@lynnsgirl : I did a quick google and it looks like you should toss it. Better safe than sorry imo.

@lynnsgirl : How cold is your house? Do you want everyone sick? It is to cheap make a new batch.

@lynnsgirl : Offer it to your ex and let us know the results.

Make a new batch.

In the trash so.. thx guys

@lynnsgirl : NO! You can still eat it! We leave it like that for days some times Well.. not now I guess.

@sandman : Hope you refrigerate it setting out is dangerous!

@carol888 : Nah! We've been doing this literally for generations... we've never got sick. Americans don't know rice.

@lynnsgirl :I use to cook it in an electric rice cooker & leave it on the counter covered till the next night when I added a little water & reheated it . For about the last 15 yrs I use a microwave rice cooker & leave it sitting out with the cover on & then add a little water & re-heat in the microwave . Never got sick never killed anyone with day old rice left out of the frig .

where I'm from some folks in the country don't even have electricity, so no refrigeration, no microwaves... you cook the rice and it's good for days. and you never throw away rice, or any other food... believe me. you folks know nothing! :-(

For future reference, a great website for food shelf life is www.stilltasty.com
And, yes, it said 2 hour limit on room temperature rice.
Good to know. My mom has been keeping hers out too long for years!!

@texas2011 : 2 hours? that's TOTAL ********...

Our entire thanksgiving meal sat out on the counter for six or seven hours yesterday. Leftovers for dinner didn't kill any of us.