Eating food left out at room temperature for too long can be risky, even if reheated.
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Oops… I’ve been eating food left out at room temperature overnight and reheated the next day… for my entire life….
you have a stomach of steel at this point
Same lol
Some people smoke and never get cancer.
Therefore smoking is safe?
Try it with rice. I left my rice out of fridge for a night and ate it for lunch on the next day. My stomach was about to explode.
Same 😂
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😂😂😂😂 ouch. Thinking Bout old nasty buffet food just made my stomach hurt
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Hey, I thought that was funny. Put it back.
Buffets are supposed to keep things hotter than 140f, and are required to toss out any foods kept at room temp for longer than 2 hrs.
Yeah
For me is:
If the food smells off, tastes off or looks off. Don't eat it.
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@@ViburaBlanca papaya and durian is an exception, or anything that's normal to have bad or weird smell/taste (fermented stuff etc.)
@@mooshrooom6853 no I agree with you, because I hate papaya, I gave it too many chances, just can’t eat it. 😅
I know it’s under looks off, but lord some people don’t pay attention to slimy 🤮
@@ViburaBlancapapaya is so good it’s like the closest thing to Indian mangos in the US
Am I the only one who has NEVER heard of "fried rice syndrome"? Like everyone just calls it food poisoning right?
Food poisoning just a general term, fried rice syndrome refers to a specific sickness caused by a specific bacteria
@nick-tt1qm which people generally refer to as food poisoning. Because technically, that's what it is. Food that's poisoning you.
They just makeup stuff and expect us to believe it's 'a thing'.
@@betsybarnicle8016it was recently found out that foods such as rice, potatoes, and pasta have their carbohydrate molecules restructured after they’ve been heated and cooled down. It doesn’t turn into so much sugar through digestion, but some other property that actually feeds the gut bacteria. In other words, yes they are rebranding perfectly good for digestion food as bad so that people don’t get healthier, or in this case spend less on their products. Vice TV just dropped a new video on the sugar industry and their exposed tactics to always put out information that contradicts new studies on things that are found to be not good such as sugar, because the food industry makes ridiculously big bucks, they don’t want that to stop. I’ve never heard of someone getting sick from leftover rice. Ever. If it has meat in it and it’s been sitting out for two weeks, yeah you’ll get a nasty bacterial infection and possibly die, but rice that’s been out for a few hours? No way.
Whoever came up with this term, should be due for racist to single out a specific ethnicity 😡
I’ve been eating food at every stage of all of those conditions.
Still here…
Food safety is _cereus_ business.
Sorry, I had to do it.
😂
You mean all those next day pizza😮😮 pieces were supposed to make us sick?!?!
👏👏👏
According to this video I should almost be dead by now but I haven't gotten sick once
@@MAGA_Extremist
Right!!!!! That's what I was just thinking!!
…. Don’t remember having refrigerators in the classroom and lunchtime was definitely more than 4 hours from the time my mom made that bologna sandwich
I've found that I have to keep sandwich ingredients separate or it'll have a smell before I eat it.
You could have an insulated lunchbox with an ice pack to keep it cold.
I always tought that surely people have some place to store their home brought lunches before it's time to eat. 😱 Schools in my country offer free lunch for everyone so bringing your own lunch seemed very exotic to me.
@@kahvipaputyyppi money isn't the issue here in the USA, it's the extremely crappy quality of the food they serve 🤢
Prob child abuse 😢
every leftover pizza placed in a fridge the next day after been left out: yes
Spent two years in rural SE Asia working. All everyone ate was rice that was cooked and stored outside in Tupperware all day.
Damn, I've been living with re-heated food all my life.
Is this a rich people sickness or something?
I think it's an illness for the rich and excuses to waste food
No, it’s a poor people sickness because they’re the ones who choose to eat the rotten food. People don’t wanna waste their money, but it’s already a waste if the food has already gone bad. There’s nothing wrong with reheating food, but there is a lot of things wrong with food has been kept in the danger zone for too long and is starting to exhibit signs of not being good.
@@WorldCitizenW No, but it is a reason for restaurants to not get sued. It’s the same reason to why a lot of restaurants don’t give away their scraps at the end of the day. No restaurant wants to be held liable for causing a food related illness or death.
Did you watch this video?? Reheating food is fine so long as it hasn’t sat at room temp for 4 hours max.
I dunno about these people but Asians and Filipinos literally make fried rice from yesterday and still be ok. We use stove fire+I put soy sauce and vinegar+make sure it doesn't smell foul+wet or moist. Sometimes rice is moist but it smells ok so it's still good. Maybe other people are just not used to it or in Tagalog "Hindi sanay".
At school lunch is always in my bag for hours
This must be incredibly rare, otherwise most people would be effected by it a lot more often. You can tell by the comment section, leaving out food for more then 4 hours is very common. 😅
its not rare at all
but many people get sick without noticing because they luck out and get very minor symptoms. and some build resistances to it over time.
its still a roll of the dice with seizures coma and death on the possible outcome list.
Its not rare, especially in children, elderly, immunocompromised and sick individuals. A lot of times, symptoms are attributed to other things or downplayed. People treat them at home and they don't realize what's causing the symptoms until they spiral out of control. The narrative of "people do this all the time" doesn't mean it's ok to do, to continue doing or to encourage others to do. I personally have gotten better with this, because I have a newborn and don't want to accidentally get em sick just because it's something I've done before.
The "comments" sections aren't reality. Half are just psychopaths deliberately trying to get people sick or killed and the internet is the perfect place to manipulate people. The others are just trickle down types who want to sell food without refigerating it because they're too cheap to buy electricity or the fake "manly" "tough talk" "nothing can ever happen to me" nonsense people like to tell themselves. A bunch of the chronically online makes a bandwagon of nonsense that constitutes the bulk of "comments" sections. Not something anyone should really bet their lives on.
It also depends on the type of food. For example, soups can go bad in about 4hrs, dairy products as well (like milk). Also, where the person lives plays a key role as well. Cooler climates in certain parts of the year are basically a fridge/freezer anyway.
@@101mahina you're partially right
But it's acidic and saline foods that resists going bad
Pickles for example because of their highly acidic and salty contents are just fine on a shelf for weeks and weeks
But most foods begin to go bad after only 2 hours. At that point you can heat them back up and they're fine but you shouldn't try to refrigerate them and store them for later if they've been sitting around that long
After 4 hours? Throw it away
How am I not dead yet then???
Literally this we eat stuff that weve left out on the stove from the day before…
What a ridiculous thing to ask. “If cancer can kill people, why do some survive???” Do you hear yourself??
@@giannisk.916 I cant hear text.
I cook food at 8 am and eat that same food at 1 pm my entire life , will I die soon?
This must be some new thing from somebody’s lab. We’ve been eating leftovers like this all my life.
Instructions umclear. My McD food refuses to mold, it just dries
McDonald’s isn’t food. 🤷🏻♀️
McD is just high fructose corn syrup oil grease tons of salt microplastics and who knows what other chemicals. It's fake "food"
we sometimes forget and leave it outside the fridge over night and just reheat the next day lol. Never had an issue with this. Our ancestors didn't have fridges and they were fine. I am not saying it's a good idea to keep it out. But chances are slim to none that you'll get sick
That’s not true. People that are immunocompromised can get sick easier than someone with a healthy immune system. Also they probably ate all the cooked food besides things like bread they had, or kept it over a fire or coals. Our immune systems are different depending on what you grow up being exposed to.
“Our ancestors were fine” you sure about that?
@@whyamiwastingmytimeonthis you are alive aren't you?
@@FS-yq9ef so by fine you mean “survived in whatever condition just long enough to leave offspring”? Should’ve said so
@@whyamiwastingmytimeonthis you'd know when something is rotten to the core if you can smell it and taste it. Your body is quick to tell if something is off with food.
Oh no, my leftover rice was out for 30 hours.
As it always is.
Why? You are supposed to put away food in the fridge after eating it. Unless it’s something like bread or a shelf stable type of food. Vinegar…
@@PinkRose0910My family normally just leaves the rice in the rice cooker unless it’s a hot, humid summer day, shrug emoji.
I wonder how long those fast food restaurants had the food ready until we got there
Can't speak for all the fast food restaurants out there, but ones like McDonald's have rules which state that food which hasn't been sold within a certain amount of time after being cooked should be disposed.
They actually have to throw out food after an hour or so
I guess my household is built differently.
I have been bringing my lunchbox to office and keeping it at room temperature for 5 hours then eating it for past 5 years
U're asian bro
Wow! That lasted a long time 😅
Lunch on GOD mode?
Yup indian @@bagusprihastomo7439
Is it on a cold bag lunch box?
I've been eating room temperature overnight left over food since forever. You're just weak. Gotta pump those immune system up
This doesn’t apply to us. 😅
We Asians use to eat leftovers nearly everyday and still healthy to eat the leftovers tomorrow again.
They're talking about if it's not left in the fridge to be stored and it's just out on the counter
@@Purpleshade29 👌👌
Technically it's not just the bacteria that will make you sick as with enough heat and time you can certainly kill all the bacteria but the toxins they produce while feeding on the food will make you sick and can't be destroyed by any amount of heat you'd be able to produce in a kitchen
Thank you for the insight
Yes the bacteria's poop is what you can't kill
I bet chlorine dioxide would take care of it..
@@TheNationOfTexas Naw the bacteria poop isn't living, it just makes a toxin. No matter how much you cook it, won't go away. One of the toxins is botcholism. The kind you get out of a canned food item that has a pinhole leak in the can. Many ways to get that and other toxins from unproperly stored foods.
Not all bacteria can be destroyed by heat, please be aware, chicken and other meat can breed bacteria quicker than before,I think it's the additives and some of our systems,also some foods are cooked all the way,I've bought chicken like that, everyone enjoy your great blessed day
The entire Asian people disagree. 😅😅😅
Yes including South Asians!! 😂😂 i’ve left biriyani out overnight because it was too hot to put in the fridge. My stomach’s been perfectly fine!!
Look up top food borne illness bacteria in Asia. They aren’t immune 🤷♂️ China and Taiwan even had an outbreak issue with this specific bacteria
Don't waste food. Eat it!
Composting is an answer for those who feel badly about wasting. Can't compost everything, but it does cut down on waste. Don't have a space for it? Some communities have services that will take it away.
They're not wasting. They're just telling you: instead of cooking food and leaving it at room temperature, wait until you have to eat the food and then cook it, don't prepare it in advance and keep it on your table.
@@ramroum1783most people are busy working, not much time to cook daily.
My Filipina Wife: ha, hold my beer
Because everyone died before the refrigerator was discovered.
Actually the history of food borne illness is pretty fascinating. For example, typhoid fever (often deadly) was widespread in milk in Victorian times, and not having access to refrigeration allowed bacteria to grow much more quickly. So yeah actually, death rates were higher without proper food borne illness prevention, including refrigeration. The more you know!
I like how you say “discovered “, like some explorers were trekking through a mysterious jungle one day and found some odd looking object dangling from a peculiar Giant Tree 😂
This is why cookouts make me nervous. So many people just leave trays of food sitting on a table outside for hours, and no one thinks anything of it. If I go go a cookout, I eat one plate of food, and I take everything as soon as it comes off the grill. No seconds, no food that’s been sitting around. I’ve had food poisoning twice in my life, and I never want to feel pain like that ever again. I don’t even eat at restaurants or fast food anymore. Everything I eat is something I prepared myself. It’s been 5 years now, and it’s amazing the money you save when you stop eating out. It’s sometimes inconvenient, and it’s definitely more work, but it just takes a little planning ahead and a willingness to not be lazy. I’ve never gotten sick from home cooked food, and hopefully I never will.
Yeah, cookouts are a different animal, because food often sits outside in 90 degree heat and sun for hours. Different than an inside kitchen.
And how many cookouts have you heard something happening wrong?.......Exactly dont live in fear of this one. There are PLENTY of things to worry about not this though. Plenty
I don't know this doesn't seem to be that common of an occurrence then because growing up, Chinese, we've left food refrigerated for more than 4 hours for literally my entire life at home with my parents. Never had issues, hell sometimes I still leave food out for 4+ hours, then refrigerate and reheat the next day or more.
I'm not arguing against treating your food with care like refrigerating them once you're done...but think about it logically. How often have you left food out? Ate it later and had no issues? Exactly.
Look up top food borne illnesses bacteria in China
Cafeterias: hold my bacillus cerius
Ive been eating leftover food for 20 years and nothing happened to me
Indian street food vendor: *”Impossible….”*
Saya hidup di Indonesia, dan banyak rumah tangga di Indonesia membiarkan makanan mereka pada suhu ruangan dan tetap memakannya dan tidak terjadi apapun pada tubuh mereka. tentunya ketika kita akan memakannya kita akan mengeceknya terlebih dahulu apakah makanan tersebut membusuk atau tidak.
Dan tidak semua makanan bisa bertahan lama. Tapi ada juga makanan yang bisa bertahan lebih lama. tergantung cara memasak, mengolah, dan menyimpannya. :)
I guess I should be there by now but I didn't even get sick once. I've eaten food that sat out for two days
My apple has been sitting there a while and still looks good
This sounds cereus.
That’s some SERIOUS bacteria.
I've learned from experience in fast food that any food that's left to cool from hot and ready to regrigerator temperature must be done within 6 hours of its original serving/holding time. At home most folks probably throw things in the fridge more or less directly after they've finished eating, which is likely better overall, but my employer has a process for cooling food from 165 °F+ down to ~40 °F within that 6 hour window, supposedly that's the time frame most corporations follow. Danger zone for fastest bacterial growth is between 40 and 140 °F.
Be safe, folks.
I've had food poisoning many times, mostly shellfish, once undercooked chicken. Rice never seemed to be a problem.
Lord… the amount of people that eat overnight room-temp food is astounding. This is why I don’t like eating leftovers at anyone’s house 😂😂😂😂
I AM IMMORTAL
just develop immunity bruh.
A channel that is not only for American audience uses Fahrenheit….
At least when having science in your name use Celsius or Kelvin
Hey!
Shut up. Fahrenheit is fine. And better
I dont have a fridge. Often, my overnight food gets slightly slimy. Still ate it. And still alive, .. apparently. 😊
Maybe you also get antibacterial mold on there too so it cancels out lmao
@@justkittensbeingkittens5892 haha. Could be.
I remember back in the days when our favourite breakfast at home in Nigeria is overnight leftover "tuwo" (a sort of hard gruel made from millet/maize flour) with okro soup. It taste better than when fresh. All these noise about not eating food left out for just 4 hours is nothing but NOISE to me!!
Let that nice looking bacteria come and see if it doesn't become part of the menu.
As a fact I have even eaten rancid and spoilt food before without much ado. All we do is re-boilt it with some potash and it's good to go. But I understand that out there in the west your stomachs are not as hardened as ours.
Who says affluence does not have its downside?
Yesss, in my country there's a traditional food called Rendang.. it could be eaten for almost a week and it tastes better at least after 2 hours after it's cooked 😂
Oh come on.... It's not the West, it's science (a fact not an opinion). Science applies to everyone, it's not white. Different foods can harbour different bacteria. Eating a cake that you baked yesterday is not dangerous. But meats that have been left out are. According to you, the food you're talking about has flour (generally African food is full of ingredients that don't spoil easily), so it might last longer, but this cannot be applied to other kinds of food.
I'm a Nigerian who has lived in the US most of my life... this whole video is just a bunch of noise to most people 😂 myself and my American friends will leave pizza, rice, and other foods sitting out all day and enjoyed it with no problem later. my mom, when she cooks soup or rice at home, might leave it out overnight and only remember to put it away in the morning. and I'll still come down to grab it as a quick snack before she does
How TF do I eat my tiffin then?
Gets packed around 8:00, gets eaten around 13:00.
Throw a small plastic cold-pak block into your lunchbox in the morning. Just an extra precaution.
It's heat resistant! Wtf, I didn't know that!!!
Your eating the bacteria's poop. This is why it's heat resistant.
I must be some sort of super human to have made it to 28😱
Every left over pizza is way better left out
I think most people have built up some pretty intense immune systems for this stuff.
There is different bacteria that can grow on food… E. coli, Salmonella… outbreaks still exist
A shout out to the lady throwing up in the toilet, was realistic, felt the nausea there.
All these comments saying "I've never had an issue" doesn't negate the fact that others can have problems. YOU'RE NOT SPECIAL!
Me after eating reheated Mac and cheese:…..
All those weight loss videos and all I needed was this
I was wondering who leaves food out for hours before eating it. That couldn't possibly be a common problem. And then I started reading the comments...🤢
I refuse to eat food at potlucks because it always seems to end poorly for me. And now I knew why. People are apparently clueless about safe food handling.
I usually leave out blue cheese sometimes for a whole day & eat it…never gotten sick yet.
I’ve eaten my mother’s home made food that has sat out overnight at room temp before. I’ve done it at least 100 times and it has never once tasted funny or smelled funky and I’m always fine. Example is homemade rice and curry. I’ve basically been doing it my entire life whenever we forget to fridge it
The experts obviously don't have a healthy microbiome, and never really been TRUELY hungry. 🤣
How am i still alive?!?!
New fear unlocked
Fried rice syndrome is like the least informative name for something so supposedly dangerous. Makes it sound like a psychological thing where your taste buds confuse everything for fried rice 😂
Room temperature food poisoning is more straightforward. “Leftover syndrome”, even.
Whoever came up with the term should be sue for racist
you could not have made this any less helpful with using that temperature scale that nobody uses
Can't remember having that happening to me... And I've left food sitting at room temperatures for over 30 hours.. It was cooked and had much salt and fat in it which preserved it quite well..
Bro used German temperature units 💀
I guess I've been at risk for 65 years. Oops
Also, some bacteria don't smell,look,taste bad and are harmful. Just...keep em in the fridge.
The hispanic cultures in south Florida will make a food like fish and rice for lunch, will leave the leftovers in their pans on the stove, then eat them again at dinner....as if leaving them in the pan on a cold stove is some kind of magic protection. Yet, I gotta say that no one I knew was getting sick from it. So....
Leaving rice out for 4 hours is fine these people are tripping. Someone died from eating over fried rice and it was all over the news. They were saying the same thing “more then 4 hours could be fatal!!!” … Well apparently
He left it out for a week!… come on
47yrs old and I have been doing this for at least 30yrs….. Nothing has ever happened to me, still will. 😊
My kids have reheated pizza after it’s been sitting out for hours.
Ooooo MAN the auto shop food from Saturday we've been leaving out and eating on Monday 😮
Okay, I’ll throw out that spaghetti that’s been sitting on my stove for 2 days
i usually only keep it for entire day
fried rice in the morning, until night
dry foods like deepfried stuff can last even longer
What about water rice ?
bros telling me I don't refrigerate my food but I still never Had the food poisoning
I literally just had a bout of this syndrome after eating at a Chinese place down the street from me. Although the food tasted really good and the waitress was polite and the atmosphere was calm, I won't be eating there again.
I used to work in a place that sold boba drinks and the health inspector told us to throw out the boba every 4 hours because they're not refrigerated....i mean...we could refrigerate boba...if you like crunchy boba??
As a kid, my older siblings and I would eat pizza that sat out in the box from the night prior. We never got sick. Some foods are safe to eat if left out.
Why did everyone before refrigeration not just die? My grandmother never put leftovers from lunch in the fridge, just covered on the stove and regeated for supper. She said her mom did the same. Would sometimes cover the meal from the day before with a table cloth, and they would just reheat and eat. You certainly didn't throw away scarce food. I've never had food poisoning, and only had one person in my entire extended family that has had salmonella and that was from a restaurant. I think we have let ourselves become weak and our immune systems cant fight certain bacteria like they used to. Society has become too sanitized.
Because the bacteria don’t just magically form after exactly 4 hours.
Of course most food are safe to eat after 4 hours at room temperature but this increases the risk of this bacteria infecting someone.
Like everything in life there’s just a chance that increases with time but it’s not a magical death sentence.
Left over pizza left out until next day😁
Food poisoning is torture and I don't wish that evil on anyone
So many people don't realise how dangerous room temp fried rice is
I am astonished that this is not common sense for most people…
Mileage definitely varies on this one, TBH. I think things like ingredients and room temp play a pretty big part in how long you can leave food out. I try not to leave food out for more than an hour or two (to cool down before I refrigerate it), but I've definitely left it out longer and been fine.
One thing I WILL NOT DO, though, is reheat leftovers more than once. I've heard horror stories of people who've died from reheating old food multiple times.
For non Americans, that's 4c -60c of the danger zone temperatures
Destroys my idea:
"pre-digested" food is GOOD
If you die from food left out over night you weren’t supposed to live that long anyway. You wouldn’t have survived childhood in the middle ages.
For me, as long as its not 5 days old food, its still alright and healthy.
Refrigerators were invented in 1834
People before 1834 : 🤢🤢🤮
I must have an iron stomach. How many times has everyone gone out partying, got late nite food, ate, passed out, woke up and ate the rest of the food that was left out?
I'm not an American ,if it smells bad im not eating it that's it ,if the bac is heat resistant my HCl can do the work
So I wonder what folks did prior to refrigeration when it came to leftovers or left out food?
Ice boxes, different preservation techniques, food that's cooked so that it's basically sealed (surrounded by fat and dough) and so on. There are so many ways to keep food good without a fridge, but leaving it on the countertop for a day isn't one.
I got hygiene pass and after the training I got super scared of germs and cross contamination, reading these comments gives me some peace of mind, apparently it's not that serious of a problem.
LMAO ‼️ HELL I BEEN EATING PIZZA SITTING ON THE COUNTER OVER A WEEK , FOR YEARS✔️ STILL HERE AND FAT AT 51 ‼️
lol i guess im the bacteria king then.
What the f*ck is a fahrenheit
Tell that to my parents that have iron tummies
We at home eat freshly prepared food, breakfast lunch and dinner. All fresh 😊 I feel so good about it
I didn't know that I appreciate you making this video and telling me that cuz I'm one of those that has a bad habit of wrapping something and putting it back in the refrigerator to warm up later thank you for educating me
I do food delivery and dont want to go home to eat lunch so sometimes ill bring food and it sits in my car with me until i eat it. But typically not more than 4 hours.
Am i still going to eat room temperature food that I left out over night? Absolutely.
If those germs can survive the heat, its not even safe to eat from beginning, those food contaminated should never been used....uncle rogers always use leftovers fo fried rice