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Pot of red beans on stove overnight

Posted on 4/23/18 at 8:28 am
Posted by Y.A. Tittle
Member since Sep 2003
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Posted on 4/23/18 at 8:28 am
All cooked with pickled pork cooked in and cooked sausage added shortly before I turned off the fire. Turned off the heat about 9:00. Forgot to put it in the fridge (meant to do so before I went to bed) and woke up in a panic at 6:00 and did so.

It was on the stove in a covered pot the whole time.

Will I kill my family if we heat it up again and eat it tonight?
Posted by ruzil
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2012
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Posted on 4/23/18 at 8:31 am to
Where do I send flowers?
Posted by TypoKnig
Member since Aug 2011
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Posted on 4/23/18 at 8:32 am to
I’d still eat it. If you killed the heat at 9, it would have taken a few hours to cool down before putting it in the fridge anyway.
Posted by Eighteen
Member since Dec 2006
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Posted on 4/23/18 at 8:36 am to
I’d eat it no regrets
Posted by OTIS2
NoLA
Member since Jul 2008
50197 posts
Posted on 4/23/18 at 8:49 am to
That will be fine.
Posted by Cajunate
Louisiana
Member since Aug 2012
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Posted on 4/23/18 at 9:14 am to


Should be fine. Maybe reheat a bit longer than usual.
Posted by kingbob
Sorrento, LA
Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 4/23/18 at 9:16 am to
Just reheat it up to a rolling boil for a few minutes before you eat it again. That will kill whatever was growing in there overnight.
Posted by tigerdup07
Member since Dec 2007
21974 posts
Posted on 4/23/18 at 9:36 am to
you're good. it's the same thing as eating it for lunch and leaving it all day on the stove for supper. families do that all the time for sunday lunches.

Posted by CHEDBALLZ
South Central LA
Member since Dec 2009
21953 posts
Posted on 4/23/18 at 9:53 am to
You'll be fine. My in laws have lunch ready for 11 on Sunday and dont put it in the fridge till 6 or 7 at night...... no one has gotten sick. Just reheat it over 160 for 3 minutes.
Posted by CorkSoaker
Member since Oct 2008
9784 posts
Posted on 4/23/18 at 10:52 am to
Isn’t this a similar way all those people got sick from jambalaya in LA about a year ago? Some type of fund raiser I thought. Hundreds got sick if I remember correctly
Posted by TheOcean
#honeyfriedchicken
Member since Aug 2004
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Posted on 4/23/18 at 10:55 am to
I would eat the hell out of it
Posted by LSU fan 246
Member since Oct 2005
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Posted on 4/23/18 at 10:57 am to
It's fine. We left ours out every Monday for longer than that. No one died
Posted by Ole Geauxt
KnowLa.
Member since Dec 2007
50880 posts
Posted on 4/23/18 at 10:58 am to
I gave myself the bubble guts one night about 35 years ago, when I didn’t notice the bubbles in my gumbo that I fixed that morning.
Posted by geauxpurple
New Orleans
Member since Jul 2014
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Posted on 4/23/18 at 11:46 am to
quote:

Would I kill my family....
There is only one way to find out. Give us an update tomorrow.
Posted by t00f
Not where you think I am
Member since Jul 2016
90521 posts
Posted on 4/23/18 at 11:57 am to
I don't eat anything that includes meat or fish that I leave out all night. Cooked or not.

I am sure you would be OK though, but I would not chance it.

Posted by LSU fan 246
Member since Oct 2005
90567 posts
Posted on 4/23/18 at 11:59 am to
its pickled pork and sausage

not exactly tuna and salmon
Posted by Y.A. Tittle
Member since Sep 2003
101663 posts
Posted on 4/23/18 at 12:00 pm to
quote:

I don't eat anything that includes meat or fish that I leave out all night. Cooked or not.

I am sure you would be OK though, but I would not chance it.


Most of what I'm reading says we are okay if it was never uncovered from the time it was at boiling temperature and then stuck in the fridge covered. Basically, it seems there was virtually no way for any harmful bacteria to get into it.

I'm about 50/50 on whether we eat it, but maybe leaning more toward doing so.

I will let y'all know. If you never hear from me again, you will know what's up.

Thanks for the responses.
Posted by t00f
Not where you think I am
Member since Jul 2016
90521 posts
Posted on 4/23/18 at 12:02 pm to
quote:

its pickled pork and sausage

not exactly tuna and salmon


I know.
Posted by Sparkplug#1
Member since May 2013
7352 posts
Posted on 4/23/18 at 12:08 pm to
I always leave the pot on the stove until morning. You should be fine.
Posted by dpd901
South Louisiana
Member since Apr 2011
7525 posts
Posted on 4/23/18 at 12:13 pm to
The rule is 4 Hours in the “Danger Zone” which is 40-140* farenheit. Some bacteria can be killed by reheating above 165 like Ecoli. Other bacteria produce toxins that are temperature stable up to hundreds of degrees. These include Salmonella and Botchulism. The bacteria die, but the chemical toxins that make you sick (or kill you) are not destroyed by reheating.

The odds that healthy people with properly working immune systems will get sick are low for any given situation, but you are rolling the dice anytime you eat food that exceeds the reccomended time in the danger zone.

Will you or your family get sick? Probably not. Could you get sick? Possibly.

This is the answer that food scientists would give you. I know this because I’ve been working with them directly for over 20 years.
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