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?

Heat properly in the oven and it'll be fine

Exactly my health is more important then saving a couple of quid plus if you do get ill the money you will lose from not going to work will be significantly more

It’s probably fine but I don’t risk anything after I left liver pate in a conservatory and ate it when I came home from work and yes I was ill.

Eat it. I always leaving things out overnight, not died yet.

I’d absolutely eat it, it’ll be fine as long as it’s heated up properly.

Absolutely this, I’m always surprised by the number of people who will throw away perfectly good food.

I’d eat it, your kitchen won’t have been that hot overnight, and cheese and bacon are low risk

It'll be absolutely fine. I'd eat and feed it to my kids.
How do you think we all survived without fridges? Meat was kept unrefrigerated in all homes.
I wouldn't eat something like pate or seafood left out but pasta bake that basically sealed in cheese would be fine.

I’d eat it no questions asked

How hot is your kitchen over night? I don’t have heating on in my kitchen and when I’m not cooking it’s quite cool, even in the summer. If it’s cool in your kitchen I’d eat it.

You can get botulism from rice and pasta that has been left at room temp for too long. Reheating it doesn’t kill the spores.

people confuse this with thinking you can’t eat reheated rice, you can, just as long as it was stored correctly beforehand

It comes down to whether youre comfortable with it and if you’d actually enjoy it or just spend the next few hours worrying!

I’m a bit emetophobic so I know it wouldn’t be worth it for me, but clearly a lot of people would and would probably be okay.

Bin it, disinfect the kitchen, bleach everything and burn down the house and possibly your neighbour's house as well just to be on the safe side.

Alternatively heat it thoroughly and eat. People did survive before the invention of fridges.

Bin it, disinfect the kitchen, bleach everything and burn down the house and possibly your neighbour's house as well just to be on the safe side.

This made me laugh🤣🤣

Update- I didn’t eat it 🙈 I just didn’t want to risk it- some comments really put me off. I’d have been feeding it to my 3 year old too so didn’t want to risk them getting ill!

It will be fine. Although it might be better to let the bake cool properly before putting on clingfilm.

Good choice not worth the risk

I’d definitely eat it. My friend who is in food hygiene suggests looking, smelling and tasting and only then don’t eat if anything seems off. Her actual words are “if it’s green don’t t eat it” 😂

I'd just eat it, it'll probably be fine.
You'd have been better not putting cling film over it until it was cool, on the point of going in fridge.
I used to think that heating up to boiling was ok but remember my engineer father, who used to have a job testing equipment, that you have to boil for at least 20 minutes to kill the bacteria. And that doesn't kill the toxins already created.

Me too. The drama and fuss

Some total drama queens on ere 😂 surprised I’m still alive

I'd eat it and not even think there would be anything wrong with it. If it smells okay and hasn't turned green we'd all eat it no problem.

What a waste of an entire meal.

I'd have eaten it.