I would not eat Green Eggs and Ham.
I don’t think it’s too hazardous.
I wonder if Big Pasta is behind all this day old rice is dangerous propoganda.
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Dogs also like cooked rice.
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Another +1 for the fried rice option. And rice does freeze well. One Indian restaurant I frequent gives me a lifetime supply of rice every time I order from them so I freeze it for future dishes - usually fried rice.
Also in stuffed peppers. Mix some of the cooked rice with ground beef then stuff peppers with the mixture.
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Have it for breakfast the next couple of days with a bit of butter added. Also, MH’s cabbage and rice soup is quite good.
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Throw a fried egg on top while yer at it.
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I was going to mention this too but hesitated for some reason. 2 out of 2 dogs who have lived with us have been big fans of cooked rice. Both to the extent that it is a Day of Supreme Joy when we pick up Chinese takeout, because they knew/know we will share a bit of the plain rice.
My vet says that including grain is a dog’s diet is important for their heart health. So there’s that too.
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I make egg rice with leftover takeout rice.
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Or a pork chop, plus some pork rinds and fish sauce!
Me already bbq’ing at 7 in the morning. It’s good when a place serves/cooks “Binh Dan” style (seen on the sign between the bbq and blowing fan. “Commoners’ food”, cheap and good/cheerful (gut und günstig/preiswert).
My 7 o’clock pavement breakfast because I had to catch a cramped van to the capital. I tend to go overboard with the fish sauce in Vietnam. Notice my coffee is not contaminated with condense milk. Should be black and strong.
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Yes, my dogs love it.
A word of caution; it too great amounts it causes constipation.
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Why should we take your advice on food safety over that of trained scientists?
No, but perhaps it should be viewed with some proportion in mind. The US CDC estimates ~ 55 million people in the US suffer food poisoning of some sort or the other each year.
It’s estimated that some 60 thousand people each year get food poisoning from bacillus cereus, which is the bacteria responsible for rice food poisoning. They don’t break this down by food type, but rice is certainly one of them.
But let’s say all 60K who get sick from B. cereus are rice cases.
The other 54,940,000 are not. Put another way, for a person in the US, the chances of getting food poisoning from something other than B. cereus are close to 1000 to 1.
Does that mean play with the Devil? No.
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I am an advocate for practicing food safety across the board.
Why should we trust anything we read on the Internet?
We should trust information from reputable sources like scientists with expertise in the field.
What if I am a food scientist?
Are you, and if so do you have expertise in food bourne illness?
As mentioned, fried rice is a great way to use up leftover rice! It’s even better than freshly cooked rice for this purpose.
There’s egg fried rice, yang chow fried rice, nasi goreng, kimchi fried rice mentioned above, beef and lettuce fried rice, takana chahan, garlic fried rice (sinangag), and more.
Re: food poisoning from 3 day old rice, just because it is possible does not make it likely. I personally would use 3 day old rice without hesitation.
since we’re posting links from the internet
https://www.foodsafety.gov/keep-food-safe/foodkeeper-app says 4-6 days in the fridge for cooked rice
https://www.bhg.com.au/how-long-does-cooked-rice-last-in-the-fridge says 4-7 days
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/does-rice-go-bad says 4 days
I think 3 days should be fine.
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Agreed. I’ve read articles and watched TV cooking shows (IIRC including Simply Ming on PBS) which explained that the cooked rice needs to dehydrate for some time in order to maintain separate grains as fried rice. I don’t recall for how long, and think some of the cooks called for air drying, others refrigerator, but all specified spreading out the cooked rice on a sheet pan.
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I have eaten leftover rice pretty much all my life, older than three days easily. And I’m from a rice-eating culture, so I don’t know a single person from said culture who would discard three-day old rice. Or from many other cultures who also eat rice as at a minimum near-daily staple. Rice is typically cooked fresh since it’s eaten regularly, but if there is any left over, it is put away and saved for another day. And that’s without getting into how I can’t think of anybody who would think of discarding something like moro (rice and beans cooked together), paella, jambalaya, etc. after a couple of days in the fridge.
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