Is there any path to saving my soup?

[Anonymous]

I spent all yesterday afternoon making a big pot of turkey soup. I left it to cool before freezing and forgot about it and it was left out all night <cries>. Is boiling for twenty minutes an option? It won't hurt the soup like some other types.

I'm so sad

[Anonymous]

It's ok to just let it go

[Anonymous]

Cooked turkey soup. Boil it again with rosemary and turmeric.

[Anonymous]

It’s probably fine. Does it taste or smell funny? People in other cultures leave food out overnight all the time, you just reheat well the next day and it’s good to go. I’ve left cooked meat out at night and ate it the next day and was fine.

[Anonymous]

There is enough salt to preserve it over night. Just bring it to a rolling boil for 1 min.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't eat it and I'm pretty laissez faire about food safety.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I spent all yesterday afternoon making a big pot of turkey soup. I left it to cool before freezing and forgot about it and it was left out all night <cries>. Is boiling for twenty minutes an option? It won't hurt the soup like some other types.

I'm so sad

Sorry this happened after all the work. I'd toss it since there could be bacteria and heat resistant toxins. If you wouldn't eat the turkey left out for 10 hours pre putting it in the soup then don't eat the soup. I'm old and parents/aunts/grandparents used to throw stuff like that away. Some would leave soup simmering for mega hours but scrap stuff off direct heat for hours..

https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/food-technology/bacterial-food-poisoning/

[Anonymous]

I am a big proponent of the idea, I think by Mark Bitman (not sure but it was in the Times I think) that as long as you bring to a boil you can leave it out ad infinitum.

Unfortunately I have gotten really sick several times from this "method." It's too late, OP. The damage has been done. Buy yourself a turkey on sale and start over.

[Anonymous]

If it was brought to a boil then left to cool without removing the cover and it sat there overnight untouched, it's fine as long as the cover stayed unmoved.

If the cover had been removed, well, that introduces airborne matter to the soup. Even then, one night left out on a winter day may be fine. If on a warm summer day, I'd be suspect.

When i was in college, we'd regularly stay up deep into the night while working in studio. We would leave the cream for the coffee outside on the window sill. The outdoors was our fridge in fall/winter/spring.