Eating Cold Cooked Rice

[homedeeth]

After cooking rice for a dish for the evening I'm presuming I can let the rice cool down thouroughly, bung it in the fridge and it will be alright to eat the next day cold?
There is a reason why I want to do this but I won't bore you with it

[Mamyalynne]

I have done and no doubt wil do again with no problem, as long as it's cooled quickly and kept cold until you need it.

[Samuraisan]

You can keep cooked rice in the fridge safely for a couple of days, then reheat in the microwave or use as fried rice. We do this constantly as we eat a lot of rice. We have never had a problem.

[Mamyalynne]

I think homedeeth wants to eat it cold, say in a rice salad or similar.

[dannyk13]

In Italy cold rice is often eaten as part of a salad without any ill effects.

[Mamyalynne]

All I would add is that if you are making it to travel with - a packed lunch or a picnic say - store in a cold box/bag on the journey.

[Samuraisan]

Can't see a problem , if it is just a couple of days in the fridge and then eaten cold.

[New Judge]

You need to be a bit careful.

Uncooked rice can contain spores of Bacillus cereus. These spores can survive when rice is cooked and they can cause food poisoning. If rice is kept at room temperature they multiply and create bacteria which produce toxins. The only way to eliminate this risk is not to use cooled/reheated rice. If you do use it it should be cooled as soon as possible and in any case within an hour. It should be kept refrigerated until ready for re-use and then heated thoroughly.

[Mamyalynne]

Hard work making a rice salad with hot rice.

Good luck homedeeth, maybe I've been fortunate.

[Garaman]

I make quite a lot of rice salads in the summer and often cook the rice the day before. I cool it quickly and keep it cool until we eat it, and we have never made anyone ill to my knowledge.

[fender62]

put the rest in the fridge after consuming straight away.

[dannyk13]

The danger comes when the rice is left out of the fridge and then re-heated.

[Tilly2]

Cook the rice, use what you need for your hot dish, plunge the leftover rice into iced cold water, eat your hot meal, drain cooled rice and place in the fridge.

[horseshoes]

I had a VERY nasty experience of eating cold rice. Nobody's fault except my own. I cooked rice the day befor, cooled it and made a rice salad which was kept in the fridge overnight. I had a stall at an indoor antique fair and ate my rice salad for lunch around 1.30. It hadn't been in a fridge. Around 6 o'clock I was violently ill; I honestly thought I was dying. The pains were horrendous. So please be more careful than I was.

[woofgang]

it may not have been the rice

[Mamyalynne]

That's the main reason I added about possibly transporting the food, keep well chilled all the while.

[dannyk13]

Good point, in Italy we always carried it in a cool box,

[whiskeryron]

I love cold rice pudding . Any day of the week,

[horseshoes]

Woofgang, I'm pretty sure it was.

[Hopkirk]

Beware! There can be very nasty food poisoning from rice if it is not stored correctly.

[Peter Pedant]

yes I would bung it warm into a fridge
( sort of as near to cook-chill as you can get )

eat and enjoy - you dont have to tell us why you want to ear cold congealed rice - I do it quite a lot actually - good with soy