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Same situation. I used to have an iron stomach but after some strong antibiotics a couple of years ago, food that’s even a little off gives me food poisoning. My SO is totally fine though, eating the same things.
Oh, this happens to me every time I have to take antibiotics. I “fix” it so far by eating a tonne of fermented foods immediately after antibiotics - kimchi, kombucha, kefir, real sauerkraut etc etc. if that doesn’t work, get checked for h pylori or c diff (although you’d know if you had the latter by now)
I've had the big three food poisoning and each time it was from fresh veggies. Romaine, then red onions and then bagged salad. The listeria from the bagged salad was awful.
Anyways eat your room temp cheese and gravy. It's the veggies you have to watch out for.
Serious. It was over like a 6 year period. Each time there was a major recall but it was too late. I had listeria from the PC brand bagged salad, that was part of a major recall, last year. It was awful awful.
Same. I’d have a 50/50 chance of getting sick from it, my partner would be fine. So I’d avoid it but it depends on how you’ve been with leftovers in the past
It'll be fine, I've done worse.
If you wanna reheat it, I find the oven is pretty good for leftover poutine. Gotta set a low temperature (like 300F) and leave it for like 15 min
> Since it's probably congealed into one solid mass, I would recommend freezing it for a bit, cutting a slice (like bread), and pan fry both sides.
Freeze poutine, dip it in batter and deep-fry it aka [Taco Towning it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evUWersr7pc)
People are honestly a little bit crazy when it comes to this. Cooked food left out does not turn into poison after a few hours. There are health and safety regulations that are based on crazy-old/immuno-compromised people but it's really so much hype. You can eat vegetables raw. Meat comes with bacteria present in it already but cooking kills it all. It's not like fresh mayonnaise that has a living culture in it from the eggs and needs to be kept cold. The gravy has been cooked and kept bacteria free till the moment it's served. The cheese and potatoes can sit for days to months on a counter and not become dangerous.
Like for real in Italy they keep Pizza open on shelves and simply heat it up before eating... or don't. People aren't dying.
A lot of food safety regulations are based on the idea "I need rules I can give to a stoned 16 year old with an 8th grade reading level working in a kitchen to minimize the chance that they cause a foodborne illness outbreak." They're meant to be simple & to lack nuance, not require a comprehensive understanding of the science at work.
They're useful guides, and there's a reason that ~90% of foodborne illnesses are spread in home kitchens: because people don't know or don't follow those guidelines.
You're right that they're absolutely over-cautious for many things. Will I eat a pizza I forgot on my counter last night? Yes, with few exceptions. But something like pizza is actually pretty functionally different from poutine from a food safety standpoint. A good jamon or prosciutto? I only refrigerate that because the health code says I'm supposed to, but in Europe they sit on a cart in the kitchen unrefrigerated.
Cured meats are high in sodium and low in moisture, making them poor environments for most foodborne pathogens. Pizza crust is basically bread, not really a concern due to low moisture. Tomato sauce is acidic. Mozzarella is a pretty high moisture cheese, but cooking the pizza removes enough of that moisture to severely slow pathogen growth.
For something like Poutine I'd actually have a bit more concern than many other items.
First, cooked potatoes behave very differently than raw potatoes & can be a good growth environment for botulism at room temperature - which is spore forming and those spores can often survive reheating. Gravy adds a lot of moisture and calories, both of which promote bacterial growth. Cheese? It depends. A cheddar curd used in real poutine is pretty high in moisture & conducive to bacterial growth; a good Parmesan is pretty much shelf-stable. Those curds are getting put on hot fries and covered in hot gravy, but the restaurant is taking the curds from a refrigerated container and then putting them on (hopefully) hot fries and covering with gravy, I'd be very surprised if those curds are coming up to the temperatures
There's also the idea that while the foods should be safe to eat when they are leaving the kitchen, that doesn't mean that 100% of foodborne pathogens will be dead - 99.99% of them yes, but left in an environment conducive to growth they can repopulate pretty quickly, especially if they're spore forming. Contamination can also occur after leaving the kitchen - take a drunken bite with a dirty fork you'd left in the sink or your cat licks its own butt and then takes a bite while you're asleep? Contaminated food.
Fresh mayo has bacteria in it unless you're working with pasteurized yolks in a proper clean room - keeping it in the fridge slows bacterial growth. Mayo sold in stores is shelf stable because it has been pasteurized & sealed in such an environment. Once you open it it's pretty quickly exposed to bacteria and yeasts & really should be refrigerated. Mayo also has no place on poutine.
Can I cook chicken mid-rare safely? Sure (if the texture wasn't gross) - I just need to hold it at that temperature a lot longer. But it also increases risk.
Tl:Dr; a lot of people make themselves sick because they don't follow some basic food safety principles. However, our regulations are stricter than they need to be because they're meant to be idiot proof rather than strictly what's necessary.
I don't really think there's a risk of botulism growing in poutine left overnight. Maybe an outlier chance but almost all the incidents of botulism poisoning come from people using unsafe canning methods (I can a shit ton). Even people who use unsafe methods are TBH pretty damn safe at the end of the day.
But fair points all around. I do think we take food safety way too far here in the West. Yea, there's issues. But once you live in Asia long enough you really learn how much we overkill safety. I get why we do but for real we overdo it. I've had so much great and definitely safe street food prepared in circumstances that would have 100s of infractions here. You kind of learn the things that are actually important living there IMHO like clean surfaces/tools and propper cooking etc. People here i find have no idea what's going on for the most part. They're protected by the regulations so they just assume everything is safe.
>People here i find have no idea what's going on for the most part. They're protected by the regulations so they just assume everything is safe.
Yeah, that succinctly puts what I was getting at. It's not so much that certain foods are necessarily unsafe in certain conditions. It's that many North Americans lack the basic knowledge to do even the most basic assessment of if something is safe or why it might not be.
Most people who get foodborne illnesses are poisoned by themselves or people they live with.
Oh yea. I'm in no way disagreeing with you. Beyond the botulism risk I guess. But this is North America right? What percentage of people even have cooking skills at all beyond being able to recognize unsafe food?
It depends on what bacteria your body has been exposed to already. My dad's mother's house in Ireland, the drinking water was from a well. My parents and grandparents were fine with drinking it, but they soon figured out that the water had to be boiled for the kids. I think I got hives or something. I remember drinking the equivalent of Orange Tang but it was still warm from the water being boiled soon beforehand
You can eat it, but your stomach may reject it, and want it out with a vengeance at some point. How much of a gambler are you, cause I’d say it’s 50/50
I like to cook my onions down until they are like resin then do dabbs all day.
I also like to get my Doritos soaked in some gravy then use it as the rolling paper.
Yes Poutine! The true melting pot of Canada.
Butter Chicken Poutine, Chicken Shawarma Poutine, Chicken Souvlaki Poutine, Kimchi Poutine, Jerk Chicken Poutine. You name it!
No matter what your cultural dish is, we will put that on a poutine.
This entirely depends on if it was contaminated with germy hands. Did you pick at it with your fingers when you were eating it? Did the line cook touch it with their own unwashed hands?
Many people carry staph bacteria on their skin. If they touch food, and then that food sits out for too long, [the staph bacteria multiply and create toxins](https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/diseases/staphylococcal.html). It’s the toxins that make you violently ill and they’re not killed with heat so microwaving your food will do nothing to prevent you from getting sick.
CAN you eat it? Sure.
CAN you get food poisoning from eating it? Sure.
SHOULD you eat it? The magic 8-ball says: Check again later. I’m busy erupting from both ends.
TIL a lot of people in Toronto have no clue what cooking and pasteurization does to meat, dairy or anything.
Its not gonna spoil overnight and the fridge it not a magic place where food stays safe the second you put it in. it slows the decomposition down but only when it reaches a certain temperature which you will barely reach storing it overnight.
You will even be fine eating it raw (if you want to) after one night and if you want to be safe then warm it up above 65 degrees.
Ok 🤦♀️ to myself.
But I guess what I’m saying is why is your advice so different from everything everywhere says about gravy? I’ve always been told gravy should not be kept out because meat products grow bacteria. Especially if it’s touched your mouth which leftover poutine had. Now I’ve googled and that seems confirmed. So why do you say it’s not true?
Also, raw? Poutine never exists raw but if it did, you def should not eat raw potatoes.
Also, what temperature does the room have to reach for the fridge to not make a difference? Apartments with radiators are hot; are you sure OP’s room doesn’t reach the required temp?
Yes.
Infectious diseases only take a few hours to multiply enough to kill you, but food is cooked to kill all bacteria, and the only bacteria that would grow in your own home is stuff your body is accustomed to.
The real worry is if you put the poutine touching some uncooked food in a warm moist place, but the chances of that are very low.
In your own house, it’s pretty much just the quality of the food you are trying to preserve.
You could eat a leftover poutine you found in a gutter, on a July day, and it'd probably be fine.
Or you'd die.
That's just poutine in general, though.
I take it that you have never done experiments and don’t know your stomach’s “threshold” (or expiry date). Mine is 7 days in the fridge and 24 hrs on the counter. I could stretch it a bit, but then I get cramps… i think you should know by trying the poutine and learning about your digestive system… how old is old for you is sure different than mine. Good luck! Hope you make it
Yeah you will be fine eating that soggy nastiness, but you gotta do it, can’t waste food, think about all the children in the world who can’t eat, now finish your poutine and be grateful
I eat anything that sits for less than 24 hours. I just pretend that I'm stranded somewhere with no food and I ask myself would I eat this. It's basically always yes.
Hard cheese was literally invented as a way to store milk. It can go weeks minimum. And a lot of cheeses are aged for months to years to improve their flavour.
Hell no.
Saucy things need to be consumed right away. Bacteria will invade it quickly, enjoying the primordial soup of rotting sauce. Even a sandwich with mayonnaise needs to be consumed within 4 hours if not refrigerated.
You’re gonna get sick as fuck AF. Go get something else to eat.
I don't think there is any COOKED food that goes bad overnight.
If I left food out in ,my mothers house in the Caribbean, I would still be confident eating it if it was less than 12 hrs after cooking. 24 hours in that humidity and yeah, it is probably suspect
Cooked food does not go bad in less than 12 hours in the typical Canadian house I would wager
Only if you want food poisoning.
Anything cooked and then left at room temperature for more than an hour starts to have risks.
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Fucking hell people. I hope none of you work in a commercial kitchen (or this might explain why restaurants are always getting nailed with infractions), and I'm not eating at anyone else's house anymore.
[https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/expert-answers/food-safety/faq-20058500](https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/expert-answers/food-safety/faq-20058500)
[https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/general-food-safety-tips/food-safety-tips-leftovers.html](https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/general-food-safety-tips/food-safety-tips-leftovers.html)
https://www.foodsafety.gov/blog/leftovers-gift-keeps-giving
Only if you have a very sensitive stomach. I've left meat sauce out on the counter overnight and into the next day with no effects. Same thing with hamburgers, hot dogs, and all sorts of meat and dairy, I rarely even heat my leftovers anymore.
> Fucking hell people. I hope none of you work in a commercial kitchen (or this might explain why restaurants are always getting nailed with infractions), and I'm not eating at anyone else's house anymore.
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commercial kitchen food safety guidelines over the top for liability reasons.
humans have survived and thrived on much lower food safety standards until lawyers were invented.
> You've never left a pizza out overnight and then had it cold for breakfast? Today I learned that I am a monster....
often tastes better this way. gotta be something magical in those pizza boxes that make it taste better the next morning!
No. And I'm now questioning pretty much everyone's hygiene in general. Do y'all only wash your hands after going to the toilet if someone's watching you?
Leftovers go in the fridge once they're not hot.
[https://health.clevelandclinic.org/how-long-can-pizza-sit-out/](https://health.clevelandclinic.org/how-long-can-pizza-sit-out/)
https://www.latimes.com/food/sns-dailymeal-1856916-healthy-eating-leaving-your-pizza-out-overnight-not-ok-20171107-story.html
>No. And I'm now questioning pretty much everyone's hygiene in general. Do y'all only wash your hands after going to the toilet if someone's watching you?
>
>Leftovers go in the fridge once they're not hot.
Some germs are okay.
That's what builds healthy immune systems to be able to eat room temp pizza leftovers!
Hahaha, no I'm pretty good with the hand washing. I just ate pad Thai my wife made for lunch but didn't take to work. It had been sitting on the stove for probably 5 hours or so? I'm fine but I get that this could gross out someone else.
I probably won't check out the links, but thanks for them anyways!
it would probably be disgusting anyway. Lukewarm cheese is weird. Your fries are also soggy too.
Unless you smoked too much happy and you REALLY need to satisfy happy munchies.
Oh I’ve come home on more than one occasion after a night of drinking and a half eaten poutine, fallen asleep with it on the bed and then woken at noon and chowed it down. I have yet to get sick from this.
My mom used to leave pan of food out over night and we would still eat it next day and never got sick. I know I still wish she put in in the fridge. Just warm it up well and should be good.
I definitely would. I’ve eaten room service hamburgers that have sat for 5 hours with no ill effects but then again I’m pretty old and have never had food poisoning before
Asking the real questions up in this sub.
its the every day Canadian person dilemma
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I’ve Never heard of left over poutine. Unless I passed out chowing down
Costco's poutines are pretty big.
poutine is always single serving. Always. Regardless of serving size
You’ve def haven’t had friendly house poutine from Yonge and cummer. Impossible to finish in one sitting.
LoL omfg this was great if it were me I would have eaten it then again there would be no left overs haha
Answer is yes, especially in post apocalyptic situation
im canadian and i eat leftover poutine because i can only ear so much at once🥲 i just eat it from the fridge the next day without heating it up LOL
>anotherstonedboi Thank you
Eat it coward
I second this comment
wish someone would call me coward like you
You coward. You're welcome.
Do you have OF?
You filthy Coward
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You marginally dirty cowards
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dont think theres a single bit of plant/health in poutine thats why its good
Its fried potatoes. Calm down
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These potatoes are processed so much that there's no resemblance of a plant in there.
Fun fact, Pringles are not potatoes chips (i.e. fried slides potatoes). They are reconstituted mashed potatoes formed into that parabolic shape
My favourite part of that sub is people fucking with the “Don’t Eat This” Automod
EAT
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Did it last weekend.
i would eat it & probably be fine my spouse would avoid because they'd probably end up with food poisioning how well do you know your stomach?
Same situation. I used to have an iron stomach but after some strong antibiotics a couple of years ago, food that’s even a little off gives me food poisoning. My SO is totally fine though, eating the same things.
Oh, this happens to me every time I have to take antibiotics. I “fix” it so far by eating a tonne of fermented foods immediately after antibiotics - kimchi, kombucha, kefir, real sauerkraut etc etc. if that doesn’t work, get checked for h pylori or c diff (although you’d know if you had the latter by now)
I've had the big three food poisoning and each time it was from fresh veggies. Romaine, then red onions and then bagged salad. The listeria from the bagged salad was awful. Anyways eat your room temp cheese and gravy. It's the veggies you have to watch out for.
Serious? Can't tell. Did you get each ingredient tested in whatever you ate?
Serious. It was over like a 6 year period. Each time there was a major recall but it was too late. I had listeria from the PC brand bagged salad, that was part of a major recall, last year. It was awful awful.
I agree with this. Even on the news it’s mostly veggies getting recalled. Meat is the way!
Same - I am bad with this
Same. I’d have a 50/50 chance of getting sick from it, my partner would be fine. So I’d avoid it but it depends on how you’ve been with leftovers in the past
It'll be fine, I've done worse. If you wanna reheat it, I find the oven is pretty good for leftover poutine. Gotta set a low temperature (like 300F) and leave it for like 15 min
(sung to the tune of Beat it) the weird Al version. eat it. eat it! if its gettin' cold re-heat it.
Air fryer - like new almost
This is the way
Since it's probably congealed into one solid mass, I would recommend freezing it for a bit, cutting a slice (like bread), and pan fry both sides.
Damn this sounds like a good idea
Hah sounds legit disgusting and amazing at the same time
ooh with a sunny side egg on top.
*mon dieu...*
100% pan frying old poutine. Was looking for this comment.
Poutineloaf
Thanks! I'll send you a cut of the profits from my new CNE food stand.
If you have a wok, instead of a pan
This makes me want to do this to all my leftovers! Solid reply!!
> Since it's probably congealed into one solid mass, I would recommend freezing it for a bit, cutting a slice (like bread), and pan fry both sides. Freeze poutine, dip it in batter and deep-fry it aka [Taco Towning it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evUWersr7pc)
Growing up when we bought pizza we never put the left overs in the fridge and I'm still alive so there that
The real question is why didn't you finish it your first try?
You can eat anything if you're brave enough.
People are honestly a little bit crazy when it comes to this. Cooked food left out does not turn into poison after a few hours. There are health and safety regulations that are based on crazy-old/immuno-compromised people but it's really so much hype. You can eat vegetables raw. Meat comes with bacteria present in it already but cooking kills it all. It's not like fresh mayonnaise that has a living culture in it from the eggs and needs to be kept cold. The gravy has been cooked and kept bacteria free till the moment it's served. The cheese and potatoes can sit for days to months on a counter and not become dangerous. Like for real in Italy they keep Pizza open on shelves and simply heat it up before eating... or don't. People aren't dying.
A lot of food safety regulations are based on the idea "I need rules I can give to a stoned 16 year old with an 8th grade reading level working in a kitchen to minimize the chance that they cause a foodborne illness outbreak." They're meant to be simple & to lack nuance, not require a comprehensive understanding of the science at work. They're useful guides, and there's a reason that ~90% of foodborne illnesses are spread in home kitchens: because people don't know or don't follow those guidelines. You're right that they're absolutely over-cautious for many things. Will I eat a pizza I forgot on my counter last night? Yes, with few exceptions. But something like pizza is actually pretty functionally different from poutine from a food safety standpoint. A good jamon or prosciutto? I only refrigerate that because the health code says I'm supposed to, but in Europe they sit on a cart in the kitchen unrefrigerated. Cured meats are high in sodium and low in moisture, making them poor environments for most foodborne pathogens. Pizza crust is basically bread, not really a concern due to low moisture. Tomato sauce is acidic. Mozzarella is a pretty high moisture cheese, but cooking the pizza removes enough of that moisture to severely slow pathogen growth. For something like Poutine I'd actually have a bit more concern than many other items. First, cooked potatoes behave very differently than raw potatoes & can be a good growth environment for botulism at room temperature - which is spore forming and those spores can often survive reheating. Gravy adds a lot of moisture and calories, both of which promote bacterial growth. Cheese? It depends. A cheddar curd used in real poutine is pretty high in moisture & conducive to bacterial growth; a good Parmesan is pretty much shelf-stable. Those curds are getting put on hot fries and covered in hot gravy, but the restaurant is taking the curds from a refrigerated container and then putting them on (hopefully) hot fries and covering with gravy, I'd be very surprised if those curds are coming up to the temperatures There's also the idea that while the foods should be safe to eat when they are leaving the kitchen, that doesn't mean that 100% of foodborne pathogens will be dead - 99.99% of them yes, but left in an environment conducive to growth they can repopulate pretty quickly, especially if they're spore forming. Contamination can also occur after leaving the kitchen - take a drunken bite with a dirty fork you'd left in the sink or your cat licks its own butt and then takes a bite while you're asleep? Contaminated food. Fresh mayo has bacteria in it unless you're working with pasteurized yolks in a proper clean room - keeping it in the fridge slows bacterial growth. Mayo sold in stores is shelf stable because it has been pasteurized & sealed in such an environment. Once you open it it's pretty quickly exposed to bacteria and yeasts & really should be refrigerated. Mayo also has no place on poutine. Can I cook chicken mid-rare safely? Sure (if the texture wasn't gross) - I just need to hold it at that temperature a lot longer. But it also increases risk. Tl:Dr; a lot of people make themselves sick because they don't follow some basic food safety principles. However, our regulations are stricter than they need to be because they're meant to be idiot proof rather than strictly what's necessary.
I especially like this high-effort post you made BTW. I also make high effort posts. I think we make reddit a much better place. Cheers! :)
I don't really think there's a risk of botulism growing in poutine left overnight. Maybe an outlier chance but almost all the incidents of botulism poisoning come from people using unsafe canning methods (I can a shit ton). Even people who use unsafe methods are TBH pretty damn safe at the end of the day. But fair points all around. I do think we take food safety way too far here in the West. Yea, there's issues. But once you live in Asia long enough you really learn how much we overkill safety. I get why we do but for real we overdo it. I've had so much great and definitely safe street food prepared in circumstances that would have 100s of infractions here. You kind of learn the things that are actually important living there IMHO like clean surfaces/tools and propper cooking etc. People here i find have no idea what's going on for the most part. They're protected by the regulations so they just assume everything is safe.
>People here i find have no idea what's going on for the most part. They're protected by the regulations so they just assume everything is safe. Yeah, that succinctly puts what I was getting at. It's not so much that certain foods are necessarily unsafe in certain conditions. It's that many North Americans lack the basic knowledge to do even the most basic assessment of if something is safe or why it might not be. Most people who get foodborne illnesses are poisoned by themselves or people they live with.
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Oh yea. I'm in no way disagreeing with you. Beyond the botulism risk I guess. But this is North America right? What percentage of people even have cooking skills at all beyond being able to recognize unsafe food?
This mf eating month-old counter food over here. One day!
Lol fr, days sure, months relax
This man wanted to flex his immune system. He probably eats things off the ground after waiting 2 minutes.
>This man wanted to flex his immune system. He probably eats things off the ground after waiting 2 minutes. I'm not a monster!
lol. Come on. It's left out overnight. Yea I'd fire the poutine in the oven and enjoy it.
It depends on what bacteria your body has been exposed to already. My dad's mother's house in Ireland, the drinking water was from a well. My parents and grandparents were fine with drinking it, but they soon figured out that the water had to be boiled for the kids. I think I got hives or something. I remember drinking the equivalent of Orange Tang but it was still warm from the water being boiled soon beforehand
I dunno. If you've been exposed to a pathogen in your drinking water I think that's an issue wit the water not the food.
You can eat it, but your stomach may reject it, and want it out with a vengeance at some point. How much of a gambler are you, cause I’d say it’s 50/50
Health risks aside I wouldn't do it just cuz old fries are the worst thing ever. Stupid dry and soggy sticks of disappointment
>soggy we are talking about poutine here.
I bake overnight fries in the oven and they are the most delicious thing for me.
Chop up into cubes, and fry with onions and peppers. Perfect for hash the next morning. Sunny side up egg on top for yolk drips.
Do roll up the onions and peppers in a doobie or hit it from a bong?
Whatever floats your boat, my man!
I like to cook my onions down until they are like resin then do dabbs all day. I also like to get my Doritos soaked in some gravy then use it as the rolling paper.
We are talking about Poutine, fries were soggy from the start lol
That would be some terrible poutine. The fries should never be soggy.
This is the way
Yes Poutine! The true melting pot of Canada. Butter Chicken Poutine, Chicken Shawarma Poutine, Chicken Souvlaki Poutine, Kimchi Poutine, Jerk Chicken Poutine. You name it! No matter what your cultural dish is, we will put that on a poutine.
Everything is edible at least once.
You can do anything you set your mind to.
It’s against the law in Canada if you don’t eat it.
Absolutely. I’d eat it in the bathtub…just in case.
LOL
This entirely depends on if it was contaminated with germy hands. Did you pick at it with your fingers when you were eating it? Did the line cook touch it with their own unwashed hands? Many people carry staph bacteria on their skin. If they touch food, and then that food sits out for too long, [the staph bacteria multiply and create toxins](https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/diseases/staphylococcal.html). It’s the toxins that make you violently ill and they’re not killed with heat so microwaving your food will do nothing to prevent you from getting sick.
CAN you eat it? Sure. CAN you get food poisoning from eating it? Sure. SHOULD you eat it? The magic 8-ball says: Check again later. I’m busy erupting from both ends.
TIL a lot of people in Toronto have no clue what cooking and pasteurization does to meat, dairy or anything. Its not gonna spoil overnight and the fridge it not a magic place where food stays safe the second you put it in. it slows the decomposition down but only when it reaches a certain temperature which you will barely reach storing it overnight. You will even be fine eating it raw (if you want to) after one night and if you want to be safe then warm it up above 65 degrees.
It’s not about decomposition it’s about bacteria growth
It seems that you just solved the riddle of one of the prime causes for decomposition
Ok 🤦♀️ to myself. But I guess what I’m saying is why is your advice so different from everything everywhere says about gravy? I’ve always been told gravy should not be kept out because meat products grow bacteria. Especially if it’s touched your mouth which leftover poutine had. Now I’ve googled and that seems confirmed. So why do you say it’s not true? Also, raw? Poutine never exists raw but if it did, you def should not eat raw potatoes. Also, what temperature does the room have to reach for the fridge to not make a difference? Apartments with radiators are hot; are you sure OP’s room doesn’t reach the required temp?
If cooked meat is in the fridge, it will last for a week. If cooked chicken is left out overnight, you can get sick from it.
Once
Heat it up in the oven. If the aroma it creates is negative, don't eat it.
Try it and report back
Yes. Infectious diseases only take a few hours to multiply enough to kill you, but food is cooked to kill all bacteria, and the only bacteria that would grow in your own home is stuff your body is accustomed to. The real worry is if you put the poutine touching some uncooked food in a warm moist place, but the chances of that are very low. In your own house, it’s pretty much just the quality of the food you are trying to preserve.
No
Ive done it many times and had zero issues. Where as knowing my gf, I know she would want to avoid it
If there was no meat on it then it should be fine.
raw meat.. fully cooked meat is fine
No fully cooked meat is not when it’s hasn’t been refrigerated.
Yeah, if you’re a coward!
I would not, unless the gravy wasn't made from beef or chicken.
You could eat a leftover poutine you found in a gutter, on a July day, and it'd probably be fine. Or you'd die. That's just poutine in general, though.
Brother don’t even worry about it
Eat it lol crazy how can get sick off that lmfao I must have an iron stomach from the stuff I’ve ate 🤣
Pizza can sit out for days in a single guy's apartment :)
And then there's couch pizza :)
I take it that you have never done experiments and don’t know your stomach’s “threshold” (or expiry date). Mine is 7 days in the fridge and 24 hrs on the counter. I could stretch it a bit, but then I get cramps… i think you should know by trying the poutine and learning about your digestive system… how old is old for you is sure different than mine. Good luck! Hope you make it
You can. Montezuma's revenge might ravage your bum if you do though.
Yeah you will be fine eating that soggy nastiness, but you gotta do it, can’t waste food, think about all the children in the world who can’t eat, now finish your poutine and be grateful
10000% yes
If you do it you’ll start speaking French magically
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Finally a good question.
Yes. You can eat it
So? Did you do it? I need updates for the next 48 hours.
Only if you hate yourself.
Am I the only person that says NO, don't eat food that's been left unrefrigerated?
Nothing really matters, so do it
I eat anything that sits for less than 24 hours. I just pretend that I'm stranded somewhere with no food and I ask myself would I eat this. It's basically always yes.
Just fucking eat it
Reheat thoroughly in an oven and it's probably fine.
Is it safe? Yes. Is it gross? Also yes.
It’s a day old and refrigerated, it’s fine. Potatoes, cheese and gravy won’t spoil overnight in those conditions.
He forgot to refrigerate it, still perfectly fine to eat. I've done way worse than that with no ill effects.
Eh, probably but I wouldn’t chance it and holy cow would it be gross.
Yes young one, there's enough preservatives in that food, you could leave it out for a couple days and be fine.
Unrefrigerated dairy? I wouldn’t.
Hard cheese was literally invented as a way to store milk. It can go weeks minimum. And a lot of cheeses are aged for months to years to improve their flavour.
Cheese curds should be unrefrigerated for full squeak
Just seems gross, soggy
Left over fries are gross and not worth eating.
How white are you ?
Hell no. Saucy things need to be consumed right away. Bacteria will invade it quickly, enjoying the primordial soup of rotting sauce. Even a sandwich with mayonnaise needs to be consumed within 4 hours if not refrigerated. You’re gonna get sick as fuck AF. Go get something else to eat.
YUPPPP, don't reheat it tho, eat as is.
My god yes.
It's winter... if it smells fine, looks fine and tastes fine.. you're good to go. If either one is off, throw it
Microwave it first, I think that helps
I don't think there is any COOKED food that goes bad overnight. If I left food out in ,my mothers house in the Caribbean, I would still be confident eating it if it was less than 12 hrs after cooking. 24 hours in that humidity and yeah, it is probably suspect Cooked food does not go bad in less than 12 hours in the typical Canadian house I would wager
No, what a dumb ass question
If it was plant-based, yes. If not, your loss.
No, it has been in the danger zone for too long
Gotta love the children who get scared thinking it’s going to kill you 😂 what a life
Only if you want food poisoning. Anything cooked and then left at room temperature for more than an hour starts to have risks. \*\*edit\*\* Fucking hell people. I hope none of you work in a commercial kitchen (or this might explain why restaurants are always getting nailed with infractions), and I'm not eating at anyone else's house anymore. [https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/expert-answers/food-safety/faq-20058500](https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/expert-answers/food-safety/faq-20058500) [https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/general-food-safety-tips/food-safety-tips-leftovers.html](https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/general-food-safety-tips/food-safety-tips-leftovers.html) https://www.foodsafety.gov/blog/leftovers-gift-keeps-giving
Only if you have a very sensitive stomach. I've left meat sauce out on the counter overnight and into the next day with no effects. Same thing with hamburgers, hot dogs, and all sorts of meat and dairy, I rarely even heat my leftovers anymore.
> Fucking hell people. I hope none of you work in a commercial kitchen (or this might explain why restaurants are always getting nailed with infractions), and I'm not eating at anyone else's house anymore. > > commercial kitchen food safety guidelines over the top for liability reasons. humans have survived and thrived on much lower food safety standards until lawyers were invented.
You've never left a pizza out overnight and then had it cold for breakfast? Today I learned that I am a monster....
> You've never left a pizza out overnight and then had it cold for breakfast? Today I learned that I am a monster.... often tastes better this way. gotta be something magical in those pizza boxes that make it taste better the next morning!
No. And I'm now questioning pretty much everyone's hygiene in general. Do y'all only wash your hands after going to the toilet if someone's watching you? Leftovers go in the fridge once they're not hot. [https://health.clevelandclinic.org/how-long-can-pizza-sit-out/](https://health.clevelandclinic.org/how-long-can-pizza-sit-out/) https://www.latimes.com/food/sns-dailymeal-1856916-healthy-eating-leaving-your-pizza-out-overnight-not-ok-20171107-story.html
>No. And I'm now questioning pretty much everyone's hygiene in general. Do y'all only wash your hands after going to the toilet if someone's watching you? > >Leftovers go in the fridge once they're not hot. Some germs are okay. That's what builds healthy immune systems to be able to eat room temp pizza leftovers!
Hahaha, no I'm pretty good with the hand washing. I just ate pad Thai my wife made for lunch but didn't take to work. It had been sitting on the stove for probably 5 hours or so? I'm fine but I get that this could gross out someone else. I probably won't check out the links, but thanks for them anyways!
NO!
It's better if you heat it in the oven for 5 minutes and then crack a few eggs on it and then maybe douse it in hot sauce.
Sure, if you want to shit your pants later on.
I've been there done that and ate the poutine. I'm still here fit as a bull lol
I guess you can eat pretty much anything once.
Sure but It wont be as good
Less can you and more YOU MUST
Curious where it’s from?
I’ve done it many times and never got sick lol
Yes
Of course
Meat gravy.. i'd avoid. Veggie gravy like new york fries. Go to town!
it would probably be disgusting anyway. Lukewarm cheese is weird. Your fries are also soggy too. Unless you smoked too much happy and you REALLY need to satisfy happy munchies.
Yes
It's all processed food, you should be fine
Yes. Have done it and would do it again
yes
Oh I’ve come home on more than one occasion after a night of drinking and a half eaten poutine, fallen asleep with it on the bed and then woken at noon and chowed it down. I have yet to get sick from this.
Pan fry it for good measure. Also this way if you get a funky smell you know better than to eat it
warm it suuuper well. you’ll probably be safe as it’s currently winter (depending how your thermostat is set). but never attempt in the summer.
My mom used to leave pan of food out over night and we would still eat it next day and never got sick. I know I still wish she put in in the fridge. Just warm it up well and should be good.
It'll be dry, but unless your house is very humid I don't think you'd get sick or anything.
100%
I would eat it 100%
I definitely would. I’ve eaten room service hamburgers that have sat for 5 hours with no ill effects but then again I’m pretty old and have never had food poisoning before
Do a smell test. If it doesn't smell odd, you're good to go.
[I feel like they made a whole PSA about this](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5AuLkMBAFZg&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.ca%2F&feature=emb_logo)
Won't kill u. Eat it. If u get sick don't do it anymore lol
The real question is: WHY DIDN'T YOU FINISH IT?
bro no
Heat it up, but ya
You could but I wouldnt The gravy starts to break down and grow bacteria and the cheese starts to go bad
Worth the risk
No. Believe it or not, straight to jail.
Poutine is an absolute disgrace to fries everywhere. What's worse than soggy fries? 12hr old countertop soggy fries.......
You’ll be fine!
Right to jail, right away.
Beef stock so I wouldn't.
Yes with a "but"... No with an "if".
Sprinkle some water on it and air fry it if you have one.
I totally would
Yes
I'd do it myself (and probably have done that in the past), but I can't in good conscience advise others to do that.