One thing I like to do is to take a couple of small pans and fill them with a casserole mix (pasta, stuffing, chicken and rice, etc), bake it enough to be cooked, and put the pans away [in the fridge to be precise] to be reheated and eaten later. If I cook these on Sunday and then on Tuesday I have a friend over and take one of the small casseroles out to reheat (which has not been touched since it was wrapped up after baking) am I feeding a friend leftovers, or does it only count as decent food if I make the casserole from scratch that Tuesday night regardless of if it takes an hour longer to get dinner on the table? Is this exactly the same as pulling out a couple of Tupperware half-full of tumbled dinner remnants which sat out for an hour before being put away?
Is it ethically wrong to cook ahead? I certainly have not found it to be necessarily biologically dangerous if one observes food safety guidelines.
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Is something cooked ahead necessarily leftovers?
One thing I like to do is to take a couple of small pans and fill them with a casserole mix (pasta, stuffing, chicken and rice, etc), bake it enough to be cooked, and put the pans away [in the fridge to be precise] to be reheated and eaten later. If I cook these on Sunday and then on Tuesday I have a friend over and take one of the small casseroles out to reheat (which has not been touched since it was wrapped up after baking) am I feeding a friend leftovers, or does it only count as decent food if I make the casserole from scratch that Tuesday night regardless of if it takes an hour longer to get dinner on the table? Is this exactly the same as pulling out a couple of Tupperware half-full of tumbled dinner remnants which sat out for an hour before being put away?
Is it ethically wrong to cook ahead? I certainly have not found it to be necessarily biologically dangerous if one observes food safety guidelines.