Dangerous advice?

[Lakesailor]

Surely, Freddie Star did eat a hamster?

 

[photodog]

Surely, Freddie Star did eat a hamster?

I thought that was a misquote??

The story I heard was that the original line was that Freddie ate his ham-sandwich.... but that Kelvin misheard it in conference and no-one had the balls to correct him when he got all excited... so they just changed the copy.

 

[Thistle]

Hot food in a thermos is likely to be something you are going to eat in 3-4 hours so if it is properly cooked and the thermos clean you are unlikely to come to any harm.

I'd have thought you are much more likely to suffer if you don't wash your hands thoroughly between handling mooring lines which have been in the water and eating.

 

[Rob_Webb]

I think the only reason people don't put hot/warm food in a fridge is cos it feels 'wrong' and makes the fridge work harder. But bugger that, I do it all the time whilst I'm in clearing up mode rather than leaving it to cool and forgetting about it later.

But I agree the concerns raised in the original post is food safety paranoia and I wouldn't change a thing.

 

[whipper_snapper]

I've just bought one for this very purpose; cooking the day before leaving, keeping sealed against contamination, allowing re-heating at higher temperature and pressure than a standard saucepan, with the advantage that the lid is clamped down tight and can't spill the beans if conditions get a bit rough. Not a guarantee I agree but better than the semi-thawed stews I've occasioned to date (large quantity of chilli and garlic helps too I suspect).

Actually, it IS a total guarantee as long as it is not contaminated after cooking.

10 mins or so in a pressure cooker will completely sterilize food. I spent much of my early career culturing mammalian cells transformed by various agents. I still supervise people who do this kind of stuff. Cultures were held for months - years sometimes - at 37C in a medium designed to support growth. Cultures were opened almost daily and 'fed' or sampled. A single fungus or bacterium would multiply and destroy the culture overnight.

But keeping true and total sterility was not difficult - it just required logic and meticulous care. We had huge and expensive autoclaves to zap the medium and some of its components, but often used a domestic pressure cooker on a bunsen burner as it was much faster.