As we all know, the general rule is, that cooked meat must be refrigerated within 2 hours or so after its cooked.
However, why are foods like cheese & bacon rolls, and those little hot dog rolls you find at Asian bakeries deemed safe to eat in room temperature?
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Realistically the food left out like that is risky to eat lol. Technically if you made a cooked meat item (like those cheese/bacon rolls) you could have them out of the “danger zone” (41-135 degrees) for 4 hours before harmful bacteria/toxins start to form.
This is just a general rule meant to enforce the most food safety possible. If you ate the food after 4 hours it doesn’t mean it’s automatically dangerous to eat, it’s just way more likely to cause harm because harmful bacteria has now had favorable conditions to form.
So in a commercial setting, the health inspector would have no problem with food being kept at that temp for 4 hours, then thrown out.
But I’m gonna wager that most places who serve this type of food don’t actually do that. Given time and temperature, the harmful bacteria then create toxins, which cause the more nasty type of food poisoning. So maybe avoid them at the end of the day lol.
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