does defrosted food always have to be taken to bubbling and cooled?

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i always do when meat/fish involved

but e.g. frozen pureed fruit? ok just to defrost in a fridge and use cool?

I don't understand.

Talk me through what you do when you defrost stuff, because the way you say you do fruit is fine and the correct way to defrost anything...

i'm thinking for babies

usual advice is to blast the frozen stuff til bubbling and allow to cool

Now, you see I wouldn't do that.

Food which is in the "danger zone" ie: 10 degrees ish - 60 odd degrees ish is dangerous because bacteria can multiply at those temperatures.

If you defrost in the fridge, then it doesn't even get to the danger zone. But if you reheat it, and let it cool again, it's in the zone twice. Plus once when you first cooked it, presumably.

So my advice would be to defrost in the fridge for 24 hours before you want to use it.

frozen pureed fruit/veg etc is fine defrosted in fridge and eaten cool.

The 'heat thoroughly until bubbling' advice is only really for meat/fish/chicken and rice, and then it should be eaten as soon as it is cool enough to do so.

ok, thanks

will continue to reheat anything meaty to bubbling point