To ask about reheating rice

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Not really an aibu, but would like quick answers as I want it for my lunch!

Is it ok to reheat special fried rice from the Chinese, been in the fridge for 2 days?

I’m Indian and have grown up reheating and reusing rice. However, a lot of British ‘experts’ who often only started cooking rice as part of a cooking lesson or in rice pudding, often feel they know better and don’t like to do it because of ‘food poisoning’ risk.

It has nothing at all to do with reheating. Nothing.

It is how quickly it was cooled - worktop to fridge. That is the danger.

I buy sachets of rice, it says once opened keep in fridge for 48 hours. Its fine.

Thank you cherries. To be honest until recently it never crossed my mind about rice being a food poisoning thing until someone mentioned it to me.

Yoni - from getting it delivered to putting it in the fridge, probably a couple of hours? Been in the fridge for 2 nights so the 48 hours would be tonight.

It is not dangerous to reheat it. The danger comes from how you store it. It needs to be refridgerated quickly. If it's left around at room temperature before storing it's not safe to eat later even if well reheated.

See the NHS advice here.

Cherries that's really bloody patronising! There is a real risk of food poisoning from rice if it's not handled correctly. Darn those "experts" and their "science"

www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/food-and-diet/can-reheating-rice-cause-food-poisoning/

I wouldnt after 2 hours, sorry

"Once your rice has cooled to room temperature, package it in small servings in individual bags or flat containers. Refrigerate or freeze the rice as soon as possible, ideally within an hour of cooking. It's safest if used within two to three days, though rice can be refrigerated for six days or longer under ideal circumstances"

We leave rice around for 1-2 days at least once a week. No trouble at all. Only been doing that for about 25 years. I'd do it in Britain but not a hot climate.

The only time this habit came a cropper was DH left out some brown rice 3 days before eating it. I told him to bin it but he disregarded & was quite ill after eating it. He now thinks the only risk is brown rice not white.

Cherries has a point no British Asian people I know worry about reheating rice, or the circumstances in which it was cooled originally. Which is not to suggest the science is incorrect, just that there are cultural biases in terms of perception of acceptable risks (as anyone who has been pregnant in very different cultures will be aware cf regular French screenings of toxoplasmosis etc).

I wouldn’t reheat any take away from 2 days ago; i only do it from the day before

My mum insists on making a huge wok of fried rice and leaving it on the worktop, offering everyone that comes a dish of it, it's never properly cooled or stored. I don't know if anyone that's been ill because of it. It makes me shudder though.

I wouldn't with it being from the takeaway as you don't know how long it was hanging about there before it got to you. If it had been home made then I wouldn't be as bothered

Agree with @Cherries101

I reheat rice all the time. Never had food poisoning. As long as you refrigerate it pronto!