Safe to eat?

LesMo · April 10

I was 12 hours into a cook of a 9.4 pound pork butt at 11 PM last night. Internal probe of the meat registered 189 as it had for the two previous hours. I went to bed and checked it at 6 AM. Internal probe registered 153 and dome temp was down yo 125. I wrapped the foil covered in towels in a cool and left it there until 9 AM. It looks great, but I sure don't know if it will be safe to consume. I would appreciate your input.

MaskedMarvel · April 10

If it was between 40° and 140° at the surface temp for longer than 4 hours, it MAY be unsafe.

Your call. I say go for it.

poster · April 10

I'd eat it, you had it well over the pasteurization temp for a long time.
Curious what was your dome temp? If you were at 189 at 11:00, I would think you would have been at 200-205 within a couple hours.

LesMo · April 10

Dome temp at 11PM was 238 when internal temp was 189.

ColbyLang · April 10

Eat. If nothing else buy some wipes

fishlessman · April 10

its fine, pasteurized, smoked for preservation, salt in the rub, etc

LesMo · April 12

Thanks for the helpful responses. I was the Guinea Pig and had some for lunch and it was fine. Everyone enjoyed some for dinner later that day.

Elijah · April 12

Ha. I do the same when something is questionable. Eat it a few hours early. Only food poisoning I've got was a subway meatball sub

caliking · April 12

LesMo said:

Thanks for the helpful responses. I was the Guinea Pig and had some for lunch and it was fine. Everyone enjoyed some for dinner later that day.

Smart move.

Re: food poisoning from toxins already in the food, one would be hitting the shitter within about 4hrs. For food poisoning from bugs that are consumed with the food, then make the toxins inside you, time-to-shitter is about 8ish hrs.

Your cook was fine. Glad y'all could enjoy it.

ColbyLang · April 12

caliking said:

LesMo said:

Thanks for the helpful responses. I was the Guinea Pig and had some for lunch and it was fine. Everyone enjoyed some for dinner later that day.

Smart move.

Re: food poisoning from toxins already in the food, one would be hitting the shitter within about 4hrs. For food poisoning from bugs that are consumed with the food, then make the toxins inside you, time-to-shitter is about 8ish hrs.

Your cook was fine. Glad y'all could enjoy it.

Man is giving you doctoral time to shitter quantifying measurements. That’s a win

caliking · April 12

ColbyLang said:

caliking said:

LesMo said:

Thanks for the helpful responses. I was the Guinea Pig and had some for lunch and it was fine. Everyone enjoyed some for dinner later that day.

Smart move.

Re: food poisoning from toxins already in the food, one would be hitting the shitter within about 4hrs. For food poisoning from bugs that are consumed with the food, then make the toxins inside you, time-to-shitter is about 8ish hrs.

Your cook was fine. Glad y'all could enjoy it.

Man is giving you doctoral time to shitter quantifying measurements. That’s a win

Just trying to be helpful, so one can plan accordingly

If I have concerns, I'll eat a small "test" portion the day before. Green light, if stool consistency doesn't change from baseline.

lousubcap · April 12

@caliking -Appreciate the info. I have two food poison experiences. One clocked in within your scholarly windows at around 4-5 hours, the other was around 30 hours on as best that was reconstructed. The extended duration event hit several others to varying degrees who attended the same party. Needless to say, that couple never hosted another event!

Botch · April 12

I got food poisoning from a dish I had at a mexican restaurant about twenty years ago, what's-her-name had a different dish and didn't get sick. Right about the four-hour point, we were watching TV and I had to make a beeline to the can and had a bad projectile vomiting. Just a few seconds later my GF just BUSTS out laughing, and could not stop laughing; I thought, "Wow, what a jerk!"
A minute later she came in the bathroom, asked how I was doing, and then said "Sorry about the laughter; right after you started getting sick your two Corgis made a half-walk/half-run out the doggie door, with extremely scared looks on their faces!"
Forgiven, and the mental picture even made me chuckle.

johnmitchell · April 12

@caliking. Any chance you could laminate that for hanging behind the shitter door, asking for a friend 😉

Elijah · April 13

It was about 4 hours as well. I tasted that something was off, but kept going. It was explosive after that.

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