My parents unhygienic food practices

[sahknowme]

This is on behalf of my DH, as I'm used to it my parents eccentricities.

My parents seem to live in another world when it comes to food safety. They seem to be against refrigerating cooked meat. For example, they boiled a piece of preserved beef (a traditional dish), and left it on the counter overnight, warmed it up to a simmer then served it. They regularly leave joints of meat out on the counter for 2 to 3 days. Worst of all is the gravy which gets cooled to room temp, left overnight (on the counter), added to, reboiled, then cooled to room temp several times over the course of a week. They even do it to fish soup. We all have strong constitutions, so this doesn't affect us.

My DH is worried, because they serve food to their elderly parents, and to our 1 year old DS. He thinks I should have a word with them, but they are stuck in their ways and won't listen.

AIBU to let them do their own thing? Is this as bad as my DH suggests?

I have this with some of my relatives.

They developed food storage practices (cold larder) when they lived in Un heated houses with larders with a metal mesh window. They perpetuate the same time honoured practices in centrally heatec kitchens with no larders.

And instead of cooking with fresh, local, unprocessed ingredients they are using mass produced chicken that is more susceptible to salmonella contamination, meats that may have been pumped full of water and travelled the world for months, etc,

OP, the gravy / stock business is bloody revolting. Don’t eat it and definitely do not feed any of this to your one year old,