35°c today. How safe is leaving mayo in the sun?

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  1. Being a foreigner, I was was always instructed to keep mayo in fridge regardless. Imagine my confusion when I got here.

    Though we do use lot more tatare sauce over mayo…. On chips, potatoes, salads ext so there could just be why.

  2. If it’s a plastic bottle I’d be more worried about the plastic heating up and leaching chemicals into the sauce

  3. Technically it should be fine, if the pub is popular and the mayo goes fast. The health regulations state that if the mayo has been out of a fridge for more than 8h, it should be tossed. But if it’s empty as in this picture, they will probably reuse it the next day and u are bound for pooptown, if not worse.

  4. To even get close enough to the sun to drop mayo into it is dangerous, and doing so would require some special thermal resistant housing, but even that may be engulfed by the intense temperature.

    If the Mayo bottles portrayed here are candidates for this journey I suggest briefing them first without the presence of tomato sauce.

  5. depends what microbes are in it already (basically all food has some in it already unless it’s gamma irradiated), E.coli has a doubling time of 30 min at 37C, which makes it the fastest growing bacterium known, also the levels of bacteria that will cause food poisoning are less than the levels that give the signs of spoilage. that all said the other preservatives and conditions in the bottle maybe inhibiting growth. Either way I probably wouldn’t recommend it.

  6. In a sealed container, it probably won’t be an issue. Might not taste too good.

    Contrary to myth, mayonnaise is not particularly great for bacterial growth (acid). Now, meat in the sun…

  7. You need to get about a mile from this. If u have friends or family members within the blast radius tell them to get out of there.

  8. My neighbour was hospitalised for a week after eating mayonnaise her son had taken to work in a 40C+ factory. This is why I don’t eat mayonnaise or salad cream from other peoples houses🤢

  9. Why do British keep sauces out of the fridge?

    I still have not figured it out after ten years here.

  10. If you don’t have Mayo in the fridge you deserve some sort of mildly awful thing to happen to you.

  11. The funniest part about this is that you seem to think it’s being stored properly the rest of the time.

  12. I had a ketchup from Sainsbury’s exploding recently because it was hot and something was growing inside. It was fairly new

  13. Safer than eating it. Mayonnaise is the devil’s smegma. You should also refer to it by it’s correct long form name, “Ruined chicken sandwich”.

  14. I often see mayonnaise out of the fridge in food joints and it always confuses me. It’s not supposed to be yellow!

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