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    Ready meals 'Do not reheat' instruction

    Why do they say that? I know the issues about reheating cold rice, but why would my lamb rogan josh be a health hazard if I reheat it?

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    Ready meals 'Do not reheat' instruction

    I'd never really thought about the phrase 'piping hot' before. I thought maybe it was something to do with pipes containing hot water, or perhaps that a Scottish piper used to fanfare the arrival of a really hot dish.

    Nope, all to do with the little whistling noises made by steam coming off super-hot food.

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      Ready meals 'Do not reheat' instruction

      why would my lamb rogan josh be a health hazard if I reheat it?
      It was probably a health hazard before you first heated it.

      Seriously though, cooked meat is like Las Vegas for some quite harmful bacteria, and reheating it after eg 24 hours only encourages them. Most people would probably only suffer a mild dose of the trots at worst (and probably put the effects down to eating a curry in the first place) but it can be quite serious, so that's why the companies cover their bases.

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        Ready meals 'Do not reheat' instruction

        Yeah, the more often you allow food to cool down, be heated up, cool down again etc., the more of a chance you're giving bacteria to multiply. By the same token if you've cooked food yourself from scratch and heat up leftovers it's best to avoid reheating more than once (and to serve it while it's still hot).

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          Ready meals 'Do not reheat' instruction

          Because the meal will have been cooked already to some extent so technically when you cook it you are just reheating it. I remember from home economics class that you should only reheat food once to avoid food poisoning.

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