Steak left out 2hrs in hot car....

Is it still medium rare?

Maybe yes, maybe no. It depends on a number of factors. When in doubt, throw it out.

The nose knows.

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Posters here will tell you it is fine. Throw that shite out.

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Tell me the difference between that and doing sous vide or being in a 150 degree oven for 2 hours

Seems like if you are cooking it right away or soon. I problem. I would wonder about it getting up to 100+ then bringing it to fridge or freezer temp then bringing it back up.

It's okay if you like bacteria like Salmonella, E. Cole and Listeria which can multiply rapidly after only 1 hour and temps above 90 F.

Cooking may not kill all the toxins they produce.

Good luck

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It's okay if you like bacteria like Salmonella, E. Cole and Listeria which can multiply rapidly after only 1 hour and temps above 90 F.

Cooking may not kill all the toxins they produce.

Good luck

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Lol, gtfo of here. Sure, it can multiply and if you don't cook it for 2 days you maybe right.

The real answer is that humans have gotten extremely weak stomachs over time due to refrigeration, cooking. etc.

How do you think people survived prior to modern refrigeration? Meat was salted sure, but it wasnt sanitary and what not for many many days at a time.

I'm not positive I've ever had food "poisoning" but I eat a ton of stuff most throw out. 2 week old leftovers, wild game, organ meat, etc.

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Guess we should never cook meat then

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That’s not what he said at all. Keep on acting like the science of bacterial growth is wrong.

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Tell me the difference between that and doing sous vide or being in a 150 degree oven for 2 hours

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The steak in the car:
The steak in the car sits in the “danger zone” until it cools down in the fridge again. Possibility of bacteria growth. Now the steak is sitting in the fridge and all that extra bacteria that grew is now multiplying. The fridge slows it down, it doesn’t stop it.

Then you go to cook it later and there’s too much bacteria there to kill. Remember, heating the meat to X temperature only kills a certain amount of bacteria.

The steak (that wasn’t in the car) cooking at 150
It sits in the “danger zone” for less time and eventually comes up to a proper lethality temp. It doesn’t go in the oven at 150 for 2 hours and then in the fridge and then cooked later.


Make fun of me all you want, post Southpark gifs, be an idiot…it doesn’t change the facts. As I have always said…it’s probably fine but the science says that there’s a possibility that it is not.

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When in doubt, throw it out.

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When in doubt, put it in yo mout.