will this make me ill?

[NinjaChipmunk]

I made a chili last night and we had some leftovers. I put it in a bowl uncovered to be put away later however I forgot and only discovered it this morning so i have put clingfilm on and stuck in fridge. do you reckon it will be ok to eat? our kitchen does not get particularly hot as its north facing...i just don't want to give myself food poisoning that sall.

DH would eat it.

I wouldn't.

Make of that what you will.

If it was me...I would not eat it. I would let DH eat it though, he has a cast iron stomach

You left it uncovered for a whole night in room temperature?

I wouldn't eat it. If it's made with meat, then no way.

hmm thought so. bugger. will bin it later. what a waste!

I think it'd be fine, and you are going to reheat it afterall.

I do this kind of thing all the time!

I'd eat it and so would DH but only if I didn't tell him . None of us have been ill.....yet.

yes it was left out at room temperature BUT it was overnight therefore cool... I'd eat it as would HD. Obviously you want to heat it nice and thouroughly though...

I'd eat it unless it was out on a hot day. You can tell if something like that is off. My mum left a pan of chilli out on a hot day a few weeks ago and it was very obvious it had gone bad.

But... I ignore use by dates and have an iron constitution.

well its still in the fridge, might give it to dp tomorrow. good to know i'm not crazy to consider it.

You are crazy actually

Why take the risk?

Just to confuse matters, I'd have eaten it last night without batting an eyelid, but I don't think I'd eat it today. Sorry!

Oh, I'd eat it for sure... But then, I'm like WillbeanChariot... Often ignore sell by dates and have the constitution of an ox!

NiandraLaDes you took the words right out of my mouth! I have a similar distain for sell-by-dates.

Use your nose! You'll be able to tell very easily if it's off. If you eat it sooner rather than later and make sure you reheat to boiling point for a couple of minutes you will be absolutely fine. Waste-not-want-not, as my mum used to say (as she scraped the mould off the top of the jam).

I'd be afraid there was a dead insect or something in it, apart from that I'd eat it.

Exactly, TheNextMrsDepp... If it looks bad and smells bad, it is, otherwise, fire away (says the lady who has eaten salami past it's date just a couple of days ago, and thus far, lived to tell the tale)...
Anyway, I often see meat in Tesco that is within it's sell by date, yet looks distinctly dodgy and discoloured (perhaps my local Tesco is a bit grim!). So go with your instincts.

Also, I too have scraped mould off jam . Especially Weight Watchers jam. It gets hairy awful quickly!!

I'd just make sure it got a really good blast when it was cooked, and eat it.
(I too trust my judgement more than dates on packets - have had things go off sooner than their packaging claimed they would, as well as things which were fine past their 'date')

Having spent years eating the food provided by an elderly aunt that didn't have a fridge at all... just a ventilated larder where she kept everything from cheese and cooked meats to freshly shot pheasants she was hanging for flavour.... and not having suffered in the slightest, I'd say your boiled up chilli left for a few hours in a cool-ish room won't have had much chance to develop bad bacteria.

Reheat thoroughly and eat straight away. No need for queasiness.

having studied microbiology, I would say overnight in a cool room is plenty of time to develop some bad bacteria! Some species generate within 20 minutes. So theoretically if you have 1 bacterium to begin with enters your food, after 8 hours you could have 16 777 216 bacteria in your bowl.
granted if you heat it hot enough for long enough you will kill (probably) all of the bacteria. But they may have spent all night producing nasty little toxins which can be extremely heat stable.

In summary, i wouldn't.

I'd re-heat very well and eat.

I trust my judgement too on dates and that