re: Pork and room temperature question

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are only about 10 cases of trichinosis

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Absolutely no worry with any trichinosis when leaving pork at room temperature, even for several days.

Bacterial food poisoning is a different story. You should be OK with several hour exposure to room temperature. I'd begin to worry at 8 hours. Covering them and only exposing them to clean conditions would help a lot.

Good luck. thousands (including me) have done what you mention with no ill effects and three souls did not do so well.

Most of life is an interesting in vivo experiment in practical application of normal, skewed and multi-modal probability.

Oh, the great universal truth is "there actually is no such thing as a free lunch." translated into laymen's terms, this reads, "everything has a cost."