I cooked some basmati rice the day before yesterday...

[TooTicky]

...and refrigerated it as soon as it cooled, is it okay to use it today?

Advice is to keep cooked rise for only 1 day before reheating and eating.

From Food Standards Agency:

Uncooked rice can contain spores of Bacillus cereus, bacteria that can cause food poisoning. When the rice is cooked, the spores can survive. Then, if the rice is left standing at room temperature, the spores will multiply and may produce toxins (poisons) that cause vomiting or diarrhoea. Reheating the rice won't get rid of these toxins.

So, the longer cooked rice is left at room temperature, the more likely it is that bacteria, or the toxins they produce, could stop the rice being safe to eat.

It's best to serve rice when it has just been cooked. If that isn't possible, cool the rice as quickly as possible (ideally within one hour) and keep it in the fridge for no more than one day until reheating.

Remember that when you reheat any food, you should always check that it's piping hot all the way through, and avoid reheating more than once.

that will be RICE by the way

Thanks. I had a feeling that was the case, just don't like being wasteful.

you know mumsnet is the only place I've come across this rice thing

and I still can't stop keeping boiled rice in the fridge and using it up to 3 or sometimes 4 days later

and we still chuck a kettle full of boiling water over it as it lies in a sieve .. which heats and separates it perfectly (as my father was taught to do as a boy in India)

and nobody I know has ever had a problem with re-cooked rice

Oh...so shall I eat it then?

it's also ironic that rice is one thing which is regularly bought as a reheated product in fried rice...

we had this discussion on here recently and no one said they had been poisoned by rice and yet it is the most common cause of food poisoning

I'm with Twig - we have always done this, inc for ds and now I am paranoid about the stuff! Does it give rise to mild food poisoning or would it be a full on dangerous to tots no-no?

i have had food poisoning from rice - some rissole type things in a restaurant. It was really horrible violent projectiling from all orifices type food poisoning that lasted 24 hours. Has made me very wary of rice and would never risk old rice again.

It smells okay...I was going to fry it up with some veg...still don't know what to do!

eat it and then if necessary you can simply change your name to tell us if you get ill...

toosicky!

I am not suggesting for a minute that YOU should eat it .. I am just saying that I would and do

in fact have just eaten rice left over from Weds

oh no hang on a minute

OMG is this the one time I'm going to be ill

... ahh no .. just a bit of wind

up to you, personally I think you can over-sanitise life these days .. I once had horrific food poisoning from prawns .. I still eat them

Well, I ate it.

And I'm fine

Didn't reheat it though.

is not reheating it more risky?

glad you had no bad consequences