Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jan 14, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Spencer Cheng wrote: > > On Jan 14, 2010, at 10:07, Steve Barbour wrote: >> as they say... B. cereus (Bacillus cereus)... rice is a major player, >> ways to get it, ways to avoid it....cook it hot enough, eat it, don't >> store it, don't reuse it.... > [...] >> http://www.nzfsa.govt.nz/consumers/food-safety-topics/foodborne-illnesses/safe-cooling-of-cooked-rice/index.htm > > Interesting. I have eaten a lot of rice. Pretty well all of it cooked in > an electric rice cooker (before the keep warm feature) and plenty of > leftover rice cooled to room temperature and kept in the fridge for > several days for making fried rice. Never experienced these symptoms. Must > have gotten lucky I guess. I never head of this kind of food contamination > amongst all my Chinese relatives and friends. fascinating, luck may have played a part, but likely it something about the cooking temerature and the specifics of the storage conditions Spencer... as always the devil is in the details...There doesn't seem to be any known way of evolving human resistance...via antibodies etc...just checked. The disease is due to several toxins made by B. cereus... http://www.nzfsa.govt.nz/science/data-sheets/bacillus-cereus.pdf I'd love to know more, Steve > > To throw out left over rice is to waste food. It's just not done. > > George, I like Tiger brand. It's what we use at home. The same one for the > last 15 years. For 2 people, a 5 cup model is plenty big. Features? Turns > on manually and turns off automatically when done. Nothing else really > matter. > > Regards, > Spencer > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information