Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have a feeling we have more fun with food in Louisiana than you guys in California do. On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/ Natchitoches, Louisiana (+31.754164,-093.099080) USA