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[barrydidit]

I'm on the train.

[barrydidit]

I'm on the train.

Eh?

[barrydidit]

i'm on the train.

eh?

Oh, never mind. Caps isn't working for my lame 'shouty' joke. I wish the same applied to the chunt on his phone behind me.

[NickFitz]

The fan heater is working again!

Looks like getting all the dust out was all it required

[NickFitz]

Oh, never mind. Caps isn't working for my lame 'shouty' joke. I wish the same applied to the chunt on his phone behind me.

There's an anti-shouting filter that detects if a post is all-caps and transposes it to lowercase

[barrydidit]

There's an anti-shouting filter that detects if a post is all-caps and transposes it to lowercase

BaLLS.

[NickFitz]

My year end accounts turned up today. This inspired me to sort out my expenses for the month, given that there's unlikely to be any change in them over the next week. I discovered that I hadn't claimed back the cost of the conference pass for ffconf earlier this month when I paid for it earlier in the year, which gave a nice little boost to the amount the company owed me

[NickFitz]

Anybody know the score with reheating pies? I fancy pie and chips with gravy for dinner, but I don't know whether it's safe to reheat the pie, or if I should have it cold

Order of events was:

1. Made pie filling (beef casserole);
2. Allowed to cool and put in the fridge overnight;
3. Made the pies with the cold casserole;
4. Baked the pies, meaning the casserole has been reheated once, to at least 80° as I recollect, probably hotter as I left them in a while longer after taking the temperature;
5. Cooled the pies (except the one I ate);
6. Pies in the fridge since then.

So that means the beef casserole will be getting a second reheating, which apparently is a Bad Thing. I'm tempted to do it anyway, as hot pie > cold pie. But will it kill me?

[BrilloPad]

Anybody know the score with reheating pies? I fancy pie and chips with gravy for dinner, but I don't know whether it's safe to reheat the pie, or if I should have it cold

Order of events was:

1. Made pie filling (beef casserole);
2. Allowed to cool and put in the fridge overnight;
3. Made the pies with the cold casserole;
4. Baked the pies, meaning the casserole has been reheated once, to at least 80° as I recollect, probably hotter as I left them in a while longer after taking the temperature;
5. Cooled the pies (except the one I ate);
6. Pies in the fridge since then.

So that means the beef casserole will be getting a second reheating, which apparently is a Bad Thing. I'm tempted to do it anyway, as hot pie > cold pie. But will it kill me?

I think it will be okay if thoroughly reheated and tio get greater temperature than it first.

But I would google it first to be sure!

Where is Norrahe when you need her?

[NickFitz]

I think it will be okay if thoroughly reheated and tio get greater temperature than it first.

But I would google it first to be sure!

Where is Norrahe when you need her?

Apparently one thing to worry about is toxins produced by bacteria, not just the bacteria themselves. As the food passes through the temperature range where the bacteria are highly active, these toxins are produced; and the more times the food passes through that range, the higher the level of toxins.

Then there's the small number of bacteria who are able to withstand the heat due to genetic advantage. They survive, and next time flourish because their competition has been killed off, producing even more heat-resistant bacteria. Reheating gets those new ones going too, and in no time you have enough of them to cause illness, or alternatively to produce lots of toxins.

So it's all Darwin's fault, or something