If I cook up some food and decide to keep it to reheat later or tomorrow, why is it important where I store it? Eg it needs to be refrigerated. I get that bacteria will grow in the danger zones – so room temperature means bacteria will grow. But if I’m heating the food up doesn’t that kill the bacteria that would grow anyway? So why does it matter?
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Bacteria can be mostly easily be dealt with… as you said heating.
But when bacteria grows, it eats, when it eats, it poops… literally… and those byproducts are not that easily be cleaned out by just heating.
So your best approach is prevention. Don’t let bacteria poop on your food.
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