Court of Mumsnet - is this pork going to poison us??

[Pruni]

Defrosted a large piece of pork in the microwave today - at 12.30pm. It took 1.5 hours on auto-defrost. That takes us to 2pm. I forgot about it.
At 4.30 I went to the microwave and the pork was about body temperature. So it had been sitting for 2.5 hours.
The plan is to slow-cook it (with garlic and fennel mmmmmm) BUT:
Is 2.5 hours long enough for toxins to form? Are we all going to be hideously sick??

yeah it'll be fine!

Does it smell? If not it will taste fine and won't harm you as long as you cook it well.

Oh, I expect you'll be fine

yes I would use it

my mum always leaves meat out overnight to defrost...
afaik none of us have ever had food poisoning! lol

Hmmm
We cooked dodgy pork when ds was 3 weeks old.
Well you can imagine how welcome food poisoning was at a time like that [utterly stupid emoticon]

It's the warmth of it that unsettled me...

Will be fine - sounds lovely.

as long as it's completely cooked through then it should be fine

Agree about the warmth, but the nose is a good indicator.
Wouldn't touch ham or the like if it had been allowed to get so warm and wasn't to be cooked, but a thorough cooking should do the trick.

I always cook pork for about 15 minutes after the said time always. I too Pruni am always worried about pork.

Doesn't help when DP's mum says "never eat pork if there isn't an 'R' in the month" WTF????