They also chewed through said bag of rice, but only touched a small part of the surface of the inside.
To be clear, the bag of rice is raw rice.
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Yes. Ready to be disgusted? Quite a bit of the food we eat already has mouse crap in it. Rice comes out of a field, so it’s not exactly hermetically sealed to begin with. After that it was probably kept in a big warehouse, in a burlap sack. Your house mouse probably isn’t the first animal to share your next meal.
[https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/04/health/insect-rodent-filth-in-food-wellness/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/04/health/insect-rodent-filth-in-food-wellness/index.html)
mice primarily carry salmonella which is killed by cooking something at 150 degrees for 10 minutes or so. A rice cooker gets up to 200 degrees usually, so even in a rice cooker, you’re probably ok.
I’m not any kind of food scientist – just a mom who knows how much it hurts to waste food when you’re struggling – so take my advice with a grain of salt… pun intended.
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