r/KitchenConfidential • u/AlchemyAlice • 8d ago

In the Weeds Mode Left Ziti out overnight, OPs husband still eating it

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u/moranya1 8d ago

I would never dream to serve a paying customer sausages from a gas station that have been there for who knows how long, but I 100% would devour 2-3 of those at 11 after work!

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u/PotatoesMcLaughlin 8d ago

I've eaten shit left out over night plenty of times. Mostly pizza.

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u/Commercial_Part_5160 8d ago

I grew up with leaving take out pizza in the oven overnight and eating it the next day and beyond.

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u/Cloverskeeper 8d ago

My family does this and my last girlfriend nearly killed me after I left a pizza box with a few slices in it in the oven and she preheated it without knowing it was in there she called me at work freaking out, I just asked her if my slices survived… bit charred but still edible

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u/thefightforgood 8d ago

Glad the pizza survived. How'd the relationship do?

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u/tragedy_strikes_ 8d ago

Probably bought another pizza later on.

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u/Waste_Raspberry5548 7d ago

You got me good

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u/Kienan95 7d ago

Id like to think he kept her around. The pizza was still edible so you can't be too mad at her

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u/gourdammit 7d ago

Hopefully alright because it's his last girlfriend. It's make or break now.

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u/breath-of-the-smile 7d ago

Hopefully she moved on and found someone who doesn't leave flammable shit in the oven without telling anyone.

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u/Impressive_Pay_5628 7d ago

And maybe he found someone who checks the oven before turning it on. See how this kinda logic goes on mindlessly?

Hopefully, your man finds someone who doesn't find reasons to be like this

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u/Fit_Carpet_364 7d ago

Lol. It's the toilet seat argument all over again. I just put both lids down so everyone has to work for it. And to stop the toilet plume.

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u/Kalayo0 7d ago

I think it’s cultural- bunch of brown folk use the oven as almost like an extended storage. My homeboys left some Tupperware in there and their roommates melted it preheating the oven. I still leave my cast iron pan in the oven and my current roommates hate it, but I do 75% of the chores around here so I don’t really give two fucks how they feel about that.

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u/BeerAndTools 7d ago

Eyyy that's where my cast iron lives, too! Say, you didn't have a mom who thought the broiler was for pan storage, did you?

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u/Kalayo0 5d ago

I didn’t grow up int the CONUS. Broilers we’re definitely not standard issue!

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u/gtdurand 8d ago

That's that corrugated cardboardclassic brick oven char.

To this day I crack the oven & peek in before touching any dials because I did that myself once. My first weekend left unsupervised as a younger teen and I almost started a fire in my childhood home. A one-and-done teachable moment.

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u/peach_xanax 6d ago

I ruined the oven in a friend's house by doing that 😩 it was Xmas Eve, to make it even worse. It was a decade ago but I still feel so horrible (and embarrassed) when I think about it. I still maintain that you shouldn't keep plastic Tupperware in the damn oven though, it's just asking for an accident to happen. I had genuinely never known that some people store flammable items in their ovens til that day.

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u/Beautiful_Rhubarb 7d ago

I always check after traumatizing my kids by melting a Diego doll when he was just on an adventure and it wasn't even supposed to get that hot.. ;)

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u/moranya1 8d ago

I did that once in the 4th place I lived at! The kitchen was MAJORLY lacking in storage space when we first moved in, so my wife stored all of our cutting boards in the oven -TEMPORARILY- until we decided where they would be stored. queue me making supper and turning the oven on..... R.I.P.

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u/PurplePolynaut 7d ago

My dad once tried to reheat a pizza in the oven in the box. Needless to say we had to order a new pizza that night.

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u/meh_69420 7d ago

They used to tell you to do that in the 90s with instructions printed on the box iirc... Set oven to 200f and throw it in there for 20 minutes.

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u/PurplePolynaut 7d ago

Pretty sure he slapped that bad boy in there at 350 and just said “I’ll know when it’s hot”.

Hey, you know, you learn something new everyday.

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u/jeroboamj 7d ago

While cardboard may not burn per se it is a laminated glued paper product that expels gas when warmed too hot etc . Most cardboard will co bust at 450 or above (thank you Ray Bradbury)

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u/leftwar0 8d ago

My ex is PR and leaves pans of cooking oil in the oven. I was also a big fan of preheating the oven without checking the contents first. Wildly dangerous.

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u/CloisteredOyster 8d ago

I did this a couple of times in my life. That's why now that I'm old my procedure is: set the oven temp, hit start, open door and check inside.

96% of the time there's nothing in there.

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u/Oshwaflz Pastry 7d ago

i gained this habit in a much easier way. too many times have i preheated the oven, 15 mins later when i have a big casserole dish in my hands i open the oven to multiple hot cast irons. So fortunately the inconvenience alone helped me learn to check

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u/confusedandworried76 7d ago

Shouldn't that be 100% of the time?

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u/Complete_Entry 7d ago

There was a MASSIVE reddit thread about this. I'm on your team. The oven is perfectly cromulent place to store the pizza DAY OF until you've sawed off enough to shove the rest in the fridge.

People who preheat ovens without looking are some gosh dang morons.

TEAM ALWAYS CHECK.

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u/meatslaps 7d ago

An old friend did this at her exes house, I was the only friend that said well duh that’s where you store leftover pizza. Even still, my family always taught me to check an oven before I turn it on. I might be the only person at work that does every time.

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u/eggo_pirate 7d ago

Growing up our oven was used for storage. Leftover pizza still in the box, pots and pans, things like that (always kitchen stuff, never clothes or anything like that). So as an adult, I kept doing it, and having raised my kids, they do it.

Having all been raised doing this thing, that I always thought was absolutely normal, we always check the oven before turning it on. It's just what you do.

Then my now husband and I moved in together and he wasn't up on the routine. He has definitely text me a few times that he almost burned the house down because there was a pizza box in there and he turned the oven on.

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u/VoodooSweet 7d ago

Ya…Cookie Sheets, some Muffin Trays, and my Wife’s “Chex Mix” Pan, like the pan she cooks her Chex Mix in, she likes to make her own… Are always stored in the Oven, and must be removed before the oven is preheated. That’s how my parents did it, then when my GF(wife now) moved in together, that’s what she did as well, so I thought it was “standard operating procedure” honestly. I don’t know, maybe it’s a “Midwest” thing. I’m a Chef for a major Hotel(over 1200 rooms) in a very large Hotel Restaurant, I’d fire someone for doing that shit in my Kitchen at work tho….

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u/Finnegan-05 7d ago

Yeah it is not fine to leave food or junk in an oven

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u/0wl_licks 7d ago

Literally the only time I had to break out the fire extinguisher—pizza left in-box in the oven.

It wasn’t an uncontrollable flame, but it was big enough and it would’ve smoked out the entire apartment.
So, it was the best course of action.

I was so annoyed. Just put it in the f fridge, dude. F..

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u/chronotoast85 7d ago

I don't think I've ever turned on an oven without looking inside first.

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u/KlutzySentence1982 7d ago

Please help me understand. Why do people think leaving meat and cheese at room temperature for multiple days is fine?

To me, if people do that it’s like the equivalent of hanging out with a friend and they find a cheese stick they lost in the couch 2 days prior and don’t hesitate to eat it.

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u/meh_69420 7d ago

I mean, cheese is aged at cellar temp (like 10-15c) for years... And if the meat is cured it's not going to spoil over night. Salt curing meat was one of the free ways you could preserve it for millennia before refrigeration was invented.

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u/Complete_Entry 7d ago

It's a day of procedure, you don't leave it in there for a week.

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u/who_even_cares35 8d ago

I was raised by a germaphope and when I was like 17 I went to a buddy's house and he gave me a cold slice of pizza from the oven.

I just assumed it had been put there earlier in the afternoon, only later that evening did I find out it had been in there for 2 days

It had never occurred to me that somebody would commit such an atrocity like this with food. But here I am surviving the ordeal! My mother lost her shit when I told her.

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u/GoingOffline 8d ago

Same here

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u/Old_Badger311 8d ago

My family did too. To this day I hate cold pizza.

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u/bleezzzy 8d ago

I fucking love cold pizza lol

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u/bene_gesserit_mitch 8d ago

Yeah, I prefer cold pizza to room temp pizza, though.

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u/Commercial_Part_5160 7d ago

Sameeeee. love the name.

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u/MLiOne 7d ago

Breakfast of Champions is what we call it.

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u/Mot_Dyslexic 8d ago

My wife just threw one away that sat in the oven overnight and i complained for like 15 minutes straight. ...it was still good....

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u/ChefArtorias 8d ago

It's the beyond that'll get ya, even if it's just choking because it's so dry.

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u/Annual_Plankton2767 8d ago

These kids would never understand.

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u/Illustrious-Fox4063 7d ago

Bachelor's breakfast, warm beer and cold pizza.

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u/Remote-Canary-2676 7d ago

Cold pizza good. Room temp pizza not as good. In fact my last time slumming at Pizzeria UNO the pizza was better after the fridge overnight. Some cheese and sausage thing.

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u/deLamartine 7d ago

It’s mostly fine, just avoid it with starchy food, like rice, potatoes, etc. Fried rice syndrome has literally killed people.

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u/QueSeRawrSeRawr 8d ago

You eat pieces of shit for breakfast???

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u/XxMrCuddlesxX 7d ago

Im a firm believer that pizza left in the oven is good for three days.

Never gotten sick eating it before day four lol

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u/Astecheee 7d ago

I've left raw mince out overnight, then cooked and eaten it the next day.

Poverty does things to your standards.

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u/Remote-Canary-2676 7d ago

Veggie pizza left out over night is the most recent thing I’ve gotten violent food poisoning from. I’m definitely not the type to be the Reddit cops but not really “advice” worth spreading even if the odds are minimal. I thought that too and have been cooking for over 20 years. I paid dearly.

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u/dinglebarryb0nds 7d ago

Yea pizza is zero issue sitting out overnight. I’d start w a list of things I wouldn’t eat because it’s really short. Like fish or guacamole

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u/safarifriendliness 8d ago

Pizza is 90% made out of preservatives, it’s fine after a night out

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u/JelliedHam 8d ago

Same. For me it's usually oysters

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u/R2D2808 20+ Years 7d ago

Sofa pizza for the win.

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u/fetal_genocide 7d ago

When I got back to work after Christmas break I ate ham from the fridge that was expired before our vacation started. It wasn't slimy and smelled ok and I didn't get sick.

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u/Harambenzema 7d ago

This is totally safe. People are way too extreme, left out overnight for max 12 hours is absolutely safe. Woman is just tripping.

I think in Canada they say don’t leave chicken out for more than 2 hours which is ridiculous. They want us to throw everything in the garbage lmao

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u/SmokingInn 8d ago

I fucking love 8+ hour old hot dogs that have been spinning and heating all day. My wife and son both are like wtf when I randomly come outta the gas station with hot dogs like “they had some!” And I only get the older ones, fuck those fresh in the front ones. Gimme that shit that’s in the back bro, that one you was about to throw away lol

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u/Princess_Slagathor 8d ago

Long slow cook really breaks down the collagen and renders the fat nicely.

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u/Doghead45 7d ago

Do you also like burnt dogs off the grill? The only way I'll eat them.

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u/GirlGoneZombie 7d ago

These are the fucking best hot dogs and I'll die on this hill

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u/peppermintmeow 7d ago

And my axe. You'll have a friend on that hill.

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u/SmokingInn 7d ago

YES!!! People will be like hey I burnt one for you. I’ll go look at it and sure enough, needs another 10-15 mins at least lol

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u/Stinky_salmon666 8d ago

Crazy use of free will. Respect

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u/KingTutt91 8d ago

I got horrible food poisoning from a gas station hot dog, so never again. Couldn’t even pump gas at a Maverik for 6 months afterwards

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u/Infinite-Zucchini225 7d ago

This is me and oysters now. Even the idea of raw oysters makes me nauseous now, which sucks cause I used to love them

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u/mountain_rivers34 7d ago

I’m right there with you. I’ll take all the 8 hour cooked hot dogs. Sidebar, if you make your hot dogs in an air fryer at low temp, you get roller hot dog vibes.

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u/Complete_Entry 7d ago

Wizard fingers.

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u/peppermintmeow 7d ago

I love them too. Why are we like this?

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u/ScanianGoose 7d ago

After 12 hours we need to call them wizard fingers.

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u/1octobermoon 8d ago

Wizard Fingers

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u/carinislumpyhead97 8d ago

My favorite is when they give em to you for free cause they know how long they’ve been sitting there.

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u/Beaconxdr789 8d ago

I will fuck up the roller dogs at a 7/11 after a few drinks.

Don't anyone else do it tho those things will kill you

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u/RoadClassic1303 8d ago

You would never even be able to dream about serving someone at a restaraunt gas station sausages if they paid for them? Your dreams severely lack imagination my friend