AIBU throwing food away

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Cooked a chicken dish in the slow cooker. Ate it for tea. Leftovers decanted into tupperware AND LEFT OUT OVERNIGHT 😭😭

AIBU to throw it away?
What would you do?

Throw it away 🍗

Cook it properly later and it'll be fine. I'm very laissez faire.

Was your heating on or off overnight?

Depends how hot your house is. If it’s really warm I’d give it to the cat or dog if you have one. I’ve been known to take a chance and I’m still here to tell the tale, but I think official advice is to throw it away

I’d chuck it in the fridge now. If it was summer I’d throw it away, but my house gets pretty cold at night. But I’d make sure it was boiling hot when I reheated it. DH wouldn’t eat it, but then he doesn’t eat anything past a best before date 🙄

Please don’t feed it to the dog if it’s got onion or garlic in it.

If no heating overnight I’d put it in the fridge now and heat thoroughly before eating. In the summer or a heated house, I’d bin it.

Chicken? Definitely bin it, sorry. It might be fine but I wouldn’t want to take the risk.

I have had dogs all my life all lived to old age eating left overs stew etc with onion in

In my house it would be fine, it was cold in the kitchen last night. Wouldn’t in summer.

Assuming it was thoroughly cooked in the first place, it will be fine.

Given it would last about a week in the fridge, 12 hours at room temp likely fine if you eat it today.

In Winter and if kitchen not too warm, fine. Fridge now and thoroughly reheat before eating. In summer I wouldn't.

If it was fully cooked before being left then it should be okay.

This time of year? Covered? Into fridge now, reheat properly, and eat it today.

Summer? (Or heating on overnight) Bin.

We eat this kind of thing frequently. Never ill.

sounds like you wouldn’t enjoy it if worrying though so bin it .

Bring it round to me.

I'll thoroughly test it for you, and then you'll be able to live safe in the knowledge you would have been ok if I hadn't troughed the lot.

I have had dogs all my life all lived to old age eating left overs stew etc with onion in

Well, you've been slowly poisoning your dogs
https://www.pdsa.org.uk/pet-help-and-advice/pet-health-hub/conditions/onion-and-garlic-poisoning-in-dogs

Chicken ( or other poultry) - no. I’ve had campylobacter from being careless with chicken and wouldn’t want to go there again. My GP told me to assume that all poultry is potentially infected with campylobacter/ salmonella and to follow the food handling rules to the letter. Doubt that your house was as cold as the inside of a fridge, overnight.

Throw it away

My OH would eat it. I wouldn't risk giving it to the kids though.

Yup I’d throw it away. I don’t mess with chicken.

It’s fine, I’d eat jt. What do you think people did before fridges.

That doesn't mean it was good for them.

My grandparents lived to their 80s despite smoking all their lives, but you wouldn't take that as evidence that it's OK to give kids cigarettes. Same applies to giving dogs things that can poison them.

Depends on your house. Mine is cold overnight esp the kitchen (down to as low as 8 degrees in winter) to I would pop in it now and make sure I reheated it thoroughly when eating next time. I wouldn't risk it in the summer though as the kitchen is like a sauna.

Outlook
With treatment, most dogs recover well. It’s very rare for onion, garlic or leek poisoning to cause ongoing severe problems or death.