Re: how long will tuna salad sandwiches keep in a cooler?


"Abe" <noone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <eu85e2p981ijq3g2qmldv2ci699dtj2kcp@xxxxxxx>, Abe
<noone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Suppose I have your average cooler with plenty of ice.
If I put in a tuna salad sandwich(tuna+mayo on bread, basically)
How long would these be safe to eat? I figure that they'd be good as
long as the stay cool from the ice so if the ice could keep 24-36 hours
they'd be good for about that long. Does that sound right?
Depends on the ambient (not spot) temperature in the cooler.

These times are derived from some amateur experimentation I did myself
years ago.

32F-33F, 36 hours
34F-38F, 24 hours
39F-40F, 18 hours
41F-45F, 12 hours
46F-50F, 6 hours
51+F, 1 hour

Geez, where'd ya get that many volunteers?
It was part of a food safety course science experiment that invloved
growing common food-borne bacterial pathogens at different
temperatures for different lengths of time and graphing when the
colony sizes reached FDA standards limits for safe consumption. Aggie
stuff in other words.



Very interesting. So all of those warm sandwiches I eat in grade school
should have killed me (and all of the other kids too). No wonder so many
kids got stomach aches back then. What was my mother thinking?

Larry T


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