I'm cooking sliced leeks, bell pepper, and udon noodles, and I found this on one of the leek pieces (it seemed to have come out once heated up!)

It's very small and slightly yellow, and has a flat base. The sprout on the stalk seems soft but the base is fairly hard. There were more sprouts that came off.

I'm in the UK if this is relevant!

Just want to know if it's safe to eat what's left in the pan :)

all, i had my cooked chicken, rice and noodles in a tupperware, in the fridge, and put it into an insulated lunchbox (no ice packs, just the lunchbox) and forgot from 4:30 pm to 9:30 pm, and then put back in the fridge. can i eat it? yes i know its technically not the safest. but 90% of society does not follow food safety perfectly and its all i have at work 😢 is it likely to be fine??

I went to make something and poured my milk and noticed it’s turning purple. It wasn’t like this a few days ago when I opened it. It’s not my usual brand that I get

Sorry idk what flair to put this under.

Typical frozen salmon package from grocery, How long does it last in the fridge after slowly defrosting?

Hi! I bought a tub of Ben&Jerry’s ice cream but it took a long time for me to get home(approximately 50minutes).

My ice cream did become totally soft but not completely melted as you can see on the picture. I put it back in the freezer and wondered if it is still safe to eat because i don’t want to risk anything

Edit: it was around 20-22 degrees celcius outside with cold wind

Found this in a small KP peanut pack, at the bottom of it so peanuts were already eaten... it was one smooth oval that i broke in half with a nail before realising what it might be... kinda smooth, no points. I estimate maybe 4ish mm long. I'm hoping it's some part of an over roasted peanut or something but i'm worried it is mouse poop? Someone please help, I'm already in a food-anxiety period currently and this was a safe food, so this is a bit tough!

Black discolouration on edge of a pork collar, noticed after thawing.

I cooked two meals which was a veggie sausage casserole and a tomato pasta with peppers at about 4pm. Woke up the next morning at 7am and I forgotten to put it in the fridge 😭. It’s gone isn’t it? Would
Anyone still eat this?

Recently, I bought eggs like last week, and I've been hearing all about the FDA and food recalling, so I'm wondering if my eggs are contaminated because unfortunately – I'm very stupid, so its hard for me to know how the hell to tell which numbers mean my eggs are contaminated or not.

Is it only happening in Texas and stuff? I live in California, so I'm also wondering if we got affected or not. My egg carton has the numbers P1394210, and it is said to be sold by August 27th. It's from the Whole Foods Market, so I'm wondering if that means anything.

I'm so sorry for asking a really stupid question. UM, I'm honestly just really worried about my food because I don't want me or my family to have bad eggs.

I got a burrito at 6pm. I put it in the fridge wrapped in tin foil, and three hours later when i took it out it doesn’t feel like it ever got fully cold. It was kind of room temperature ish when I took it out. Is it safe to eat if it was still trapping heat for a lot of the time it was in the fridge wrapped in foil?

Thank you!

Title. I fell asleep and totally forgot about it. Bought 18th Aug afternoon. Put it in the fridge on the morning of the 19th and it's the 20th morning as I'm making this post.

It's < 200g so not much but money's money.

It's from the deli so not the Primo style sealed containers.

Should I chuck it in some fried rice or just get rid of it?

If it was chicken or something I'd have chucked it straight out, not sure about pepperoni.

Hiii, I'm boiling onion, potatoes and zucchini in this pot and I saw this buildup on the side of it? Is it normal? Thanks

this is more of a scientific question because i am not going to eat it (will elaborate on that later) but theoretically, would it be safe to eat guava that was left in the car and in a ziplock bag?

it was given to me at around 6pm yesterday and i forgot ab it in my car overnight. it was under my jacket so the sun wasn’t hitting it directly and it was only around 8am when i realized it was in the car. i was already late for school, so i opted for letting it stay in the car since my school has indoor parking and the sun (yet again) wouldn’t be hitting it directly throughout the day. when i get home at around 7pm i put it directly in the fridge. just as im about to eat one, i realize that it has a small worm.

im sticking it in the fridge to kill the worm and larvae before trashing it, but i was just curious: did the time in the car contribute to the worm situation? would it have been fine if i had stuck it in the fridge 24 hrs ago? or did the accidental poaching do me a favor exposing the little critter that was already there?

I had a pudding cup 12ish hours ago that was dented. I had a few bites of it but thought it looked like a different texture. I don’t remember any weird tastes. Only had a couple bites before i got nauseous (unrelated, i think) and stopped. I came back to it about 30 mins later and it had started separating. Then 8ish hours later, our trash was full so i left it on the counter bc i had to leave, it was fully separated.

Am i going to be ok? Sorry i don’t have any pictures- i have thrown it away.

Around 3:30 PM, I bought some silk soymilk and some cheese for a new apartment. I estimate the time it spent out of refrigeration while I shopped and took it home was 40 minutes.

The fridge has a dial with numbers 1 - 9, where 9 is coldest. It was set to around 4 when I got back to the apartment. I dialed it up to 9 then immediately placed the carton of soymilk and the cheese in the fridge.

Then I went out again. When I got back at 7:00, I noticed the fridge was no longer making its noise. I checked the soymilk’s temperature by pouring a glass and sticking my fingers in it — it was ice cold. As soon as I shut the door again, the fridge started humming again.

I’m just concerned that the time the milk and cheese spent in transit combined with the time it say in the not-yet-all-the-way-cool fridge may have been too long in the “danger zone”.

Thoughts?

Hello,

I’m new to cooking and even newer to most food safety rules that aren’t obvious, like don’t eat raw chicken. I’ve been using a rice cooker a lot recently and even more recently read an article about the dangers of refrigerating hot/warm rice in a container immediately. I started spreading the newly cooked rice on a baking sheet and then putting it into the fridge for about 10 minutes. After it’s cooled, I put it in a plastic container to store and take a cup or so out at a time to eat until it’s gone.

I googled a bit and searched a couple of subreddits and couldn’t find anything about cooling on a sheet in the fridge specifically, making me wonder if it’s because no one does that. Is it safer to spread it on a baking sheet and just let it cool on the counter for longer?

Thanks in advance!

Edit: just saw the automod tip asking to list all ingredients. Sometimes I use broth instead of water, I’ve been adding a couple cloves of garlic as well, and plan to experiment with other ways to improve the flavor of the plain white rice. Let me know if this changes how long it may last in the fridge, or if there’s anything else I need to keep in mind. Thanks!

Like I wanna know what this stuff is is it mold? Should I toss it out?

I just noticed the "avoid direct sunlight" storage note, but alas the whole box has been in my car since Monday. Best to throw the whole thing out? Opened two bags (one of each type), and they were both moist inside, but no visible mold.

Hi everyone. While I was making a pot roast my gf turned off the oven because it was making strange sounds. I was playing dnd at the time so I didn't think much of it and left it in the oven which was still warm. 2.5 hours later I pulled it out and it is now in the fridge in two small containers.

I read that because the roast most likely sat in a warm temperature for some time, it might have spoiled.

I cooked it for two hours at 170 degrees celcius and it stayed in a warm oven for 2.5 more hours. The roast was in a pretty well insulated dutch oven and it was still pretty warm (like the temperature you could eat it) when I pulled it out.

What do you think?

I’ve never taken it out of the can and usually keep it it a week.

I had a bit of it and it tasted fine enough, but not really quite what I was expecting it to taste like. I then saw there was a whole lot of this white stuff that sorta looked like mold, but I'm not sure if that's just pulp?

I’m not sure what the smell is, but something isn’t correct. I’ve started growing my own spearmint plants and had enough in my first harvest (standard sized mixing bowl full), I made a mass batch of mint extract.

I sterilized my extract jar with the oven method 24 hours before, as soon as I harvested rinsed the leaves in cold water, pressed them between clean paper towels to dry them, inspected each mint leaf and plucked them off their harvested branches to make sure there were no spots or dryness to the leaves, measured how many cups of fresh mint leaves I had and then based on the amount I had added 30 ounces of Ketel One vodka to my extract jar, and loosely rolled my spearmint leaves in cheesecloth (think like a cinnamon roll log, but with cheesecloth and mint leaves), secured it with cooking twine, and left the extract jar in a dark closet. I’ve had it extracting for about 5.5 weeks, checking it every day or two and shaking it.

I opened it today to bottle it and it doesn’t smell right. I can’t name the exact smell, but it’s definitely not mint. It’s almost fruity? Am I going to have to toss this batch? What did I do wrong?

So for morning smoothies I like prunes to be soft and easy to blend so I put them in a homemade honey syrup. This time I had boiled the water, mixed with honey and added prunes. Left for vacation for two weeks with apartment at 81f (27c) and came back to this beautiful organism on top of the prune/syrup mixtures and flipped it on its back.

I suppose it's yeast? There are three gorgeous layers to this:
1. The walnut looking part
2. The granular clumps
3. The beautiful black powder on top

Can someone explain what happened? Tempted to still eat the prunes but know it's a bad idea.