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Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

@shoesnbags Rice and red beans.....oh, one of my favorite foods. Yumm. I could eat that everyday.

sabatini · ‎06-29-2015

@Carmie is right about rice becoming dangerous after it's cooked. When there've been food poisonings from Asian restaurants, it's the rice that's usually the culprit!

Cooked veg is another prime candidate for food poisonings, and a foil-wrapped baked potato can be positively deadly.

It's all about time and temperature: how long the foods were left out or held at unsafe temperatures.

I was in the restaurant world for many years, so had to be ServeSafe Certified, & recall being shocked when 1st learning about the toxins which can be created in such simple, everyday things.

But to speak to your question, @Flatbush, I got sick of dealing with leftover rice, so buy the already prepared white sticky rice in individual portions from Costco. Nuke it for 90 seconds and voila! Just enough.

Muddling through...

sunshine45 · ‎03-09-2010

lock n lock container.

when reheating, add a few sprinkles of water and a pat or two of butter.

moist and delicious and ready for the other leftovers.

i sometimes also use leftover rice to make a pot of chicken and rice soup (to freeze) OR a beef burrito soup. leftover rice is also excellent for creating chicken fried rice, shrimp fried rice, and rice pudding.

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LavernLuvsShoes · ‎07-13-2021

QUOTE: You can get food poisoning from rice if not handled properly. Rice contains a lot of bacteria...

Yikes!

I've been eating rice all my life, and this is the first time I've ever heard this - I've cooked, eaten, and stored rice (in glass and plastic containers) in the refrigerator for years, and never experienced any problems.

Renata22 · ‎03-16-2010

@shoesnbags You must be here in Louisiana. Hi!

I read this some time ago, also. I had never been really careful with rice. It would stay out on the stove sometimes all day. No body ever got sick, as far as we know. I'm more careful now, just in case.

kate2357 · ‎02-26-2012

I have never really thought about leftover cold rice getting hard. I typically just reheat and it seems to taste just fine.

I am a food safety freak and don't keep food out at room temp for very long. One of my pet peeves is restaurant food not served at proper temp. I will send back or not eat. I've had food poisoning more than once and it is not fun.

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shoesnbags · ‎03-10-2010

@Renata22 wrote:
@shoesnbags You must be here in Louisiana. Hi!

I read this some time ago, also. I had never been really careful with rice. It would stay out on the stove sometimes all day. No body ever got sick, as far as we know. I'm more careful now, just in case.

Hi @Renata22 ! Yes, I'm in the New Orleans metro area.

Like you, I never thought of rice as something to be careful with.

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depglass · ‎03-10-2010

Wow. I guess I'm lucky that we are not dead. I've treated cooked rice like bread, meaning I've left it out and not bothered to refrigerate it if it will be eaten soon.

Renata22 · ‎03-16-2010

@depglass Same here. We always say our rice didn't read those rules so it didn't know to go bad.

Renata22 · ‎03-16-2010

@shoesnbags We are in southwest La. We cook a pot of rice and then decide what goes with it. Always rice in the fridge or cooking. The only time I ever remember having any trouble with rice was one time when we rewarmed some. It was all slimy and gooey. Yuck! But that wasn't even our rice, it was a takeout dish. You never know how it was handled.

Have a nice day and stay cool!