Category "food-safety"

Is shime saba safe for 2 days only?

I have read various recipes for making shime saba, the pickled mackerel commonly found in sushi restaurants. All of these recipes require starting with a fresh

Marinade sauce bottle left open for longer than recommended - safe to use?

I have a marinade bottle from Nandos, it was opened and then kept in a cupboard for about 6 months. Is it safe to use? I can't find any information of what co

How important is drying hands for sanitation?

Several sites describing how to wash your hands list drying as the last step. Some say you can use a clean towel or air dry them. I've been curious about somet

Food accidentally left unrefrigerated for up to 10 days -- what needs to be thrown away?

We have a small, rarely-used auxiliary fridge (dorm-room size) in a storage room. Last week as part of preparing for Passover we took nearly everything from ou

Baked food and Bacilus Cereus

Is there a difference between baked and cooked food? As I know cooked food has to be in fridge within 2 hours after the preparation to avoid creating appropria

Are Pull N Pak plastic bags appropriate for storing raw or cooked meat in freezer snd vegetables in fridge?

Pull-n-Pak plastic bags are freely available in supermarkets at produce and meat sections. When I buy a package of 12 drumsticks or a jar of chicken livers, I

Can raw chicken share a top loading cooler next to RTE food like cheese and also Raw Ground Beef?

The picture is of a top loading cooler ( freezer. Heh..) ground beef on the right. Raw chicken in the middle and RTE cheese on the left

Can melted butter with food debris sit out at near room temp indefinitely? [duplicate]

There's food debris in the butter. My knowledge says that the oxygen deprived liquid gets bacteria in it and it turns into botulism same as va

How long do I have till my chili garlic sauce spoils?

First post on this exchange so I hope this is appropriate! Anyway, I don't cook much, so I made something simple following this video: https://www.youtube.com

Raw Salmon on a green cutting ( RTE ) board [duplicate]

Is this legit ok? My bosses tell me it doesn't matter because the board is going to get washed, when I say there's colors because the dish mac

"Universal" aka "Bristle" Knife Blocks: Blade Damage and Hygiene

Does anyone have any experiences of /advice about "universal" knife blocks, i.e. blocks that hold the knives in place with a dense bunch of plastic bristles ins

Can household dish soaps, stored diluted, breed dangerous bacteria?

Keeping some of your dish soap in a spare bottle pre-mixed with water, ready to apply to rags, paper towels or sponges, seems practical to quickly clean up smal

Should I drink pasteurized milk that has a yellowish colour?

I somehow found a packet of "full cream" pasteurized milk in the fridge. It was in the bottom section, not the freezer. (My fridge has an ice-making compartment

The container of my food is domed/bulged, is it spoiled?

This happens every now and then. It can be a package of fresh mozzarella, or a jar of marmelade, or something else. The packaging used to be flat, now it is plu

Is blowing on a frying pan unsanitary?

Does this look sanitary to you? I think if I wanted to put out a flame I'd use a pan lid.

How much time does it take to boil salmon?

Most recipes for salmon soup say that you cook it in just 5-10 minutes. If that were beef or pork, I would boil it for hours. Then why do they say such a short

Peanut oil with maybe some residue of raw egg

I poured too much oil into the measuring cup, so I poured some back into the bottle. However, the measuring cup was used for eggs before measuring the oil. I

Fried egg safety

I was cooking fried eggs today. 3.5 minutes on medium heat for both sides, the eggs were solid and yolk had been broken in with the whites, everything appeared

Is it possible for a foreign object to be embedded in a piece of pork?

A couple of days ago I made a sweet and sour pork dish, and had some leftovers for lunch today. While chewing I noticed something hard. When I took it out of my

mixed egg and bicarbonate of soda

I was half way through making a batch of peanut butter cookies when my mixer blew up - not a happy camper. As I had already mixed my eggs and bicarbonate of so