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The bacteria is best known for causing a type of food poisoning called "Fried Rice Syndrome," since rice is sometimes cooked and left to cool at room temperature for a few hours. During that time, the bacteria can contaminate it and grow. B. cereus is especially dangerous because it produces a toxin in rice and other starchy foods that is heat resistant and may not die when the food it infects is cooked.

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Unfortunately, that was the case for a 20-year-old student, who passed away after eating five-day-old pasta.

His story was described in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology a few years back, but has since resurfaced due to some YouTube videos and Reddit posts. According to article, every Sunday the student would make his meals for the entire week so he wouldn't need to deal with making it on the weekdays. One Sunday, he cooked up some spaghetti, then put it in Tupperware containers so that days later, he could just add some sauce to it, reheat it and enjoy it.

However, he didn't store the pasta in the fridge, rather he left it out on the counter. After five days of the food sitting out at room temperature, he heated some up and ate it. While he noticed an odd taste to the food, he figured it was just due to the new tomato sauce he added to it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Hell yeah chubbyemu

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Again?!

Edit: oops no. Same guy. I think about this all the time. Like...who raised him to leave pasta on the counter and then eat it?! The sheer ignorance baffles me.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 2 months ago (6 children)

5 days ON THE COUNTER?! And it tasted off, and he consumed it anyway.

This is so stupid that it has to be intentional suicide.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Shoot I'll leave rice on the counter all day sometimes... I should stop doing that.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (4 children)

This thread is interesting. Everywhere ranging from "I eat pizza from the counter after 3 days" to "yeah I would never eat anything left out on the counter for over 2 hours".

And someone said everything in their fridge is food they cooked over 5 days ago.... Why??

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And someone said everything in their fridge is food they cooked over 5 days ago…

I've been doing this for years and years. Maybe not wayyy more than 5 days but it is usually about a week. I don't have all that much time after work so I don't want to waste time cooking and I'm not wasting money on take out so I do all my cooking for the week on Saturday or Sunday. I don't do what the poor kid in the article did though, if anything I put things in the fridge that are still way too hot but I never wanted to risk something like that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (5 children)

if anything I put things in the fridge that are still way too hot but I never wanted to risk something like that.

It's better for food hygiene to go from hot to cold as fast as possible, it reduces the time it spends at the optimal temperatures for bacteria to grow. That's what we do for example when we sterilize milk, tomato, etc.
If your fridge can handle it, it's not a problem AFAIK

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cook it, seal it, put it in the fridge. 5 days is fine.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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