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According to this Lifehacker article (http://skillet.lifehacker.com/leftover-rice-could-make-you-very-sick-1793530699 http://skillet.lifehacker.com/leftover-ric
by vilhelm_s 9y ago
According to this Lifehacker article (http://skillet.lifehacker.com/leftover-rice-could-make-you-very-sick-1793530699 http://skillet.lifehacker.com/leftover-rice-could-make-you-v...)
> According to food scientist Donald Schaffner of Rutgers University, some restaurants “cook up a large batch of rice, hold it at room temperature all day,” and then take portions from the batch as needed. “Because Bacillus makes a heat stable toxin,” he explained “this is not a best practice, and has led to outbreaks in the past.”
That doesn't sound like something you would do in home cooking, so if the large number of food poisoning cases come from restaurants doing that, they may not be a good guide to the "absolute" danger from rice.
- learc83 9y agoLots of outbreaks come from home cooks making a big batch of rice and then saving a portion to make fried rice the next day. If it's a large portion of rice, and you don't spread it out to allow it to cool, the temperature of the rice will stay in the danger zone for hours--even in a refrigerator.