Left bag of groceries (meat) on counter 1.5 hours

[Anonymous]

I put the refrigerated groceries away (so I thought) and the rest set out 1.5 hours. Package of fresh chicken tenders, fresh bacon and fresh ground pork sausage all left out at room temperature. Still felt a little cool. OK to use, or should I cut my losses and throw out?

[Anonymous]

Guys? Please help!

[Anonymous]

How long total? As in, not just at your house but the drive from the store, etc.? Did you stop 3 places after the grocery store but before you got home?

In a nutshell, how long from the time you pulled it out of the refrigerator at the store until you put it in the fridge at your house?

[Anonymous]

It's fine.

[Anonymous]

It’s fine but I’d either put it into the freezer or cook it right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How long total? As in, not just at your house but the drive from the store, etc.? Did you stop 3 places after the grocery store but before you got home?

In a nutshell, how long from the time you pulled it out of the refrigerator at the store until you put it in the fridge at your house?

Total time, 1.5 hours plus 8 minutes drive from store.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How long total? As in, not just at your house but the drive from the store, etc.? Did you stop 3 places after the grocery store but before you got home?

In a nutshell, how long from the time you pulled it out of the refrigerator at the store until you put it in the fridge at your house?

Total time, 1.5 hours plus 8 minutes drive from store.

I also agree you are fine then.

[Anonymous]

1.5 hrs is nothing I wouldn’t think twice.

[Anonymous]

If it was still cool to the touch, I agree it's fine.

If I had a high risk family member, or a tendency to get sick from food, I would probably cook the sausage today, because it's got a lot of surface area so easier to become a food safety problem, and freeze the tenders. The bacon will definitely keep.

[Anonymous]

The bacon is fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I put the refrigerated groceries away (so I thought) and the rest set out 1.5 hours. Package of fresh chicken tenders, fresh bacon and fresh ground pork sausage all left out at room temperature. Still felt a little cool. OK to use, or should I cut my losses and throw out?

Those foods already have soo many chemicals and preservatives in them that you could probably have left them over overnight and they'd still be fine for several days after.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1.5 hrs is nothing I wouldn’t think twice.

+1 Unquestionably I would keep all of these.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I put the refrigerated groceries away (so I thought) and the rest set out 1.5 hours. Package of fresh chicken tenders, fresh bacon and fresh ground pork sausage all left out at room temperature. Still felt a little cool. OK to use, or should I cut my losses and throw out?

Those foods already have soo many chemicals and preservatives in them that you could probably have left them over overnight and they'd still be fine for several days after.

The bacon and sausage are probably salty enough to survive. Not sure about chicken tenders.

[Anonymous]

I would cook the sausage and the chicken. Freezing the raw chicken then thawing ...um. Kill off the germs by cooking then use later.

[Anonymous]

How do you function in life if you need to ask this?