I just did the same thing 😭 and it was for my child 😥i want to be horrible and RETURN the item bc i know they'll throw it in the trash for me(and i allso bought a lot of coconut oil from that dtire that daid good until 2022yet i noticed a few months later ( it was pantry stock up..) once it turned liquid it was allready rancid and i didn't have the receipt 😳..so thats off topic but i don't have money to throw away with out the bite ..ouch‼️😭k thnx for answering this ..um..5 years ago....for me and im glad i didn't feed it to him 😅
I know, I know... I think I knew it even before I asked the question, but there was a tiny ray of hope. I hate to see them go. Thank you all for taking the time to answer.
I do not think it is safe to eat. As another member mentioned, it has been out of the safe temperature zone for too many hours and the potential for harmful bacteria to have grown has exponentially risen. Plus, as a reply to another member as to people who do not have refrigeration keeping their food out on counters, I cannot attest to that, but surely the food they may be consuming comes from sources they personally have a connection to. Whereas in industrial countries and it being sometimes very difficult to directly source your food, there is no way to ensure the conditions with which the sausage was packaged was safe to begin with. You take a lofty chance to trust the manufacturing plant the sausage was made in that their conditions were optimal the day that sausage was packaged. And a way to safeguard even those conditions is to keep food in it's appropriate holding temperatures so that more harmful bacteria cannot grow, until you cook it, killing most of that bacteria. But since it has sat out for so long, there is no way to know. As one who works in kitchens full-time, I would not risk it. Sausage is inexpensive, just buy another one. :/
Sausage, similar to ground anything, has been so processed, with its contents exposed to air and who knows what else. The more processed a food, the greater its exposure to air as a prime component of bacterial contamination. It doesn't matter that it has been vacuum packed. It matters that it has been in the temperature danger zone for many hours. If you're feeling brave, cook and it eat it. If not, don't.
It should be fine, no chance of microbial contamination because of the packaging.
I'm sure someone else will tell you to throw it out.
Note that before refrigeration (and yes, there are tons of people on this planet who still don't have modern refrigeration), people left out food all the time.
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For example, fried potato with sausage
I'm sure someone else will tell you to throw it out.
Note that before refrigeration (and yes, there are tons of people on this planet who still don't have modern refrigeration), people left out food all the time.
Anyhow, good luck with your decision.