To eat this pasta bake tonight?

[BlueBoatVillage]

Argh, made a lovely pasta bake last night and did enough for tonight as well as today is going to be manic so won’t really have much time to cook.

We ate half of it and it was on the side, cooling down. I put cling film over it, with the intention of putting it in the fridge once cooled (as I usually do)

Came down this morning and realised I’d forgotten to put it in the fridge I did so straight away when I realised.

Do you think it would be okay to eat tonight or should I bin it?

Absolutely don’t sorry make a new one

I'd eat that thoroughly reheated and would feed it to older kids and adults. I wouldn't risk it with the usual at risk groups, vulnerable elderly, anyone who is immune compromised, babies although you wouldn't give babies such a salty dish anyway?

Are you aware that many of who over 60, grew up in houses that didn't have fridges? We did have a "meat safe" fastened to the wall in our backyard though.

The food poisoning you can get from left out rice is exactly the same food poisoning you get from left out pasta.

Its the same bacteria that grows on both of them.

I would not eat pasta left out overnight.

It’ll be fine.

I’ve eaten cold and reheated rice for approx 35 years and I’ve never got food poisoning.

I would definitely eat it. Just re-heat it thoroughly so it's hot all the way through. Would be such a waste to throw it away!

people who are saying bin it need to realise what they've been eating from cafes and restaurants for time immemorial. if its re-heated enough to kill off any bacteria you are going to be fine and everyone else should stop wasting so much food as it's terrible for the planet.

Which is fine if you're comfortable with it.

A lot of people are very careful with rice though as the food poisoning it causes can be particularly nasty. I'm just pointing out that it's the same bacteria that grows unseen and with no smell on pasta.

It is also is a bacteria that produces spores not killed by heat.

Eat it if you fancy a ‘spring clean’

Me too

I'd eat it.
Have left food for the next day out overnight loads of times accidentally, including bacon pasta. Only thing I would throw away would be a chicken dish.
But my kitchen is the coldest room in the house

Pasta is cheap and as a chef I wouldn't consider eating or serving this.
Bacteria multiply at room temperature so the milk cheese bacon and any eggs in the pasta could make you really ill.
Lesson learned next time get an alarm set on your phone for 90 mins and refrigerate.

I have been doing this all my adult life, never had food poisoning. And this is in a kitchen with an Aga in it.

I wouldn’t with meat in it. If veggie then I would have.

Whelangrand this is wrong.
Restaurants and cafes reheat food that has been refridgerated.
Once bacteria have multiplied too much they can produce toxins that cannot be destroyed by heat.
I know some people take huge risks and have been ok.
Others not so much.

I thought the rule with rice was that you could eat it reheated the next day if refrigerated once cooled but not after that?

Pasta, if you google search it you’re told has 3-5 days after cooking when you can safely eat it, but I always limit to 3.

I wouldn’t even think twice. It will be fine.

All the people saying we didn't have fridges years ago also didn't have central heating. Houses where significantly colder years ago.

But OP didn't have her central heating on last night.

I regularly leave food to cool in the oven overnight and forget about it, then eat it the next day. That includes meat (never chicken, but sausages etc.), pasta dishes and vegetables.

It will be fine. I think all the post war people who experienced rationing and lived without fridges would absolutely despair of the food waste these days.

There are plenty of people still in the world today living in warming climates than us that don't have fridges and that wouldn't waste perfectly good food.

To be fair people did die very young years ago I don't think we should be aiming for their lifestyle

Im curious about the posters saying they wouldn't leave out rice but they would pasta they both grow the same bacteria