The issue is not refrigeration, but how you got to there: how is the hot rice cooled before putting it in the fridge.
I imagine not everyone has a blast chiller at home. Does one leave it to cool off naturally, and in what kind of container? Perhaps overnight?
During this process, the rice can take hours to go from 90°C to room temp, and it is during this process that the toxins are created. It might be too late when you put it in the fridge.
Cooling off needs ro be done as quickly as possible by spreading the rice, for instance.
It is not necessarily the lack of basic understanding of biology that causes people to get sick and therefore many to throw away good rice, but the incomplete understanding of the cooking process.
When you get a box of cold rice, there is no way of smelling how it has been cooled and if it is toxic or not.
In all my experiences, rice cools off pretty fast and dries out pretty fast. It may be starchy and risk B. cereus but it really isn't the greatest medium for it unlike pasta covered in sauce.
The problem is with cooked rice that hasn't been cooled off properly (or not kept hot enough). The heat-resistant spores of the Bacillus Cereus will then develop and the bacteria will proliferate and produce a heat-resistant toxin, which can hurt you even after reheating the leftover rice.
You need to keep your rice cold (<7 °C) or hot (>63 °C) enough for the spores not to develop. Letting your rice cool off naturally in a pot is also leaving it at the wrong temperatures for a longer time than if you rapidly cool it off.
Me neither until very recently, when a student died from it. Then it was all over the news for a week. (I'm pretty sure that is in the level of being struck by lightning.) It has even a name: fried rice syndrome.
Agreed. I think this is one of the formats which would admittedly do better as a 30s reel than a 2-3min video. The gags about a junior JS developer or a grisly old C++ master are super funny, but there’s only so much material there.
The stereotype premise is funny but the jokes don't land very often. The jump cuts where he repeats words are also not jokes at all.
The recent video about the T3 stack just lists off names of libraries that we're all forced to use. I get that it's relatable but there's a difference between funny and relatable.
This is hilarious, but I can't imagine relying on 4 screws into the cheapest wood known to man, all at the one end, holding up a heavier rackmount server without it sagging dangerously. On the other hand, I can imagine two LACKs stacked, with the servers on top of the bottom table, their weight being borne by all 4 legs evenly, and just mounted to the legs of the top table just to hold them securely in place. Anyway, thanks for sharing that awesome link!
