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?

I'd eat it but I have a cast iron stomach!

It's the toxins that the bacteria create whilst growing that make you sick. Killing the bacteria makes no difference.

I'd cook & eat BUT:

Oven at 180 Fan
Straight from fridge to oven
Food thermometer > 60 C at center before serving.

Do NOT freeze. Do NOT let it spend any more time at any temp 10 C - 56 C

Of course it’s ok to eat it tonight. What do you think people did with leftovers before fridges were commonplace? When I was very young, a couple of my friends didn’t have fridges and leftovers like this would just be put in the pantry until the next day.

I'd eat it!