Anonymous
Post 05/27/2025 08:45     Subject: Left bag of groceries (meat) on counter 1.5 hours

How do you function in life if you need to ask this?
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2025 20:33     Subject: Left bag of groceries (meat) on counter 1.5 hours

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
Post 05/26/2025 20:31     Subject: Left bag of groceries (meat) on counter 1.5 hours

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
Post 05/26/2025 19:23     Subject: Left bag of groceries (meat) on counter 1.5 hours

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

+1 Unquestionably I would keep all of these.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2025 19:20     Subject: Left bag of groceries (meat) on counter 1.5 hours

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
Post 05/26/2025 19:16     Subject: Left bag of groceries (meat) on counter 1.5 hours

The bacon is fine.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2025 19:04     Subject: Left bag of groceries (meat) on counter 1.5 hours

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
Post 05/26/2025 18:58     Subject: Left bag of groceries (meat) on counter 1.5 hours

1.5 hrs is nothing I wouldn’t think twice.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2025 18:41     Subject: Left bag of groceries (meat) on counter 1.5 hours

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
Post 05/26/2025 18:39     Subject: Left bag of groceries (meat) on counter 1.5 hours

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
Post 05/26/2025 18:34     Subject: Left bag of groceries (meat) on counter 1.5 hours

It’s fine but I’d either put it into the freezer or cook it right now.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2025 18:33     Subject: Left bag of groceries (meat) on counter 1.5 hours

It's fine.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2025 18:29     Subject: Left bag of groceries (meat) on counter 1.5 hours

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
Post 05/26/2025 18:23     Subject: Left bag of groceries (meat) on counter 1.5 hours

Guys? Please help!
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2025 18:10     Subject: Left bag of groceries (meat) on counter 1.5 hours

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?