How long is pizza safe to eat

[chequita guevara]

No food should be consumed after it has been left out for more than two hours according to the Feds. Most of the time, you can safely ignore this, but if you do, prepare for food poisoning.

Although anything with protein in it is going to start going bad fairly quickly, the cheese on a pizza should be safe to eat after being out for a long time. If there's meat on your pizza, don't eat it if it's been two hours since it was cooked and you haven't refrigerated it.

[DirtyMartini]

Why does the FBI care about when you eat your pizza?

[Dauphin]

No food should be consumed after it has been left out for more than two hours according to the Feds.

Really? Does that include raw fruits and vegetables?

[SlowwHand]

in any case I've left pizza out all night with no harmful effects. I voted 48 hours. Cheese doesn't go bad very quickly, esp. melted cheese. The meat I'm not sure about. But I think if you have the balls, you go eat it after 48 hours. I wouldn't go much longer than that, however.

Says the now blinded man.

[chequita guevara]

Really? Does that include raw fruits and vegetables?

Probably not, unless you've sliced them or otherwise damaged them.

[SpencerH]

No food should be consumed after it has been left out for more than two hours according to the Feds. Most of the time, you can safely ignore this, but if you do, prepare for food poisoning.

Although anything with protein in it is going to start going bad fairly quickly, the cheese on a pizza should be safe to eat after being out for a long time. If there's meat on your pizza, don't eat it if it's been two hours since it was cooked and you haven't refrigerated it.

Rubbish.

[Dis]

2 hours lol. Talk about pansies. Real men eat meat long after maggots start crawling on it. Seriously talk about being overly cautious.

[SlowwHand]

Eat it. Let Darwinism work it's course.

[Riesstiu IV]

I hear 48" pizzas last 1 billion years before expanding into a 192" pizza. Then the 192" pizza eventually collapses in upon itself to form a pizza singularity that absorbs a light and matter in a 10 light year radius.

After eons, the pizza singularity forms into a super dense calzone. A single crumb from this calzone weighs hundreds of metric tons.

So the answer is 1 billion years. After that, the pizza becomes to unstable to eat and digest.

[Ben Kenobi]

Forever.

Pizza forms a crust to protect itself from the elements. Once you cut away at the crust, you get to the goodness inside.

[mrmitchell]

Pizza has never lasted long enough in my household to make a reasonable hypothesis.

Normally true but I'm a student and I got twenty sextillion free pizzas from a campus event that hadn't eaten them all yet.

[SlowwHand]

Send it to Wiggy.

[Riesstiu IV]

By the time it reaches him, wiggy will have died. His only hope now is to eat carpet fibers, go to a soup kitchen, or ask friends/family for help. The latter two solutions being too obvious and sensible for wiggy.

[MrFun]

You guys are nuts. I always refrigerate my pizza when I'm done eating some of it!

[Theben]

Rubbish.

Not really. Prepared foods left out at room temp spoil rather quickly, but it depends on a number of factors whether or not bacteria will grow fast enough to make you ill. The feds just treat all foods the same and tell you to discard after 4 hours- not 2- whether room temp or not.

That said I've eaten food left out for hours and been fine.