A comedy of carnita errors, toss it or eat it?

[Anonymous]

Hi I am waffling and confused and just need someone to validate me. I THINK I’m probably ok?

Set up my pork roast in a slow cooker on high. yesterday morning at 10am. Forgot an ingredient in a hurry and one of the quarters of the roast wasn’t well submerged which I discovered at hour 5. It looked decidedly not cooked as well. Resettled everything and added the extra liquid and restarted the high slow cook. It was on high cook for ~8 hours. I realized it was hopelessly underdone and made a different dinner and put the slow cooker on low setting at 6pm. I discover at 8:30 that I did not actually hit the button to start the low slow cooker.

So I hit it then. Slow cooker then goes for 7 hours. I forgot to hit the button when I went to bed again so it likely turned off around 4:30am. The keep warm setting went for 4 hours. I came down, put it BACK on and kept it at temp for an hour. The I finally at long last put this poor concoction in the fridge.

It now looks great. Who knows if it is mushy after that long. But I am food safety paranoid.

[Anonymous]

Oh my. This just wasn’t your meal, lol. I’d toss it.

[Anonymous]

I’m sorry to say that you are probably safer to toss it. It sounds like it did sit for a while at more than one point. I know it’s frustrating, but it’s just not worth the risk.

[Anonymous]

It is totally fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh my. This just wasn’t your meal, lol. I’d toss it.

Lol. I'd probably toss it too and I am always on here like, "it's FINE!" I don't like the journey of this dish ha.

[Anonymous]

15 hours highat of total cooking? It's done. Pitch it.

[Anonymous]

Zap it for 1 min.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh my. This just wasn’t your meal, lol. I’d toss it.

Lol. I'd probably toss it too and I am always on here like, "it's FINE!" I don't like the journey of this dish ha.

At the time of the OP it was 28 hours form the start of the cooking. A roast left on the counter for that long would probably be fine, This was cooked. you people are nuts.

[Anonymous]

If you're ok with explosive diarrhea, go for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh my. This just wasn’t your meal, lol. I’d toss it.

Lol. I'd probably toss it too and I am always on here like, "it's FINE!" I don't like the journey of this dish ha.

At the time of the OP it was 28 hours form the start of the cooking. A roast left on the counter for that long would probably be fine, This was cooked. you people are nuts.

Notably it had also been in the fridge since 10:30! I think adding it all up it was 'cooking' for 16 of the 23.5 hours. It was being sustained hot for 5 and it was left unattended for 2.5. I am most worried obviously about the sustained hot period but also the original 6 hours of cooking where part of the roast was not fully submerged in liquid (although was fully contained in the crock pot of course!).

Yes clearly this was really not my meal! A lot of things came together to distract me at the right times to make this a real kerfuffle. This is not like me at all!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Zap it for 1 min.

It is going to go under the broiler if I use it!

[Anonymous]

Would put in baked casseroles, hash, soup and the like so it is recooked

[Anonymous]

Ugh, I get it but it did spend a lot of time in the bad zone. I guess if you're willing to make yourself the guinea pig? But if you have any sensitivities I wouldn't. And don't feed this to anyone more vulnerable or unaware.

[Anonymous]

I was raised with the motto, “When in doubt, dump.” I think with that many reasons to doubt, I’d dump.

[Anonymous]

I don't usually throw things out but this would go in the trash at my house. At worst, it will make you sick, at best, it's overcooked into oblivion. I've read pork can make you really sick under the right circumstances so I'd err on the side of caution here.