Steak out overnight question?

[Timber II]

A buddy of mine cook some steaks last night and then had to rush off and do something else and the steak sat out all night. He cooked them, medium rare. I’m thinking they’re probably not good. What do you say?

 

[normanaj]

That would be a no for me.

 

[chopsaw]

Once it hits 41 degrees you have 2 hours to get it cooked or past 140 or cooled back down below 40 .
I know most don't cook steaks past 140 , just the rule in general . That's why I say " cooked " in this situation .

 

[Timber II]

Thanks Gents for the quick response. Hopefully this will convince him!

 

[DougE]

Tough call. I have, more than once, left cooked meat on the counter overnight by accident and just chucked it in the fridge when I found it the next morning.

I know it is breaking food safety rules, and don't recommend anyone do it.

 

[SmokinEdge]

It’s whole muscle that’s been cooked at Least on the outside, the inside is considered sterile and the outside was exposed to hotter than 140 if it was grilled. Personally I wouldn’t get to worked up about it. Food safety is no joke and especially not for older folks with compromised immune systems, so nothing wrong with being on the safer side.

Funny story,
when I was growing up we had a neighbor down the road that were friends of the family and I played with their kids. Anyway the mother was a Spanish gal and had her ways in the kitchen. Fantastic cook she was. One thing she made fairly often was good ole’ fried chicken. Best fried chicken I’ve ever eaten. She cut up 2 whole birds when she made it so there was always leftovers. Us kids snacked on that once a week or so, she made it weekly, leftover it was so delicious.

Thing about this story is that she stored the leftover fried chicken in the off oven. So it was always room temp. I remember my Dad asking her why in the oven and not in the fridge, she said “ The oven is sanitized and so was the fried chicken “ at any rate we ate her chicken for over a decade and nobody ever got sick.

 

[DRKsmoking]

The oven is sanitized and so was the fried chicken “ at any rate we ate her chicken for over a decade and nobody ever got sick.

Good story, ha ha

And no one got sick,
and we ate dirt as kids also, on the veggies ( carrots and radishes etc ) we stole from gardens, just wiped off on our jeans as we ran away,
old hot dogs that were forgotten on the old BBQ and found the next day

Never got sick that I remember, but I am a little weird now, maybe because of all the bad things I ate back then, lol

David

 

[DougE]

“ The oven is sanitized and so was the fried chicken “ at any rate we ate her chicken for over a decade and nobody ever got sick.

Not sure I'd push the envelope quite that far but never got sick from any cooked meat left out overnight.

 

[chopsaw]

My bad on the fact that it was cooked and left out . I thought it was raw .
That being said I wouldn't feed it to anyone .
A couple weeks ago I did a whole chicken . We had a meal from it , and I always leave plenty of meat on the carcass to pick for tacos or enchiladas .
It was left out overnight . I put it in the fridge when I found it .
I actually had a sandwich from it with no issues , but I would never serve that to someone .
It made the trash .

 

[DougE]

My bad on the fact that it was cooked and left out . I thought it was raw .
That being said I wouldn't feed it to anyone .

I wouldn't feed it to anyone else, either but I wouldn't hesitate to eat it myself.

 

[Brokenhandle]

Well whatever is decided... before it's thrown out... might make for some tasty dog snacks!

Ryan

 

[pc farmer]

I have ate pizza at room temperature for a week. Ate cooked meats left out over night. I don't recommend it to anyone. I feel I drink enough bourbon that it saves me from food poisoning..

 

[DougE]

I have ate pizza at room temperature for a week. Ate cooked meats left out over night. I don't recommend it to anyone. I feel I drink enough bourbon that it saves me from food poisoning..

That's the spirit (pun intended!).

 

[Hijack73]

I was once kept overnight at a hospital for food poisoning and have had several other rounds where I kinda was wishing the Lord would just go ahead and call me home, and I still do not so brilliant stuff like this.

I'm terrible about it with smoked meats. I can't tell you how many dozens of times I've left parts of a brisket in the oven (not holding or resting) for many many hours. I draw the line though where the food isn't fairly well done or made from ground beef.

I left a jar of mayo out for about 6 hours a couple of weeks ago. I know that mayo was still fine, it's chocked full of preservatives, and I looked at it for a good hard minute before I tossed it. Damn near new jar too. Did the same thing with a big tub of sour cream not 2 or 3 days later. That one was easy - it was pretty goopy.