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20-Year-Old Dies From 'Fried Rice Syndrome' After Eating Leftover Pasta (www.iheart.com)

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The bacteria is best known for causing a type of food poisoning called "Fried Rice Syndrome," since rice is sometimes cooked and left to cool at room temperature for a few hours. During that time, the bacteria can contaminate it and grow. B. cereus is especially dangerous because it produces a toxin in rice and other starchy foods that is heat resistant and may not die when the food it infects is cooked.

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Unfortunately, that was the case for a 20-year-old student, who passed away after eating five-day-old pasta.

His story was described in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology a few years back, but has since resurfaced due to some YouTube videos and Reddit posts. According to article, every Sunday the student would make his meals for the entire week so he wouldn't need to deal with making it on the weekdays. One Sunday, he cooked up some spaghetti, then put it in Tupperware containers so that days later, he could just add some sauce to it, reheat it and enjoy it.

However, he didn't store the pasta in the fridge, rather he left it out on the counter. After five days of the food sitting out at room temperature, he heated some up and ate it. While he noticed an odd taste to the food, he figured it was just due to the new tomato sauce he added to it.

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[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Shoot I'll leave rice on the counter all day sometimes... I should stop doing that.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I had a Vietnamese roommate who used his rice cooker so that he made a bunch if rice and always when he wanted more he just clicked the cooker on to reheat it. And it took him sometimes like five days to eat it.

Five days of rice sitting in room temperature and occasionally being heated. Mental. That's not food prep that's a science experiment.

Dude was also often opinion that meat only gets better when it starts to smell a little in the fridge and you'll just pour a lot of soy sauce on it and down it goes with the forever rice.

Apart from being a biowaste eating lunatic he was a good roommate.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Chubbyemu on YouTube. Watching his videos will change your approach to food safety as well as a lot of the ordinary things we often do or think about doing that are, in fact, extremely dangerous.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Lol I'm interested now, but the name made me think the channel was about a self-deprecating overweight fan of emulators...or large flightless birds, now that I think about it.

[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I leave mine in the rice cooker but no more than a day. It's starts to get slimy after that and clearly inedible.