Let's use reheated rice instead of chicken. Cook rice. Chill the rice. Store it correctly. Reheat it thoroughly. Sniff it at every stage. Can you smell the b

Let's use reheated rice instead of chicken. Cook rice. Chill the rice. Store it correctly. Reheat it thoroughly. Sniff it at every stage. Can you smell the bacillus cereus, can you smell the toxins they produce? The toxins are not destroyed by heat from cooking, and this is a very common form of food poisoning. Stop telling people they can smell food poisoning. They can't. > It disingenuous to ignore the parent's very next sentence, No, because parent poster is talking about ignoring the "arbitrary" food safety dates. If you ignore the date you significantly increase the risk of food poisoning, and not all of those are fixed by thorough cooking. For many people food poisoning might be a few days of unpleasant illness, but we need to remember that it can also be a life-changing illness.