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Well it finally happened to me, last Sat. I laid a nice rack of San Louie ribs on the cupboard by the coffee pot (last thing I do before bed) and would have seen the ribs, but I made coffee early while making supper.
Long story short (says nobody ever) I went to bed through the living room instead of the kitchen.
Got up Sunday morning and was fixin to get a cup of joe and there sits the ribs sealed up tight in the cryovac and temped at 57*. I threw them in the fridge and considered actions. Told the wife guess we aren't having ribs tonight and she says "they should be OK"....
I could have come here and had the old 50-50 pitch 'em, cook 'em drama but decided to just before rubbing I put on a pot of water to boil. Took it out of the package with absolutely no smell and gave it a boiling water bath and dried and seasoned for the grill. The boiling water should have killed any cooties on the surface and off we'd go.
Cook went off as expected, smelled and tasted great. Made sure it went a little long to hit 205* or so.
All in all no after affects, I did seem to have an abnormal amount of real distasteful gas overnight, so just pulled the sheets up over the Mrs. head and chuckled to myself!
So here's the tale, use your childhood experiences (how much dirt did you eat) use your adult cooking and food knowledge and make an informed decision. Or better yet don't leave your meat hanging out overnight.
Ed
By no means do I intend to guarantee boiling water and going for it is sound advice for you all.
Long story short (says nobody ever) I went to bed through the living room instead of the kitchen.
Got up Sunday morning and was fixin to get a cup of joe and there sits the ribs sealed up tight in the cryovac and temped at 57*. I threw them in the fridge and considered actions. Told the wife guess we aren't having ribs tonight and she says "they should be OK"....
I could have come here and had the old 50-50 pitch 'em, cook 'em drama but decided to just before rubbing I put on a pot of water to boil. Took it out of the package with absolutely no smell and gave it a boiling water bath and dried and seasoned for the grill. The boiling water should have killed any cooties on the surface and off we'd go.
Cook went off as expected, smelled and tasted great. Made sure it went a little long to hit 205* or so.
All in all no after affects, I did seem to have an abnormal amount of real distasteful gas overnight, so just pulled the sheets up over the Mrs. head and chuckled to myself!
So here's the tale, use your childhood experiences (how much dirt did you eat) use your adult cooking and food knowledge and make an informed decision. Or better yet don't leave your meat hanging out overnight.
Ed
By no means do I intend to guarantee boiling water and going for it is sound advice for you all.