I’m talking things where harmful bacteria grows on it if you leave it out too long. Like, I’m apparently not supposed to eat leftover rice that’s been left out too long cause bacteria grows on it. If I were to heat up the rice enough, wouldn’t that kill the bacteria?
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> If I were to heat up the rice enough, wouldn’t that kill the bacteria?
You can, heating food up to sufficiently high temperature for long enough will definitely kill all the bacteria.
However, that doesn’t make spoiled food safe to eat. Food spoils because the bacteria eats the food and poops out poisonous wastes. Those poisons are still poisons even when heated. They are just hot poison. Cooking it isn’t going to turn the poison back into food. You will just be eating dead bacteria and poison.
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