night and re heated left overs?!

No wonder that this country wastes so much food.

No to reheating then freezing and then reheating again.

Penelope - reheating last night's dinner is only reheating once? The OP has been told to reheat once today then freeze and reheat for a second time. That is against any safe guidelines. And this is before considering it has not been in the fridge.

I just reheated last nigh Chinese, it even had rice which is meant to be a big food poisoning cause.

It will be fine.

I wouldn't eat it. But if he really wants to, let him risk it!

" WTF is not heating things twice, none of you ever made a dinner one night and re heated left overs?! "
But that is cooking then reheating.
This is why I hate looking, completely illogical

Arrgh no no no! Not if a fly has been in it.

Bin, not worth the worry.

I've recently seen what a fly can do in a short space of time in the cat food bowl. I just threw the whole thing out and ran away.

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I'm sure we've all eaten something a fly has landed on at some point, chances are most of us just don't realise. Add wine, boil and simmer then cool and freeze like the ladies have said.

I'd freeze it & just reheat when I was going to eat it...

Have you at least picked the fly out?

Op has not been back? Which of us is calling local hospitals?

As long as you boil it for a while it will be fine.

I would be more worried about the fly than anything.

What do you think people do in countries where they don't have refrigeration for meat/cooked food anyway?

They have to cook it thoroughly and, my IL's and husband reckon, eat within 72 hours. They would store it in the coolest place though and cover. They would also then reheat it very hot only once.

My grandma had a pantry, not a fridge. People all over the world have to manage without refrigeration.

" I would be more worried about the fly than anything."

Sorry to break it to you but I think the fly has passed on

" I would be more worried about the fly than anything."

Sorry to break it to you but I think the fly has passed on

I was going to say if it's been on the hob overnight and you put it in the fridge the next morning it would be fine.
Then I read you'd left the lid off and a fly had been on it. That would have had me putting it in the bin, even if I would find it wasteful!
Yuk.