Prepared Mashed Potatoes

[Luke_Porter]

The mashed potato instructions say it must be heated to 160---any reason I can't eat it cold?

[littlemo]

So if you want to make potato salad out of it you have to heat it, make potato salad, then cool it back down?

[rockhillmanor]

Super_Dave wrote:
If one was suspect, couldn't the potatoes be frozen, thawed and eaten cold?

Both salmonella and listeria are NOT killed by cold temperatures and actually can multiply. Heating to 160 is the only way they are killed.

[Super_Dave]

If one was suspect, couldn't the potatoes be frozen, thawed and eaten cold?

[2_Retired]

Because they taste nasty!!! NO really, they taste so much better heated!

[darsben]

After it is in your possession you may do with it a you wish. It is your product. If not stored correctly somewhere in the chain you could get sick.

[rockhillmanor]

Super_Dave wrote:
Luke, it's all about the lawyers.

:B

That and the fact considering the conditions many prepared foods are made in? I heat up on high everything that says 'precooked'. I live by the rules of better being safe than sorry.

Just google Listeria on the FDA site and look at all the companies issued warning letters. That do NOT hit the 10:00 news.:W

[Super_Dave]

Luke, it's all about the lawyers.