Beef joint gone grey after defrosting.. is it safe?

Use your nose!

When meat is genuinely "off", you can tell a mile away. A lot of food poisoning comes from meat that has been warm for a period of time, and then only partially cooked (i.e. the meat is fine, but things have grown on it).

In short, if in doubt:

1) Sniff it
2) If you're still worried, cook it through properly (i.e. not pink).

Job done!
 
i've reheated house special curry with rice loads of times. it's usually left on the lounge table and i bang it in the microwave for breakfast on the sunday morning after a saturday night skinfulll!

yum yum breakfast of champions
 
http://www.eatwell.gov.uk said:
It's true that you could get food poisoning from eating reheated rice. But it's not actually the reheating that's the problem – it's the way the rice has been stored before reheating.

Uncooked rice can contain spores of Bacillus cereus, bacteria that can cause food poisoning. When the rice is cooked, the spores can survive. Then, if the rice is left standing at room temperature, the spores will germinate into bacteria. These bacteria will multiply and may produce toxins (poisons) that cause vomiting or diarrhoea. Reheating the rice won't get rid of these toxins.

So, the longer cooked rice is left at room temperature, the more likely it is that bacteria, or the toxins they produce, could stop the rice being safe to eat.

It's best to serve rice when it has just been cooked. If that isn't possible, cool the rice as quickly as possible (ideally within one hour) and keep it in the fridge for no more than one day until reheating.

Remember that when you reheat any food, you should always check that it's steaming hot all the way through, and avoid reheating more than once.
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Dolph said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler's_fallacy

Rice can breed some pretty nasty spores as it cools which aren't killed by reheating. If you are planning to reheat it, freeze it rather than letting it cool slowly.
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Can't be that risky... Every supermarket in the country sells cooked rice which you heat up in the microwave. (And it isn't frozen).

Also I work at a college in the kitchen, and only 2 hours ago I was putting the leftover rice into tuppareware containers to be re-heated tomorrow.
 
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