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Sheldon Sheldon is offline
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Default Oops, I left a pot of tomato sauce out all night

Ward Abbott wrote:
> "levelwave" wrote:
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> > If I boil it when I get home will it still be ok to eat?

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> Would you boil a bottle of ketchup if you left it out overnight? The acidity of tomatoes will be a preservative. *


C'mon, it ain't the same thing... ketchup is a condiment that's at
least 10 times more acerbic (and far saltier, and drier) than typical
pasta sauce, ketchup is essentially preserved tomatoes... but now we
know how you sauce your ****ghetiOs.

Sheldon