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 etc. are not only harmful by themselves.
Some also excrete stuff that is toxic as well and doesn’t get killed or rendered harnless by being cooked.
Basically poison that can resist heat.
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