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Left a pot of tomato meat sauce out overnight. It's still good, right?

Posted on 2/15/23 at 10:37 am
Posted by Ssubba
Member since Oct 2014
7125 posts
Posted on 2/15/23 at 10:37 am
Slow cooked this thing for six hours yesterday and then used some for lasagna last night. Of course I left the rest of it out overnight. Enough for another night of pasta.

Who else is in the 'still gonna eat it' camp? Not letting it go to waste.
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
129841 posts
Posted on 2/15/23 at 10:38 am to
Reheat it and eat it.


Better today anyway
Posted by saint tiger225
San Diego
Member since Jan 2011
40310 posts
Posted on 2/15/23 at 10:39 am to
You can cook lasagna with fancy meat sauce but don't even know if that meat sauce will be good the next day bc you left it out? Hmmmm
Posted by Penrod
Member since Jan 2011
46411 posts
Posted on 2/15/23 at 10:41 am to
Bring it to a boil. You are good.
Posted by WestCoastAg
Member since Oct 2012
147998 posts
Posted on 2/15/23 at 10:41 am to
Just might make you a little gay
Posted by m2pro
Member since Nov 2008
29192 posts
Posted on 2/15/23 at 10:45 am to
Thats a negative, ghost rider.
Posted by Pax Regis
Alabama
Member since Sep 2007
14266 posts
Posted on 2/15/23 at 10:45 am to
Just reheat it and eat it. Don’t be a bitch.
Posted by Gusoline
Jacksonville, NC
Member since Dec 2013
9922 posts
Posted on 2/15/23 at 10:48 am to
Reheat to 170°. Bacteria dies. You're good.

Taverns used to keep the pot cooking year round and add food as they got it.
Posted by SlickRick55
Member since May 2016
2307 posts
Posted on 2/15/23 at 10:48 am to
All good. You’d be amazed at how much crap you can eat that sits out.
Human body one bad machine.
Posted by lowhound
Effie
Member since Aug 2014
8577 posts
Posted on 2/15/23 at 10:52 am to
If the lid was on it, reheat it and go. I probably would have put it in the fridge this morning though.
Posted by Tbonepatron
Member since Aug 2013
8461 posts
Posted on 2/15/23 at 10:55 am to
Yeah it’s fine. But I will also eat foods a couple weeks past their best by date, so I’m a bit of a loose cannon….
Posted by SomethingLikeA
Member since Jul 2013
1209 posts
Posted on 2/15/23 at 10:56 am to
Report back with symptoms
Posted by MasterJSchroeder
Berwick
Member since Nov 2020
1132 posts
Posted on 2/15/23 at 10:57 am to
IWEI
Posted by JudgeHolden
Gila River
Member since Jan 2008
18566 posts
Posted on 2/15/23 at 10:57 am to
Eat it. If you get the fois, it wasn't good.
Posted by nes2010
Member since Jun 2014
7125 posts
Posted on 2/15/23 at 10:58 am to
According to food science you should toss it. Even if you kill the bacteria you can still have toxins. But I have eaten some pretty questionable stuff, it will most likely be fine. Roll the dice.
Posted by Deep Purple Haze
LA
Member since Jun 2007
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Posted on 2/15/23 at 11:00 am to
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Posted by BhamBlazeDog
Birmingham
Member since Aug 2018
3798 posts
Posted on 2/15/23 at 11:02 am to
quote:

Left a pot of tomato meat sauce out overnight. It's still good, right?



We do this every time we make our sauce, cook it all day on a Saturday, turn off the stove at bedtime, reheat Sunday just before for the family. It's perfectly fine.

ETA, we do keep it covered.
This post was edited on 2/15/23 at 11:03 am
Posted by LSUintheNW
At your mom’s house
Member since Aug 2009
36499 posts
Posted on 2/15/23 at 11:02 am to
quote:

Report back with symptoms


Herpes fo sho but in this day and age of ridiculous high food prices you gotta do what you gotta do.
Posted by SixthAndBarone
Member since Jan 2019
9809 posts
Posted on 2/15/23 at 11:03 am to
quote:

According to food science you should toss it. Even if you kill the bacteria you can still have toxins


Absolutely correct.


Will you get sick? Maybe.
Can you get sick? Absolutely.
Will you not get sick? Maybe.
Can you be just fine? Absolutely.

The science guarantees bacteria could grown in that environment. Was there bacteria there to grow (and grow to the appropriate level to get you sick)? We don’t know. But if it was there, yes it grew.
Posted by Delacroix22
Member since Aug 2013
4390 posts
Posted on 2/15/23 at 11:05 am to
I did this once with a pot of red beans

Cooked it. Ate it for dinner. Forgot to put in the fridge.

Was on my countertop the next morning.

Idk I didn’t risk it and I tossed the whole thing. Broke my heart.

But honestly you can probably get away with it.
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