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Making rice lousy

I'm quite worried, and I'm really worried about food poisoning etc. in the summer etc.
But when I had dinner today, my parents took the rice out of the rice cooker with a rice scoop that looked like it had sashimi on it. It seemed like it was fine when I was a parent, so I felt like it was fine. But I don't want my family to get food poisoning because of that, and I think summer is bad. But throwing away quite a bit of leftover rice would make the food poor, right? What on earth should I do? I threw away only the part I touched, but I didn't see it clearly, so I don't know where I scooped it up from, and since it's already been about 30 minutes since then, it's scary to think that bacteria are increasing
I can't make a decision on my own, so please respond.

4 Zen Responses

Food is important

I don't know if I'm going to get food poisoning, but I don't think it's possible to fix it right away if it sticks a little bit to the meal.

Recently, the word “sterilization” has begun to increase as a matter of course in the world, and there are places where it has been determined that bacteria = bad things.

Apart from this story, one problem is that they kill even necessary bacteria called indigenous bacteria. Coexisting with bacteria is also very important for humans, and it is also said that it is easier to cause illness because it is sterile.

I'm not too nervous, but I'm afraid of food poisoning, so why not try to eat something fresh and new as much as possible.
Also, if you cook grilled rice balls or fried rice before eating it, I don't think the rice will go to waste.

Food safety and waste

Yuri-sama
It was reported many years ago that only Japanese travelers from Southeast Asia contracted group dysentery. That would not have happened to Japanese people until the Showa 40s, but the Japanese generation where “food safety, sterilization, cleanliness...” was standardized may have weakened immunity.
At our Honzan Honganji Temple and Tokyo Tsukiji Honganji Temple, of course, we offer Buddhist meals every morning. Buddhist rice vessels are also larger than ordinary temples, and the amount of rice and the number of vessels are also large. Everything is put down after the memorial service, but they are also crushed and baked to make rice crackers as snacks, or made into porridge to share with pilgrims. It's not often eaten as a meal, but since it's an important Buddha's “hand-me-down,” it's not wasted. If you cook it again and arrange it further, you can eat it deliciously.
There is also a story that at the time of the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsukiji Honganji distributed this “hand-me-down” as emergency food along with rest areas for people who had trouble returning home.
As a Japanese person, I don't think we should forget the sensibility of being “wasteful.”

It's different if mold comes out... but it's impossible to leave Buddha's offerings alone until they become moldy (^^;)

What you can't see is a delusion

I'm actually receiving the rice I brought back from the store yesterday while on a trip.
I always get turned down by the clerk, so I said “I'll give it to my dog” and take it home.
It was fine to some extent, but it was annoying to some extent. I left that.
If you look at the production process to some extent, you should feel safe about whether germs are actually growing. Food poisoning is the worst thing in the food industry, so be careful about the products in the store.
There are also people who don't like it because they've only eaten things covered with some kind of germs since they were little.
Rather, let's look at such people to some extent and rely on our noses at the last minute to identify them.
If you are completely too particular about hygiene and hygiene, your intestines will weaken.
Conversely, things that don't go bad sold in a certain food industry are completely sterile, so people who only eat things pickled in such preservatives and antioxidants quickly break their stomachs as soon as their intestinal environment weakens against external enemies.
Recently, products and commercials that are recommended as a method to make people buy hygiene goods that make germs and odors visible on CG stand out. That is just brainwashing to “buy your own products.”
What made you worry too much about food poisoning?
Did I actually break my stomach and get food poisoning?
Don't put your thoughts on it when you eat it.
What is invisible to the eye and what doesn't actually exist is a delusion.
Or maybe the image of germs in commercials is so intense that they are fueling fear.
Let's rely on our nose and rely on facts to eat without getting mixed up with germs that think it might be like this or that. (^<^)
If you don't eat leftover rice during this season without keeping it warm for a long time, it will keep well if you store it by removing heat and moisture to some extent on a plate or the like so that it doesn't get stuffy.

Reheat or make a memorial service (offering) to insects

People in the olden days knew a lot of wisdom about reusing things.
One reason is that in Japan's national isolation, things (resources) were more valuable than labor (labor costs).

Food poisoning can be prevented quite a bit by heating.
Please heat it up.
For porridge or fried rice.

Or, if you have a garden at home, please spread rice in the garden and make a memorial service (service, donation) to feed insects, birds, and fungi.