BARFBLOG: What is the safe temperature for reheating leftovers? - (barfblog)
May 7, 2008 – 5:19 pmThe Sydney Morning Herald asks in tomorrow’s edition (today? they’re 16 hours ahead of us), is it safe to reheat leftovers?
The story is not particularly incisive, but does cite Lydia Buchtmann from Food Standards Australia New Zealand as saying if there’s a lot of leftover food to put away — or you’re cooking in advance — it’s best to divide it into small portions to cool rather than putting large quantities of soup or a casserole into one big container. The idea is to speed up the cooling process so that bacteria have less chance to grow. This is also important with pasta and rice - foods that might seem less dodgy than others but which can harbour the sneaky Bacillus cereus that can produce a toxin, especially in foods that are cooled slowly. Because this toxin is heat-resistant, it’s not destroyed by reheating.
Buchtmann also says when reheating, they […]
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