A super-quick, easy dinner for Gdcs when you’ve all been out all day and they’re ‘starving’….

I never put rice in the fridge just keep it at room temp put a plate over it and it lasts a few days in various dishes
Guess my gut has always been used to it

The food poisoning events linked to cooked rice have been when large amounts of rice have been cooked and left in a warm place for possibly 2 days, then briefly reheated - mostly Chinese take-aways.
Home cooked rice used same day, as OP has described or kept in fridge for a few days, is very unlikely to cause illness.
The microbe involved, Bacillus cereus , takes time and warm temperature to multiply and produce a toxin.

Reheated rice is far better for the gut health and blood sugar levels.
You just have to cool it quickly. I cook it in a rice cooker, freeze it in batches, and have done so for many years.

A quick meal is a previously made pasta sauce served with fresh pasta, grated cheese and herbs. On the table in 5 minutes.

MayBee70

I’m paranoid about reheating rice.

So am I.
I ended up in hospital in China on a drip.
And it was my birthday. The Dr said it was probably rice.
I was also ill in Turkey.

MayBee70

I’m paranoid about reheating rice.

Similar to what BlueBelle posted - the waitress we hd every day in Indonesia told us that early every morning she cooked 2 kg of rice, for all her extended family’s meals all day. And somehow I doubt that it was all refrigerated all day.

In a good many places rice is eaten at every meal. A colleague of dd, when she was working in Aceh, Indonesia, told her that she had to have rice at every meal, or she didn’t feel full.

We were with them both one morning when Hariatty, the colleague, stopped our vehicle in order to buy her breakfast from a street vendor. It consisted of sweet sticky rice cooked in coconut milk, served on a large leaf - probably banana.
It cost the equivalent of 2.5p!

When she asked me how much it cost to buy breakfast in England, I hadn’t the heart to tell her that about 100 times that would probably be the cheapest you could possibly get!

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That sounds tasty 😋 especially with the fish fingers...

Just going to say can’t go wrong with fish fingers 😋

If I’m cooking rice in advance I spread the cooked rice on a metal baking tray sat on top of a flat freezer pack. Into the fridge as soon as it’s cold. I’ve been doing it for years and have never had a problem.

I reheat rice for days and have never ever had a problem
Usually cook at least enough for three days sometimes with a day off between My then West Indian mother in law would cook a huge pan and everyone heated it up as and when they came in

MayBee70

I’m paranoid about reheating rice.

Me too. I have microwave packets of rice for quick meals. They take 90 seconds in the microwave

I’m paranoid about reheating rice.

That sounds tasty 😋 especially with the fish fingers...