"Is My Food Safe" is a newer free app to help you with those nagging questions, such as:
- Is that leftover item from last weekend still good?
- How long can I keep that opened container of sour cream?
- How long does it take to roast this whole chicken?
There's even a quiz "Is my Kitchen Safe?" I took the quiz and got one wrong! Even though I am the Queen of Food Safety (and no one wants to hear about that, by the way), I missed the question about the safe way to thaw food. I picked the answer "in the refrigerator", but the right answer was "in the refrigerator and in the microwave".
Ok, I know you can thaw stuff in the microwave. But I also know that microwaves cook and thaw unevenly, and I was thinking about a friend who thaws meat in her microwave in the morning, and there it sits until she's ready to cook dinner (Yikes!)
To read more about the app, check out the Home Food Safety web site.
