Shoestring culinary magnificence

[eck]

Yum, wow, I've been practicing a really easy tasty inexpensive curry I found online, and tonight found an African lentil dish that's just as cheap and easy and goes pretty well with it -- just in time, too, since my rice cooker still has lots of aromatic yellow rice left from Monday!

Comments

[nubianamy]

That sounds absolutely delicious. I think I must now try the whole thing.

[purplecthulhu]

Erm.... storing cooked rice can be a risky thing to do since there are some nasty bugs that grow on it, even if refrigerated. I'm sure purpletigron could give you more details from her food hygene course...

[eck]

Eep, yes, that would be good to know about. For the most part, though, I only store cooked rice for a couple of days in the rice cooker's "keep warm" setting, which keeps it pretty hot...

Vomiting bacteria

[purpletigron]

Actually, vomiting eck...

For the most part, though, I only store cooked rice for a couple of days in the rice cooker's "keep warm" setting, which keeps it pretty hot...

Noooooo... (just from an energy efficiency standpoint, but read on...) No foods, especially 'high risk' foods such as meat, dairy and rice, should be 'kept warm' for more than 2 hours. Nor should you re-heat food more than once. Bacterial populations can double every 15 minutes, and thrive at temperatures in the range 5 - 65 deg C. All food should be either very hot (> 70 deg C) or (preferably) chilled (< 5 C) if not being eaten immediately.

The particular problem with rice is Baccilus cereus which can cause projectile vomiting. You really don't want to mess with this stuff :-)

In other news... why don't you run - don't walk - to where-ever you need to go to find out exactly how and when you can register for an absentee ballot in the USA elections? I presume you're not a registered party member, and therefore can't take part in the candidate nomination process.