@@aarewitwo weeks is really, REALLY pushing it, unless it’s frozen of course (ik the vid is about frozen food but generally if stuff is frozen you’re good for prolonged time). Even a week is pretty long for prepared food to sit
Fuck, man. What a nightmare. Imagine you lose your whole family to one joyous get-together breakfast because of a mistake and only you lived because you didn't like the food. Nature is ruthless
I am so tired of not being able to use perfectly good words we've used in some cases for hundreds of years. All with perfectly good meanings. I dispise the unalive one. As if anyone isn't aware it's a stupid substitute for a perfectly good word. Or it's used and you think "on purpose, accidently, from old age." We have perfectly good words for all of that. Edit: had to correct because when I hit send unalive became unalike. And...it just did it again.
@@pmc2999 yep i'm tired too. i've been banned once from youtube for 24 hours because i refused to be censored. the worst part is that now there's an AI reading every post and you can't even camouflage words very well because the goddamn AI is very good at catching disguised "no-no words".
I used to watch you all of the time with my ex-girlfriend. We dated for 4 years and were friends for almost a decade. We'd sit down and watch a video or two while we ate. Making jokes like *plays frozen hotsauce as soon as she takes a bite from her bacon* She was in the medical field and I just enjoyed learning, so it was a great time together. I'd ask questions about terminology i didn't fully understand, and she'd explain it in deeper detail to me. I started memorizing terms and even made a game of it. Every time you'd say a medical term we'd press pause and I'd guess the meaning of it. I was actually becoming quite good at it lol. Overall it was just a wholesome good time. After a bad breakup, I just couldn't watch these anymore. I would get flooded with happy memories from the past and then immediately become sad and depressed because I missed her very much. After almost a year, this is the first time that I was able to enjoy your content the way I used to. I really love your content and it continues to bring joy into my life. The very real lessons that are taught here and the empathy for those who are portrayed in the video. Just wanted to say thanks for your contribution to the world, medical field and all of your viewers' lives.
Thanks so much for sharing. I am glad you’re able to enjoy the videos again. I’ve been in similar before and for me it was a time very difficult too and hard to describe in words. Stay strong brother, bright future!
I really hope you see this, I worked at a interactive aquarium and "zoo". The corporation did not take the complaints of the fish room employees about the leaking ozone machine after 9 hours a day for 6 months of breathing in this ozone the girl started coughing up blood and chunks of her lung. I really hope one day you do a piece on the effects of ozone poisoning.
Ooooh, I've never heard of this happening before. How did the parts of her lungs start to come up? I think what your talking about would be a blood clot that looks like a cast of her lung. She couldn't cough up parts of her lung because their wouldn't be pressure to cough with. 🤔
We're moving from stock footage to full actors reproducing literature events in hospital beds with hospital equipment. Does Chunbyemu own a mock Emergency room warehouse set at this point?
As an organic chemist, if you showed me the structure of the toxin without context, i would never have guessed it was bioactive, let alone so profoundly toxic. Wow.
@@IamSentient314Not a biochemist, but compounds that react to our systems or tissues tend to resemble one another in shape. Since this looks like a fatty acid with a few things sticking off it, it looks unassuming.
@@IamSentient314many toxins will share some sort of functional group or shape which indicates some route of toxicity. This one doesn't have anything that would indicate such a high toxicity and if I didn't know any better I would assume it's some metabolic intermediate
as soon as i saw the all asian casting I immediately know which case it would be. Older chinese generations do this a lot, i remember growing up my grandparents would put leftover out in the open, freeze food for so long, and eat expired food (we even have specific recipe for rotten egg, which i refuse to eat) It's sad cus they got those habit from the poverty they went through.
Oh it's not just the Chinese culture but anybody who went through the depression in the United States was that bad too as a nurse who did private duty and homes Oh my God In the '80s and '90s you would find these people with crap in their refrigerators that they ate that had mold in it. It would just totally freak you out I remember going to this one house and I was trying to clean out her fridge before she would eat any of it and she grabbed this thing of Cool whip that had mold in it and she was trying to eat it saying it's still good and I'm like no it's not She says well it's not your money that got spent on it and I don't want you wasting it I cannot tell you how many of these people who grew up during the depression where people starve to death that is not something they talk about but they did. This is how bad it was in Cincinnati Ohio You slowly went from living in a house or an apartment to where you were maybe renting a room to you ended up in an abandoned car and when you no longer can pay for the space in the car he lives in a cardboard box and when you knew that you were finally at the end of your life you would walk up this hill that was a park and at the top of the hill you would lay down and you would die and then they would come and pick up your body That's how it was in Cincinnati during the Great Depression. So these people had such bad habits because they were living in destitution during the Great Depression rural people didn't suffer like the people who lived in a cities and so many people disappear during the depression who never ever showed up again they just died on the wayside You think the grapes are broth was a made-up story No that crap that's in that book is very true.
i have a philippino friend that will cook a stew-sort of dish, with rice, and leave it on the back of the stove for a whole week. when he wants some, he turns on the burner and heats it all up, eats what he wants, then lets it cool back down. FOR A WEEK. i don't know how he's still alive.
Inuit babies were fed spoiled meat. By the time they were adults, their body had already developed immunity to it. Me thinks our bodies are more adaptable to the environment at a young age.
As a scientist specializing in nutrition, I can tell you that freezing the noodles for a year was not the problem. The process of freezing prevents bacteria and food spoilage, no matter how long the food is frozen. Food in the freezer for a long time can certainly change in taste, colour and texture, but it will not give you food poisoning. This food must have had bacteria before it was put in the freezer, or it was left out to defrost and then bacteria started to grow. If is best to always defrost food in the refrigerator, even if it takes a day or two.
My mom would buy fried chicken and keep it on the counter overnight or sitting in the oven in the box it came in. I'd never eat it the next day but she would finish it all. I don't know how she survived doing that for so many years.
Some of the worst food poisoning I’ve ever had, was from grain-based foods. Like rice or wheat. People usually pay plenty of attention to caring about.meat when thinking of food poisoning. But ANY food can give you food poisoning. Any food can get bacteria or fungus and cause food poisoning. So idiots often leave out grain-based foods for too long-like rice or pasta-and it gets bad bacteria/fungus and gives food poisoning.
This is a good case presentation highlighting that particular condition. Might also be a reason why in the Philippines, there are mortalities after Tuba and Lambanog consumption. These two are liquor made from fermented coconut. Great job for this upload! 🙏🏻
Not even a full 30 seconds in to this video and all I needed to read was "noodles". He's made videos about bad noodles, bad rice, and bad spaghetti/pasta before. Just spared 24 minutes from my life. Ty.
In the chinese reporting the surviving son said his mom took the frozen noodles out of the fridge, leftit outside for a few days before cooking it due to lack of space in the fridge. edit: this was from the news media from an interview with one of the survivors after the incident so it might not be included in the medical report which probably why chubbyemu didn't include it here's the text from the original report: 据张先生介绍，在东北三省，酸汤子是比较常见的食物，餐馆专门有卖。当时聚餐中毒的9个人中，他只认识姑姑姑父以及父母，“但姑姑姑父在当天就去世了”。据他后来了解，当天聚餐的其他人都是远房亲戚，多年未见。 他说，出事后，当时没吃酸汤子的三个年轻人中，有一人曾向他表示，酸汤子是她母亲做的，因为冰箱放不下，其母亲就把冷冻过的酸汤子从冰箱里拿出来，放在阴凉潮湿的地方放了几天
I recently found out that Chinese have space for actual dishwashers and fill the space with a totally useless dish warmer. The woman has to actually wash the dishes in the sink and then for no reason at all put them in the warmer.
@@Drew-Dastardly it might not be a dish warmer, but a disinfecter that heats it up to very hot tempertures. dishwahsers does this at end of the cycle too
The kid, ace, who ate the chips is going to be scarred for the rest of his life😔 At least he is alive, poor dude… But I cant believe he just lost all 4 of his own family members. How Ironic life can be. Chips could be healthier than noodles🍜
Not fully right.. they ate the corn noodle year ago and were fine.. it just the mother did not make new fermented noodle and used last year stock that make them suffered..
@@phaedrapage4217Bro whiskey, unless it contains methanol, is fine. Ethanol is genuinely poison not just for us but also for bacteria. As long as it wasn't distilled by an amateur you have nothing to fear. Alcohol was actually not just consumed in history for its properties as a drug. It was simply safer to consume than water. It was diluted making the water used for the dilution safe to drink. Just remember not anything that's a poison for us is also a poison for bacteria. But it's easy to tell what is. Ethanol dries things up, that's common knowledge which means it basically rips cells open. Other examples of the same effect are sugar and salt which are also disinfectants.
No whiskey, daum. The issue, mom likely had a lump of frozen dough which took ages to unfreeze and largely enough time for malicious bacteria to work and likely it stayed in fridge undecided if cook it or not after first dinner till she decided to hurl it to freezer. Especially due to unfreezing stuff on air makes things humid so extra good for bacterias to work. My guess even that dish would be totally fine frozen even for 50 years if process all dough into noodles before boiling final stage and freeze them like that.
I got SO lucky. In college, i was super poor and realised i left a frozen chimichunga burrito 2 DAYS in my moms car. I couldnt afford to waste it and didnt study food safety. It smelled like old dorritos but i microwaved the meaty burrito. I felt fine but imagine...i couldve ended like this family. God was truly with me!!
It wasn't home made (so it was probably almost bacteria free when you bought it), it wasn't ever intentionally fermented (so no chance of a lot of possible toxins). You could still have died of botulism poisoning, so... glad you aren't going to repeat that trick... but the risk was never as high as leaving a fermented corn dish out on the counter to thaw (some other commenters figured out which case it was and why it happened)
Been there before. Left a plate of ribs in the car from the night before. Remembered them around lunch time the next day during my shift. Knowing what I know know I would just go hungry.
I can't imagine the guilt, fear, anger, and sadness that the eldest son went through to see and experience everyone else in his immediate family die. I hope he's doing okay. Reading the case study, 9 people died in this case. Heartbreaking. Edit: The surviving son is playing himself! That's amazing. So strong.
Yeah and it had happened before. I looked it up too and found a case in Africa where 75 died and over 200 got sick. Scary. and very hard for that young man, especially since he didn't like those noodles to begin with .
I feel so extremely sorry for the single survivour. I cant imagine how long it takes to get over a trauma like this. I wish him all the very best for his future.
@@Keepskatin Be nice! Of course it will always be there but one does get over it to a certain point to function, if not, you would be wailing every day, every hour for the rest of your life.
@@SouthernBelle67Be nice. Nobody ever gets over something like this. Have empathy. Have compassion. Be nice. Stop this. Never do this again. So apologize.
I remember my high school science teacher doing this scenario with us in biology, with some PNG tribespeople who would eat parts of the dead, including the brain Including in one outbreak the BSE like virus contained within
For anyone unaware, the freezing itself isn’t a problem, it’s how it is handled. A news article posted elsewhere in the comments explained it was left to thaw on the kitchen counter, then eventually put into the fridge, then days later it was prepared and consumed. Even without this particular fermented corn toxin, the family would have likely suffered from food poisoning at the very least.
Correct, never thaw food on the kitchen counter. Always thaw it in the fridge, where the food will always be lower than 5°c. That way you are sure that no bacteria have contaminated the food. If you are in a hurry, you can thaw it in a microwave oven, but make sure to cook it immediately after.
@@joshmerchant8737 probs true. i would think as long as the item you are thawing isn't massive then it should be fine as the frozen parts will keep the non frozen parts cool. As long as you dont forget about it then i would think it would be fine. Either way thawing in the fridge will give you a better result.
man could you imagine? being all happy and cheery with your family only for a few hours to pass and they're all dead from the 1 food item you hate? would make me hate that dish even more.
Coming from an Asian family, I know for sure that Asian parents likely don't take food safety very seriously. They often leave dishes cooked for lunch out at room temperature to be reheated for dinner 7-8 hours later with only a basket covering the top to keep flies away or leave cooked rice overnight in the rice cooker. When I tell them to put it in the fridge, they come up with excuses like how the food tastes off if it's refrigerated and then reheated or how Asians have been doing this for centuries and never had any problems. I think it might have to do with Eastern medicine having no emphasis on germs and the toxins they produce and most older Asians still trusting Eastern medicine more.
My husband is Chinese and his momma is like this. I just go behind her and refrigerate everything she leaves out lol I just tell her the cats will get it because we have three cats. lol
My former Asian boyfriend's mother would also leave rice out and food in pans for days... It sounds stupid, I know, but although I thought it one day I'm bound to get sick and die, I ate it because I didn't want to be rude...
" doing this for centuries and never had any problems " yeah, of course, the dead ones aren't alive to tell the histories you can't have any problem if you're dead !
Pretty sure that is just the typical "we've doing it this ways for years" that you see literally everywhere for everything. Cars, programming, carpentry, music, trying to get someone to update the menu for a restaurant, how you should be cutting the grass on the lawn, etc. People can have a pretty huge obsession with tradition and "this is how we have always done it"
We are in my wife's West African country, where products made from fermented corn are a staple starch. She is not aware of any "common knowledge" pertaining to food poisoning from these fermented products. Given the relatively unsophisticated* methods food preservation practiced by some people some of the time, it makes me wonder why the problems demonstrated in this video are unknown or at least not common. * e.g. instead of refrigerating leftovers, they are kept on a stove top and reheated periodically.
Well, I don't know for sure since I don't live in such an area, but I reason such incidents do occur, but the cause is not so easily discovered by people with much less access to high level medical information and facilities. In the most developed regions of the world, even very isolated communities can have a body examined professionally if the cause of death is unknown.
You need to freeze food immediately. Notice the video shows Fresh cooked noodles being made and frozen While OP repeats "Frozen Leftover Noodles" again and again. If you going to freeze leftover, heat it to at least 160°F for at least 3 minutes. A full boil or microwave Fermenting noodles is a whole new ball game. Fermenting relies on microorganisms to convert sugars.
Correct, and a news article posted elsewhere in the comments explained it was left to thaw on the kitchen counter, then eventually put into the fridge, then days later it was prepared and consumed. Even without this particular fermented corn toxin, the family would have likely suffered from food poisoning at the very least.
@@MsLemon42 I have tried and tried to make my husband stop doing this. He doesn't want to put hot food directly into the fridge or freezer, for some reason. While I am starting to freak out more and more. We have been fine thus far, but it only takes one time... I'm looking forward to the winter, when he at least leaves the food outside to cool down. Better than leaving it inside the warm house to cool down.
@@Elora445 please don't put hot food in the fridge or freezer. It raises the temperature of the fridge/freezer which in turn might cause the microbes to grow faster and frozen food to thaw (and it consumes more electricity). The best way to prevent microbial growth is to cool the food quickly outside the fridge and then put it in (I use cold/cooling plates meant for catering).
Whoa these last two comments are dangerously misguided. Why do people speak so adamantly about things they don't really know about? Do NOT ever let cooked food get to "room temperature." That is the ideal temperature for food-born pathogens to grow. It is absolutely far safer to put hot food in the fridge than it is to just let it sit out and cool down. Your fridge controls its temperature - if you put something hot in there it will simply work harder to equalize the temperature in a short period of time. It is extremely unlikely that putting hot food in the fridge will lower the temperature of anything in the fridge enough to be of concern unless you put it directly on top of or squeezed next to something else. Best case scenario is to create an ice bath to cool down any leftovers quickly. However, simply putting them in the fridge when still warm will generally be fine.
I dont think its just fermented products. I made corn grits one time from a package bought at an asian supermarket. I felt nauseous every time i ate it like i felt sick, I suspect some kind of bacteria that couldnt be killed. The same happened with coucous another time. Tried different brands after and felt fine so you gotta go by your taste buds.
This is the most horrifying video on this channel yet. A whole family deceased, just like that. Ace gonna be haunted by this for the rest of his life... poor guy.
I honestly can’t imagine putting one foot in front of the other and keeping on after that. I mean. Its bad enough they went from Normal day to gone before the sun set. But to wake up the next day and realize it wasn’t a dream…
The actual case report is even worse than what we are presented with in this video. "On October 4, a total of 12 persons involving 5 families gathered for lunch and dinner. At around 8∶00 am on October 5, the 12 persons had breakfast together and left separately. Among them, 9 persons consumed the sour soup , while 3 did not and all the 12 persons had consumed the other food items. The 9 persons then successively developed gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. Finally, all 9 cases died after treatment."
When I was a child, I ate a chicken sandwich that was raw in the middle and got incredibly sick. That was enough to scare me for life. I always check food temps, and always am very aware of cross contamination. I follow a strict rule- if in doubt, throw it out. It's hard, especially when food is so expensive, and my family (whom I cook for) tease me all the time about my paranoia around food poisoning. But tragedies like these are so sad- I will take the teasing over the chance of making anyone I love sick. Great and informative video as always. Everyone, please take care and be safe ❤
I'm picky about food safety too. Last night I threw away a package of meatballs because the color was off. Luckily, I had another that looked normal. People I work with will eat food that's been sitting out for 5 or 6 hours and I'm like, don't call me in if yall get sick. 😅
anyone who has never had REAL food poisoning doesnt know why you dont want to get it. "its just a stomachache!" when in reality even the more mild ones will leave you in agony on the toilet for a week.
@@CynthiaMcCraw 5-6 hours is really still in the acceptable range, or at least on the edge (this is all on the absolute safest side). assuming the food was cooked properly to begin with (most food poisoning cases are a combination of BOTH, not throughly cooking the food as well as not controlling how long it has been "in the danger zone" 40f-140f. once properly cooked food reaches below 140 internally, it has about 6 hours "in the danger zone". the 6 hours ideally being used to get the food below 40f (it ideally is supposed to be below 70 in 4 iirc). as long as you are cooking your food properly and are careful not to cross contaminate, 5-6 hours is not really dangerous. reheating food past 165f is another good way to be careful, but it wont "fix" food that was already dangerous. I would mainly apply this to things you cooked yourself, because you cant trust a random restaurant to not have contaminated it or undercooked it. perfectly normal for meatballs and ground beef to oxidize (ground meat has lots of surface area for this to happen), and turn a little green even. still perfectly safe, by itself. the same will happen to steak at a slower rate. there is a point where it would affect the taste, but you would smell it long before that becomes a problem. though as a note smell has no direct bearing on dangerous bacteria being present in food.
Whoa so I watch documentaries and stuff on yt at 1.25 speed but his voice becomes robotic at 12:00 anyone else notice this? Replaying at normal speed sounds fine.
it would have been great to learn what the growing conditions for the bacterium are... fermented corn is consumed in large quantities in Mexico though. Corn tortillas are produced from corn cooked in an alkaline solution, it is then left overnight to ferment
Unfortunately, the conditions that cause B. gladioli to produce bongkrekic acid aren't well-characterized. Sometimes, the bacteria can grow and not produce toxin. It's also super difficult to detect the toxin and the bacteria (there have only been 3000 known cases), so many people might be poisoned and recover before reporting. There's a source in the description "Bongkrekic Acid and Burkholderia gladioli pathovar cocovenenans: Formidable Foe and Ascending Threat to Food Safety", published in 2023, that summarizes the state of research. There are some factors that seem interesting, like salt content, acidity, and spices, but it's not clear why certain food preparations don't make the toxin.
maybe here, I found out never let your wet "carb-item" sit out all day (bad bacteria), and I even suspect that bit of cooked rice if its over a week old in the fridge now.
@@bellemorelock4924 Thankfully I have thrown out all carb food except fruit for health reasons. I only eat meat, eggs and fruit now, so I don't have to worry about that.
This one made me tear up a bit He lost his entire family in the blink of an eye after what was supposed to be a wholesome and happy day. Terrible. Just terrible. I am so sorry, Ace.
are those stories true? why it has some specific details like "he saw the floor spinning" how would they know? "she was uncomfortable with the coworker" why the random detail?
@@user-yd3rs2mg4c he changes the facts on everything likely to avoid legal issues for monetizing his stories, it was really a family of 12 and there were 3 survivors. still sad though.
I always keep in mind that cooking kills bacteria but doesn’t remove toxins released by bacteria. I never take chances. I have a list on my fridge of how long foods can be refrigerated. If I don’t get leftovers into the fridge within 2 hours, I throw them out. I’m already disabled due to chronic illness. I don’t need to give myself food poisoning too. I feel really bad for the survivor. The survivor guilt must be unbearable.
Corn is native to the Americas, which means no one in Eurasia had access to it until the 16th century at least. It could have become a traditional food in that time period, but it's not an ancestral food. I agree that it's ironic that the only member of the family that survived was the one who ate western junk food.
Food that is full of nutrients is also delicious for bacteria. Food that is devoid of nutrition -- bacteria would literally rather starve to death than eat it
This is honestly one of the most horrifying videos you've posted to date. I cannot imagine how he went on with his life after losing his whole family in such a horrible and painfull way. I really felt like something was up my throat while watching this.
Yep, my father passed away from complications of esophageal cancer when I was 12 years old, he had been sick for a while though. I cannot imagine losing my mom and twin sister.
Indonesian here 🇮🇩. You have just taught me more about Tempe Bongkrek than I've ever known in my life time. First time I heard that a toxin was named after an Indonesian food. I didn't realize it was banned back in 1988.
@@planetfrank1994 Did you mean noodles made from corn flour or the actual dish presented in the video? I've never seen or even heard about sour noodles before this video
@cfcfcfcf I don't think Indonesia have that kind of sour noodle. Look I'm Chinese born and raised in Fujian, never saw sour noodle which is a northeastern Chinese cuisine. Even our maize tasting different.
@@user-qo5eg7ly5u huh, so it's an especially regional thing then. Good to know hahah. And after re-reading his comment, frankie boy there was being a bit paranoid about every "indonesian chinese noodles", so i was asking the wrong question anyway. I guess both mine and his comprehension skill need a lot of work lol.
Did you specially hire these actors for this video? These are any old stock videos lol. Either way, it's amazing quality and really adds and helps provides understanding. Thank you for your effort dr. Bernard.
That must be absolutely horrible. Imagine the sheer survivor's guilt you would get from being the only one alive in your family. And to know that you survived only out of dumb luck.
An absolute nightmare. To sit with your family, laugh, have what seemed to be a good breakfast just for later that day to lose them all and then be the sole survivor because you didn't like the texture of something is just... wild beyond anybodies imagination. The horror of sitting in the room while your entire family is passing, my heart is so heavy for them all.
Fr why did bro catch a stray bc he wore shorts 💀, and why is the fact he was there even in the report. Imagine SC's in her deathbed and her last words are about how her coworker wears shorts to work and how she hates him for it
A young adult, originally from remote Peru, growing up in US, came to stay at our house in UK a few years ago. Meat leftovers from dinner accidentally weren't refrigerated overnight. In the morning, they were happy to eat it for breakfast and I tried to explain they shouldn't. They were used to not wasting food and money was very tight, so they couldn't understand my point. I'm sure I seemed wasteful and careless. In the end, they ate it and didn't get sick, but this story reminds us they sometimes people are lucky and others aren't. Obviously not having enough money/food is a big factor in people eating stuff when they should discard it, but also culture, tradition, how you were raised, also play a big part.
Did that for the past 2 days. Ground beef was in the fridge for ever a week. Started to get moldy. I removed the top viable mold and ate it. I'm unemployed currently. Receiving government assistance, SNAP benefits. I spent too much money to throw away meat that taste and smells normal.
That can literally unalive you. Why are you rolling the dice? You can cook the meat, freeze leftovers, and heat it back up when you're ready to eat more. Don't be so foolish and lazy...@@myhandlehasbeenmishandled
@@myhandlehasbeenmishandled It's a common mistake to think the visibly moldy part of the food can be cut off. All parts of the moldy food are equally moldy. The part that looks moldy only appears because the mold has run out of places to spread to.
Just gotta say at around 6:20 is the most CLEAR, concise and fast description of insulin function I ever heard. Literally didnt fully get it my whole life until that moment lol
This one hit different, feel terrible for the sole survivor of the family. Thank you for spreading awareness, it truly is life saving 🙏🏼 everyone stay safe and don’t eat suspicious food 🥲
I've got in the habit of leaving a container half filled with water in my freezer. After the container freezes I turn it on its side. This will tell me if the power to my freezer has lapsed melting the container of water.
I cannot imagine how that woman would've felt knowing her funeral beer caused dozens of more funerals. I suppose it's a small mercy she never had to face that guilt...
This would be my worst nightmare. Eating a nice meal and getting along with everyone, only to get a phone call later that day in the middle of work from one of your family members in a health crisis and driving back to help. Then to arrive and find everyone else you had enjoyed the morning with are in critical condition too. Your younger siblings, along with your parents, all dying on the same day. With how quickly Ace got to the hospital, and how no one pressured him to eat the special homemade traditional meal that morning makes me feel like they were a very close family of kind people. I hope he got the support he needed to work through such a tragedy. I don't know if I could
We eat tempeh almost everyday. We even have special dishes from left over tempeh. We eat it as traditional dish in some part of our country. It s super delicious and we pass this recipe from one generation to next generation.
One thing to remember is that you should only defrost frozen items in the fridge or while cooking them, never by leaving out on the counter. If you do need to defrost something before cooking it and you don't have to do it in the fridge, then you can defrost by placing the item in a bowl and running COLD water over it until it is thawed. Never use warm or hot water for this purpose. Also, if such a need arises, consider just making something else that day and thawing the item in the fridge overnight.
Never understood how people thaw stuff in the fridge overnight. I put something there to thaw and it’s still frozen solid after 24 hours. Do people specifically set their fridge to higher temperature or something?
Yer, just buy food that you plan eat next three or four days. I have small refrigerate and I do not eat big meal as well. I go there to buy food twice a week. Give priority what I already have as I want shrimp but no one person size, only family or business size. So basically I had to eat shrimp for few days in rows before I can buy different meat. Edited: I do not cook all shrimps at once but divide them. Most of them is on freeze then by one by one it was move to refrigerate to be thawed. I do not want risk thaws it in room temperature as I do forget to cook it sometimes (I do skip meal pretty often, not my intention) so when I am ready to cook, I just take small amounts that already thawed in refrigerator which take longer to complete thawing but more safer.
@@MrHighRawI'm not sure but in many cases, depending on the laws of the country, if he wasn't already written in an official will, the government seizes the property. Maybe the parents hadn't got around to writing a will yet. Or sometimes the person has to pay a very large amount for it. I could be wrong though. ❤
@@霞谷 There always is a subjective bright side to anything for anyone looking hard enough (it's something really common in my place; I think it's part of my people's coping mechanism) and arguably objective ones too. But I don't think a person in this kind of situation will be able to find it as it's too much of a tragedy.
Is there a way to prevent this toxin from infecting people so these traditional fermented dishes can still be enjoyed? Would washing the corn and coconuts before preparation help?
It's time to get my monthly dose of fearing my leftovers
i didn't eat leftovers before i started watching this channel and i definitely dont know
You should be fine just dont have over 2 weeks leftovers
@@aarewitwo weeks is really, REALLY pushing it, unless it’s frozen of course (ik the vid is about frozen food but generally if stuff is frozen you’re good for prolonged time). Even a week is pretty long for prepared food to sit
I got food poisoning a few days ago. Feeling better now, but here's hoping I'm not in the next video ;)
@EddieBurke 3 days is my limit for leftovers in the fridge
Fuck, man. What a nightmare. Imagine you lose your whole family to one joyous get-together breakfast because of a mistake and only you lived because you didn't like the food. Nature is ruthless
Absolutely merciless and intractable.
@@paulban889 I cannot find myself living in a time where pain killer was not invented yet.
@@JoséBrozTito but what does that have to do with nature being merciless and intractable?
@@DaleDix you obviously dont know what natrul selection is if your using it to compare to this scenario
God is a bastard
Home boy has actors now and hosptial sets. That's insane.
Go Chubby Emu! Proud of you.
He’s had actors for a while tbh, like when he had Justin Whang in a video.
3M subscribers... he sure can afford a whole team.
He went to China a while ago for them
SC: collapses to the floor in visible pain
Her awkward co-worker: just walkin past her to the fridge, totally chill
That’s what happens when you hate on his shorts 😂
Imagine eating a pack of crisps for breakfast being the thing that saved you from a horrific health crisis.
Crisis? Those people are dead Burke!
Seriously. Healthy food?
I'm not sure that would be a comforting thought after losing your entire family in a single day
i once ate a pack of chips and was sick for roughly 24h
crisps?
"found not alive in her house" followed by a graphic description of exactly how she became "not alive" really drives home how absurd the algorithm is.
I am so tired of not being able to use perfectly good words we've used in some cases for hundreds of years. All with perfectly good meanings. I dispise the unalive one. As if anyone isn't aware it's a stupid substitute for a perfectly good word.
Or it's used and you think "on purpose, accidently, from old age." We have perfectly good words for all of that.
Edit: had to correct because when I hit send unalive became unalike.
And...it just did it again.
@@pmc2999 Yea, I'm sick of it too.
@@pmc2999 yep i'm tired too. i've been banned once from youtube for 24 hours because i refused to be censored. the worst part is that now there's an AI reading every post and you can't even camouflage words very well because the goddamn AI is very good at catching disguised "no-no words".
@@pmc2999 it's Orwellian double speak
@@GodofVengence "Good Speak"(tm)
I used to watch you all of the time with my ex-girlfriend. We dated for 4 years and were friends for almost a decade. We'd sit down and watch a video or two while we ate. Making jokes like *plays frozen hotsauce as soon as she takes a bite from her bacon* She was in the medical field and I just enjoyed learning, so it was a great time together. I'd ask questions about terminology i didn't fully understand, and she'd explain it in deeper detail to me. I started memorizing terms and even made a game of it. Every time you'd say a medical term we'd press pause and I'd guess the meaning of it. I was actually becoming quite good at it lol.
Overall it was just a wholesome good time.
After a bad breakup, I just couldn't watch these anymore. I would get flooded with happy memories from the past and then immediately become sad and depressed because I missed her very much. After almost a year, this is the first time that I was able to enjoy your content the way I used to. I really love your content and it continues to bring joy into my life.
The very real lessons that are taught here and the empathy for those who are portrayed in the video.
Just wanted to say thanks for your contribution to the world, medical field and all of your viewers' lives.
Thanks so much for sharing. I am glad you’re able to enjoy the videos again. I’ve been in similar before and for me it was a time very difficult too and hard to describe in words. Stay strong brother, bright future!
What a bizarre comment
@@byunniq9060it’s not bizarre at all?
@@byunniq9060yes bizarre,but the doctor likes it and feels his pain.
HEARTBREAKER
“S.C. didn't like her co-worker, especially when he wore shorts” 😂
When u rlly hate a coworker that’s the kind of shit thatll piss you right off 😂
I like how he walked past her after she'd already collapsed
@@vgtgoatHe's based
Lmaooo I can stand my co-workers breathing.
4:46 Lady collapses onto the floor and the dude just walks right past her. Geez, no wonder nobody at the office likes him
Dude is a psychopath 😢
Lady was fat, nobody cared about her 😅
And he wears shorts you can't forget that
He's really giving the bacteria some tough competition on being least likable.
Yeah, cool story telling that is very clever..
DC=Dad Character; MC=Mom Character; BC=Brother Character; SC=Sister Character; Ace=Fighter Pilot
Top gun soundtrack plays*
@raphmaster23 the most main character name to have ever main character named
@@the.alxperience 🤣
underrated comment right here folks, get to upvoting
@@the.alxperience I will never be able to hear "Take my breath away" and "Danger zone" without thinking of those movies
I'm afraid of my chair killing me. I'm afraid of my tea killing me. I'm now afraid of corn killing. Everything can kill me.
Just eat good American processed foods with seed oils and not weird Asian fermented crap.
@@Orlando_SteveProcessed food is bad too
@@Seineir_playz I've never heard of anyone dropping dead after eating potato chips.
I wouldn't say processed food is healthy, people die from it too, it's just way too common just like heart attacks or smth
@@Zetobro okay
I really hope you see this, I worked at a interactive aquarium and "zoo". The corporation did not take the complaints of the fish room employees about the leaking ozone machine after 9 hours a day for 6 months of breathing in this ozone the girl started coughing up blood and chunks of her lung. I really hope one day you do a piece on the effects of ozone poisoning.
Ooooh, I've never heard of this happening before. How did the parts of her lungs start to come up? I think what your talking about would be a blood clot that looks like a cast of her lung. She couldn't cough up parts of her lung because their wouldn't be pressure to cough with. 🤔
Omg 😱😱😱 that's horrible! I hope she can recover from this? And sue the employers mercilessly
We're moving from stock footage to full actors reproducing literature events in hospital beds with hospital equipment. Does Chunbyemu own a mock Emergency room warehouse set at this point?
pretty sure chubbyemu has been using actors for like over a year or more
He showed his cinema level gear on his second channel. Production level is through the roof!
It appears to have been filmed in China as well lol
@@Sopsy_Hallow yeah but not with a full hospital set
It's actual equipment, he's a medical entrepreneur on the side.
As an organic chemist, if you showed me the structure of the toxin without context, i would never have guessed it was bioactive, let alone so profoundly toxic. Wow.
is it usually easy to tell?
@@IamSentient314Not a biochemist, but compounds that react to our systems or tissues tend to resemble one another in shape.
Since this looks like a fatty acid with a few things sticking off it, it looks unassuming.
@@IamSentient314many toxins will share some sort of functional group or shape which indicates some route of toxicity. This one doesn't have anything that would indicate such a high toxicity and if I didn't know any better I would assume it's some metabolic intermediate
I'm only a first year biomed student, but it really does just look like some regular fatty acid I haven't seen before
Not a biochemist but had 8 units of biochem as a Clinical Lab Scientist; why is it when I see hexagonal compounds my brain thinks cancer or toxin?
Poor Ace! We all lose our families, but not all at once! His whole support system gone! Who grieved with him?😢
as soon as i saw the all asian casting I immediately know which case it would be. Older chinese generations do this a lot, i remember growing up my grandparents would put leftover out in the open, freeze food for so long, and eat expired food (we even have specific recipe for rotten egg, which i refuse to eat) It's sad cus they got those habit from the poverty they went through.
Like before the 80’s when the entire country was extremely poor?
Oh it's not just the Chinese culture but anybody who went through the depression in the United States was that bad too as a nurse who did private duty and homes Oh my God In the '80s and '90s you would find these people with crap in their refrigerators that they ate that had mold in it. It would just totally freak you out I remember going to this one house and I was trying to clean out her fridge before she would eat any of it and she grabbed this thing of Cool whip that had mold in it and she was trying to eat it saying it's still good and I'm like no it's not She says well it's not your money that got spent on it and I don't want you wasting it I cannot tell you how many of these people who grew up during the depression where people starve to death that is not something they talk about but they did. This is how bad it was in Cincinnati Ohio You slowly went from living in a house or an apartment to where you were maybe renting a room to you ended up in an abandoned car and when you no longer can pay for the space in the car he lives in a cardboard box and when you knew that you were finally at the end of your life you would walk up this hill that was a park and at the top of the hill you would lay down and you would die and then they would come and pick up your body That's how it was in Cincinnati during the Great Depression. So these people had such bad habits because they were living in destitution during the Great Depression rural people didn't suffer like the people who lived in a cities and so many people disappear during the depression who never ever showed up again they just died on the wayside You think the grapes are broth was a made-up story No that crap that's in that book is very true.
But they survived
i have a philippino friend that will cook a stew-sort of dish, with rice, and leave it on the back of the stove for a whole week. when he wants some, he turns on the burner and heats it all up, eats what he wants, then lets it cool back down. FOR A WEEK. i don't know how he's still alive.
Inuit babies were fed spoiled meat. By the time they were adults, their body had already developed immunity to it. Me thinks our bodies are more adaptable to the environment at a young age.
As a scientist specializing in nutrition, I can tell you that freezing the noodles for a year was not the problem. The process of freezing prevents bacteria and food spoilage, no matter how long the food is frozen. Food in the freezer for a long time can certainly change in taste, colour and texture, but it will not give you food poisoning. This food must have had bacteria before it was put in the freezer, or it was left out to defrost and then bacteria started to grow. If is best to always defrost food in the refrigerator, even if it takes a day or two.
Someone posted above that the wife had left it out on the counter for a couple of days due to a lack of fridge space.
@@raufus3006 That will create problems for sure.
@@maryoleary2037Imagine how many peasants died back then from doing that.. insane
My mom would buy fried chicken and keep it on the counter overnight or sitting in the oven in the box it came in. I'd never eat it the next day but she would finish it all. I don't know how she survived doing that for so many years.
@@DonJ.1989 I know so many people that do this, pizza too. Freaks me out.
It's ALWAYS the leftover pasta.
Some of the worst food poisoning I’ve ever had, was from grain-based foods. Like rice or wheat.
People usually pay plenty of attention to caring about.meat when thinking of food poisoning. But ANY food can give you food poisoning. Any food can get bacteria or fungus and cause food poisoning.
So idiots often leave out grain-based foods for too long-like rice or pasta-and it gets bad bacteria/fungus and gives food poisoning.
This is a good case presentation highlighting that particular condition. Might also be a reason why in the Philippines, there are mortalities after Tuba and Lambanog consumption. These two are liquor made from fermented coconut.
Great job for this upload! 🙏🏻
It's worse when you find out it was 12 family members, 9 dead and only 3 youngest survived because they did not like the noodles.
Spoiler much omg
Jesus fucking Christ, that's horrific. Those poor surviving family members. :( I'd be too terrified to eat noodles ever again.
Not even a full 30 seconds in to this video and all I needed to read was "noodles". He's made videos about bad noodles, bad rice, and bad spaghetti/pasta before. Just spared 24 minutes from my life. Ty.
This needs to go higher.
“I don’t need to watch these because I saw other videos about bad noodles.”
What?
In the chinese reporting the surviving son said his mom took the frozen noodles out of the fridge, leftit outside for a few days before cooking it due to lack of space in the fridge.
edit: this was from the news media from an interview with one of the survivors after the incident so it might not be included in the medical report which probably why chubbyemu didn't include it
here's the text from the original report:
据张先生介绍，在东北三省，酸汤子是比较常见的食物，餐馆专门有卖。当时聚餐中毒的9个人中，他只认识姑姑姑父以及父母，“但姑姑姑父在当天就去世了”。据他后来了解，当天聚餐的其他人都是远房亲戚，多年未见。
他说，出事后，当时没吃酸汤子的三个年轻人中，有一人曾向他表示，酸汤子是她母亲做的，因为冰箱放不下，其母亲就把冷冻过的酸汤子从冰箱里拿出来，放在阴凉潮湿的地方放了几天
that makes way more sense😅
I recently found out that Chinese have space for actual dishwashers and fill the space with a totally useless dish warmer. The woman has to actually wash the dishes in the sink and then for no reason at all put them in the warmer.
😲😬😱
@@Drew-Dastardly What's a dish warmer?
@@Drew-Dastardly it might not be a dish warmer, but a disinfecter that heats it up to very hot tempertures. dishwahsers does this at end of the cycle too
Guys. Dont eat pasta left in fridge for a few days. Mold grows so fast in rice and pasta.
Thanks for this information ❤
Egg fried rice only supposed to be one day old rice.
Portion control helps you reduce the need to store such items for later consumption as well and saves you money
Is that a challenge?
0:08 All bosses No Damage
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What that even mean lol
@@volitiveclover 😐
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"At autopsy DC ☹️ MC 😢 BC 😫 and SC 😭..."
I feel so bad for Ace.
yea that line was nothing we heard before on this channel. at first i was like there ok dad wasn't able to make it but in the end, oh but all of them?
Honestly I knew they all would be gone after hearing the bongkrekic acid.
That shit is deadly
I don’t think ace was in the autopsy because he just ate potato chips instead of
The kid, ace, who ate the chips is going to be scarred for the rest of his life😔
At least he is alive, poor dude…
But I cant believe he just lost all 4 of his own family members. How Ironic life can be.
Chips could be healthier than noodles🍜
@@Z_kun11 I think the real case this video was based on had 9 family members and all of them passed away due to eating the food, unfortunately.
Note to self. Do not consume fermented corn or coconut in any form ever.
Yeah that older coconut drink episode was really scary.
Not fully right.. they ate the corn noodle year ago and were fine.. it just the mother did not make new fermented noodle and used last year stock that make them suffered..
So no whiskey? Come on. I gotta have a few sips every now and then to keep me sane.
@@phaedrapage4217Bro whiskey, unless it contains methanol, is fine. Ethanol is genuinely poison not just for us but also for bacteria. As long as it wasn't distilled by an amateur you have nothing to fear.
Alcohol was actually not just consumed in history for its properties as a drug. It was simply safer to consume than water. It was diluted making the water used for the dilution safe to drink.
Just remember not anything that's a poison for us is also a poison for bacteria. But it's easy to tell what is.
Ethanol dries things up, that's common knowledge which means it basically rips cells open.
Other examples of the same effect are sugar and salt which are also disinfectants.
No whiskey, daum.
The issue, mom likely had a lump of frozen dough which took ages to unfreeze and largely enough time for malicious bacteria to work and likely it stayed in fridge undecided if cook it or not after first dinner till she decided to hurl it to freezer. Especially due to unfreezing stuff on air makes things humid so extra good for bacterias to work.
My guess even that dish would be totally fine frozen even for 50 years if process all dough into noodles before boiling final stage and freeze them like that.
I got SO lucky. In college, i was super poor and realised i left a frozen chimichunga burrito 2 DAYS in my moms car. I couldnt afford to waste it and didnt study food safety. It smelled like old dorritos but i microwaved the meaty burrito. I felt fine but imagine...i couldve ended like this family. God was truly with me!!
I think what saved you is the heavy amount of grease with that, and lots of salt.
It wasn't home made (so it was probably almost bacteria free when you bought it), it wasn't ever intentionally fermented (so no chance of a lot of possible toxins).
You could still have died of botulism poisoning, so... glad you aren't going to repeat that trick... but the risk was never as high as leaving a fermented corn dish out on the counter to thaw (some other commenters figured out which case it was and why it happened)
Been there before. Left a plate of ribs in the car from the night before. Remembered them around lunch time the next day during my shift. Knowing what I know know I would just go hungry.
Chubbyemu has convinced me that noodles are simply not worth the risk of eating as leftover.
Rice also
I can't imagine the guilt, fear, anger, and sadness that the eldest son went through to see and experience everyone else in his immediate family die. I hope he's doing okay. Reading the case study, 9 people died in this case. Heartbreaking.
Edit: The surviving son is playing himself! That's amazing. So strong.
Yeah and it had happened before. I looked it up too and found a case in Africa where 75 died and over 200 got sick. Scary. and very hard for that young man, especially since he didn't like those noodles to begin with .
@@angelachouinard4581 imagine asking him about those noodles in like 40 years,
you are gonna see a very sad and angry elderly man
My heart goes out to him, too. It's a lot for one person to have to go through.
Imagine the "survivor's guilt".
@@GreedyOrange Agree!
I feel so extremely sorry for the single survivour. I cant imagine how long it takes to get over a trauma like this. I wish him all the very best for his future.
You never get over something like this....🙄
This was based on a true story where 9 out of 12 extended family members died from poisoning
@@Keepskatin Be nice! Of course it will always be there but one does get over it to a certain point to function, if not, you would be wailing every day, every hour for the rest of your life.
... why would you get over this? What a strange post.
@@SouthernBelle67Be nice. Nobody ever gets over something like this. Have empathy. Have compassion. Be nice.
Stop this. Never do this again.
So apologize.
I am only going to eat highly processed junk food from now on.
that's right! good ole big brand FDA approved reliability!
A group of cannibals ate a mans leg, but he was bitten by walkers. This is what happened to their brains.
Good episode 😁
Where is this story
I remember my high school science teacher doing this scenario with us in biology, with some PNG tribespeople who would eat parts of the dead, including the brain
Including in one outbreak the BSE like virus contained within
For anyone unaware, the freezing itself isn’t a problem, it’s how it is handled. A news article posted elsewhere in the comments explained it was left to thaw on the kitchen counter, then eventually put into the fridge, then days later it was prepared and consumed. Even without this particular fermented corn toxin, the family would have likely suffered from food poisoning at the very least.
Correct, never thaw food on the kitchen counter. Always thaw it in the fridge, where the food will always be lower than 5°c. That way you are sure that no bacteria have contaminated the food. If you are in a hurry, you can thaw it in a microwave oven, but make sure to cook it immediately after.
@@MsLemon42 yeah eat what you thaw out on the day it's thawed.
@@edejor i would also suggest thawing it in the fridge. slow as f*ck but safer than thawing at room temp
@@joshmerchant8737 probs true. i would think as long as the item you are thawing isn't massive then it should be fine as the frozen parts will keep the non frozen parts cool. As long as you dont forget about it then i would think it would be fine. Either way thawing in the fridge will give you a better result.
Oh yikes. Always thaw in the fridge and eat immediately. I think it’s crazy how many ppl still think it’s ok to thaw stuff at room temp
man could you imagine? being all happy and cheery with your family only for a few hours to pass and they're all dead from the 1 food item you hate? would make me hate that dish even more.
makes you realize how fragile life truly is
😂😂😂 idky but fuck that made me laugh the way you said that at the end😂
Yes
I feel like that’s the smallest inconvenience but ok
thank you so much for covering this. absolutely WILD
Wow incredible story. This is why your channel is so important it helps make people aware and documents strange cases most people would never know of.
I'm starting to think this TH-cam channel is the spiritual successor to "1000 Ways To Die."
This is a fantastic take.
@@IwishIwasCatnip Thank you. I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers that show.
@Hitherto90 I loved it, it had the most ridiculous scenarios but it was a fun watch for sure.
@@IwishIwasCatnip Surely you've heard of Murphy's Law? What can go wrong will go wrong.
@@Hitherto90Murphy’s Law is the reason why I have severe anxiety.
Coming from an Asian family, I know for sure that Asian parents likely don't take food safety very seriously. They often leave dishes cooked for lunch out at room temperature to be reheated for dinner 7-8 hours later with only a basket covering the top to keep flies away or leave cooked rice overnight in the rice cooker. When I tell them to put it in the fridge, they come up with excuses like how the food tastes off if it's refrigerated and then reheated or how Asians have been doing this for centuries and never had any problems. I think it might have to do with Eastern medicine having no emphasis on germs and the toxins they produce and most older Asians still trusting Eastern medicine more.
My husband is Chinese and his momma is like this. I just go behind her and refrigerate everything she leaves out lol I just tell her the cats will get it because we have three cats. lol
very true, my grandparents leave out a lot of food and leave it out for the night and just reheat it up the next day
My former Asian boyfriend's mother would also leave rice out and food in pans for days... It sounds stupid, I know, but although I thought it one day I'm bound to get sick and die, I ate it because I didn't want to be rude...
" doing this for centuries and never had any problems "
yeah, of course, the dead ones aren't alive to tell the histories
you can't have any problem if you're dead !
Pretty sure that is just the typical "we've doing it this ways for years" that you see literally everywhere for everything. Cars, programming, carpentry, music, trying to get someone to update the menu for a restaurant, how you should be cutting the grass on the lawn, etc.
People can have a pretty huge obsession with tradition and "this is how we have always done it"
Not the guy in shorts walking by SC on the laaying in pain on the floor 😂😭
We are in my wife's West African country, where products made from fermented corn are a staple starch. She is not aware of any "common knowledge" pertaining to food poisoning from these fermented products. Given the relatively unsophisticated* methods food preservation practiced by some people some of the time, it makes me wonder why the problems demonstrated in this video are unknown or at least not common.
* e.g. instead of refrigerating leftovers, they are kept on a stove top and reheated periodically.
Well, I don't know for sure since I don't live in such an area, but I reason such incidents do occur, but the cause is not so easily discovered by people with much less access to high level medical information and facilities. In the most developed regions of the world, even very isolated communities can have a body examined professionally if the cause of death is unknown.
"This acid eliminates yeast but eliminate humans too". I guess we are not that different from fungae.
Don't we share like half our DNA with fungi?
@@Unknown16537 yep
We're not so different, you and me.
@@Unknown16537That and partially Bananas, DNA relations be strange af 😂
@@Unknown16537 Shouldn't we? I mean, at least half of the code for life is probably something like "make a cell." and all life is made of cells.
Just incredibly heartbroken this young man lost his entire family over a breakfast.
In the real-life case, the whole family of 9 didn't survive, according to the document linked in the description.🥲
Sorry it sounded so funny😂
"leftovers", fermented, Rotten sh1t for breakfast
So Lazy
@@jirachi-wishmaker9242 wow... what a fi e specimen of humor you are
@GrazUralKamaz Appreciate it ;) I guess
@@Nachos-sk7od Oh even more sorry to hear that. Poor people.
The title alone made me clean my freezer.
You need to freeze food immediately. Notice the video shows Fresh cooked noodles being made and frozen
While OP repeats "Frozen Leftover Noodles" again and again.
If you going to freeze leftover, heat it to at least 160°F for at least 3 minutes. A full boil or microwave
Fermenting noodles is a whole new ball game. Fermenting relies on microorganisms to convert sugars.
Ironically, preferring unhealthy food saved that kids life
Life is often ironic.
the moral of the story is always eat chips kids!
fermented corn noodles sounds unhealthy too, not to mention potentially lethal.
chips are way more healthy than death noodles.
@@darkshadowsx5949 Do you even know what those words mean?
Ironic.
The fact that it was frozen for a year is irrelevant. It's what happened before or after it was frozen that is important.
Correct, and a news article posted elsewhere in the comments explained it was left to thaw on the kitchen counter, then eventually put into the fridge, then days later it was prepared and consumed. Even without this particular fermented corn toxin, the family would have likely suffered from food poisoning at the very least.
@@MsLemon42
I have tried and tried to make my husband stop doing this. He doesn't want to put hot food directly into the fridge or freezer, for some reason. While I am starting to freak out more and more. We have been fine thus far, but it only takes one time... I'm looking forward to the winter, when he at least leaves the food outside to cool down. Better than leaving it inside the warm house to cool down.
@@Elora445 food needs to get to at least room temperature before being put in, otherwise you're going to warm up the whole fridge
@@Elora445 please don't put hot food in the fridge or freezer. It raises the temperature of the fridge/freezer which in turn might cause the microbes to grow faster and frozen food to thaw (and it consumes more electricity). The best way to prevent microbial growth is to cool the food quickly outside the fridge and then put it in (I use cold/cooling plates meant for catering).
Whoa these last two comments are dangerously misguided. Why do people speak so adamantly about things they don't really know about?
Do NOT ever let cooked food get to "room temperature." That is the ideal temperature for food-born pathogens to grow.
It is absolutely far safer to put hot food in the fridge than it is to just let it sit out and cool down. Your fridge controls its temperature - if you put something hot in there it will simply work harder to equalize the temperature in a short period of time. It is extremely unlikely that putting hot food in the fridge will lower the temperature of anything in the fridge enough to be of concern unless you put it directly on top of or squeezed next to something else.
Best case scenario is to create an ice bath to cool down any leftovers quickly. However, simply putting them in the fridge when still warm will generally be fine.
Beautiful video! I have learnt so much, and the advices can save lives for real
Thank you! Glad you learned from and enjoyed!
Wow nobody cares about this besides the creator?
Nothing gets past these doctors
I love how the coworker in shorts just casually walked past SC while she’s writhing in pain.
I was like who walks past someone on the floor at wor😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
She's fine don't worry 😂
No wonder no one in the office liked him!
Probably that one going to the fridge again
I noticed that too and I was "dude, are you just going past them?"
"This isn't to scare you" - Too late. I'm not eating any fermented corn or coconut dishes.
Fr if someone offers me a dish and it’s fermented corn or coconut I ain’t eating it
😂 they lost me at coconut and fermented anything. Those are just two unappetizing flavours on their own even if perfectly made 🤢
Corn or coconut fermented is a " no thankyou "
@@ThisisFerrariKhanbro? Coconut is a great flavor you are a lone man on this
@@KunaProductions I’m allergic now, but before my allergy developed, I ALWAYS thought it was a weird tasting flavour. It smells great thou
Doesnt food thats been left out taste and smell bad? How did they enjoy it? So sad. Devastating.
I dont think its just fermented products. I made corn grits one time from a package bought at an asian supermarket. I felt nauseous every time i ate it like i felt sick, I suspect some kind of bacteria that couldnt be killed. The same happened with coucous another time. Tried different brands after and felt fine so you gotta go by your taste buds.
This is the most horrifying video on this channel yet. A whole family deceased, just like that. Ace gonna be haunted by this for the rest of his life... poor guy.
even more died on funeral. it's crazy.
More people died during the funerals? Explain.@@Lookingformorefun
@@Lookingformorefun Not this funeral.
I honestly can’t imagine putting one foot in front of the other and keeping on after that. I mean. Its bad enough they went from Normal day to gone before the sun set. But to wake up the next day and realize it wasn’t a dream…
Apparently the actual story this is based on was 4x more people. 12 gathered, 3 young people didn't eat the bad food, 9 did, all 9 died.
The actual case report is even worse than what we are presented with in this video.
"On October 4, a total of 12 persons involving 5 families gathered for lunch and dinner. At around 8∶00 am on October 5, the 12 persons had breakfast together and left separately. Among them, 9 persons consumed the sour soup , while 3 did not and all the 12 persons had consumed the other food items. The 9 persons then successively developed gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. Finally, all 9 cases died after treatment."
Damn
My chills are worse reading that, oh god...
Thanks for the added info. Might be extended family included. Horrible tragedy.
Reading the case it's frightening. The shortest period of death was 20hours after consumption while one managed to survive for 364 hours.
THE FUCK!? ☠️
Ayo, this is just...depressing.
The video was already a tragedy, but this? Holy it's actually so much worse...
wearing shorts to work 😂
just walks by in the background as she's writhing in pain
The actors did a great job in this episode.
When I was a child, I ate a chicken sandwich that was raw in the middle and got incredibly sick. That was enough to scare me for life. I always check food temps, and always am very aware of cross contamination. I follow a strict rule- if in doubt, throw it out. It's hard, especially when food is so expensive, and my family (whom I cook for) tease me all the time about my paranoia around food poisoning. But tragedies like these are so sad- I will take the teasing over the chance of making anyone I love sick. Great and informative video as always. Everyone, please take care and be safe ❤
Amen. I agree 100%. NOTHING is worth poisoning myself or others. I’ve had food poisoning a couple of times. NEVER AGAIN, I HOPE!
I'm picky about food safety too. Last night I threw away a package of meatballs because the color was off. Luckily, I had another that looked normal. People I work with will eat food that's been sitting out for 5 or 6 hours and I'm like, don't call me in if yall get sick. 😅
anyone who has never had REAL food poisoning doesnt know why you dont want to get it. "its just a stomachache!" when in reality even the more mild ones will leave you in agony on the toilet for a week.
@@CynthiaMcCraw 5-6 hours is really still in the acceptable range, or at least on the edge (this is all on the absolute safest side).
assuming the food was cooked properly to begin with (most food poisoning cases are a combination of BOTH, not throughly cooking the food as well as not controlling how long it has been "in the danger zone" 40f-140f. once properly cooked food reaches below 140 internally, it has about 6 hours "in the danger zone". the 6 hours ideally being used to get the food below 40f (it ideally is supposed to be below 70 in 4 iirc). as long as you are cooking your food properly and are careful not to cross contaminate, 5-6 hours is not really dangerous. reheating food past 165f is another good way to be careful, but it wont "fix" food that was already dangerous.
I would mainly apply this to things you cooked yourself, because you cant trust a random restaurant to not have contaminated it or undercooked it. perfectly normal for meatballs and ground beef to oxidize (ground meat has lots of surface area for this to happen), and turn a little green even. still perfectly safe, by itself. the same will happen to steak at a slower rate. there is a point where it would affect the taste, but you would smell it long before that becomes a problem. though as a note smell has no direct bearing on dangerous bacteria being present in food.
@@CynthiaMcCraw yeah, what's with people casually chowing down on break room pot luck left overs, hours later? Grosss.
The actors for the family did a stand up job. Love it!
*STAND-UP
One is even a real family member!
@@Flamsterette What?
@@BenjaminGooseace plays himself
They also did a lie down job
Whoa so I watch documentaries and stuff on yt at 1.25 speed but his voice becomes robotic at 12:00 anyone else notice this? Replaying at normal speed sounds fine.
it would have been great to learn what the growing conditions for the bacterium are... fermented corn is consumed in large quantities in Mexico though. Corn tortillas are produced from corn cooked in an alkaline solution, it is then left overnight to ferment
Unfortunately, the conditions that cause B. gladioli to produce bongkrekic acid aren't well-characterized. Sometimes, the bacteria can grow and not produce toxin. It's also super difficult to detect the toxin and the bacteria (there have only been 3000 known cases), so many people might be poisoned and recover before reporting.
There's a source in the description "Bongkrekic Acid and Burkholderia gladioli pathovar cocovenenans: Formidable Foe and Ascending Threat to Food Safety", published in 2023, that summarizes the state of research. There are some factors that seem interesting, like salt content, acidity, and spices, but it's not clear why certain food preparations don't make the toxin.
VW is a 24 year old woman presenting to the TH-cam comment section with a new fear unlocked.
😂
*24-YEAR-OLD
BMW is a 110 year old company presenting to your reply on TH-cam.
Volkswagen?
Ender's Game mentioned?
This channel is the sole reason I’ve thrown away a lot of food that I known been left out for too long.
maybe here, I found out never let your wet "carb-item" sit out all day (bad bacteria), and I even suspect that bit of cooked rice if its over a week old in the fridge now.
Same
You wouldn't want to be 'Presenting to the Emergency Rooom..'
@@bellemorelock4924 Thankfully I have thrown out all carb food except fruit for health reasons. I only eat meat, eggs and fruit now, so I don't have to worry about that.
My boyfriend is mad when I throw food away that has been left out long. And my response is always "but chubbyemu"
13:49 OMG he said the thing! The one thing I remember from high school biology class!
The actors are amazing!! It makes the video very accessible to watch!
This one made me tear up a bit
He lost his entire family in the blink of an eye after what was supposed to be a wholesome and happy day. Terrible. Just terrible.
I am so sorry, Ace.
Me too.
Yeah, this one hurt my heart.
are those stories true? why it has some specific details like "he saw the floor spinning" how would they know? "she was uncomfortable with the coworker" why the random detail?
@@user-yd3rs2mg4c i guess you could look it up on korean internet see if its legit with google translate
@@user-yd3rs2mg4c he changes the facts on everything likely to avoid legal issues for monetizing his stories, it was really a family of 12 and there were 3 survivors. still sad though.
I always keep in mind that cooking kills bacteria but doesn’t remove toxins released by bacteria. I never take chances. I have a list on my fridge of how long foods can be refrigerated. If I don’t get leftovers into the fridge within 2 hours, I throw them out. I’m already disabled due to chronic illness. I don’t need to give myself food poisoning too.
I feel really bad for the survivor. The survivor guilt must be unbearable.
share the list?
@@brandandixon3943 I cut it out of a magazine and it’s way too much to type out, but I’m sure you could find one on google.
I don't have any leftovers. I just plain eat what make. All of it.
@@-danRliterally. sometimes it’s a good amount but we make it work
lethal dose of that toxin is as little as 1mg.. yikes
The actors in this one sold being sick!😂😂😂
This guy should be picked up by Discovery or the BBC. These documentaries are of such a high quality.
And how you’re just left speechless at the end like what can even be said?? Eventually something is going to kill you
Reject ancestral fermented food from the homeland, embrace potato chips. Got ya, Chubbyemu.
Don't end up like that kid who ate potato chips and fries for 10 years.
Corn is native to the Americas, which means no one in Eurasia had access to it until the 16th century at least. It could have become a traditional food in that time period, but it's not an ancestral food.
I agree that it's ironic that the only member of the family that survived was the one who ate western junk food.
corn only arrived in China in the past few centuries I'd hardly call it ancestral or important to Chinese ancestry.
can we stop using a neonazi catchphrase as a meme template ? thanks
Food that is full of nutrients is also delicious for bacteria. Food that is devoid of nutrition -- bacteria would literally rather starve to death than eat it
This is honestly one of the most horrifying videos you've posted to date.
I cannot imagine how he went on with his life after losing his whole family in such a horrible and painfull way.
I really felt like something was up my throat while watching this.
Pause no Diddy
He certainly isn't eating any fermented foods from that point onwards
@@Marco-717😂😂😂
@@Marco-717 gen alpha lookin brighter then ever
@@anapple6912the brightest generation on earth!
Wow! What an eye opener. Perfectionist medical explanation is so satisfying. Thank you much.
I like watching this channel to humble me when I’m eyeing the two week old rice and noodles in my fridge.
One of the darkest Chubbyemu epidoes of all time.
😭😭😭😭
I feel like it's the darkest
@@sakushimei Yeah, this story is brutal
.... made no recovery 😂
Indeed
17:35 " The side effect of eating this is that it can eliminate humans too" 💀💀
its just a side effect..💀💀
You never answer my question. Do I have to hold up my finger when I present myself to the emergency room.
That's so sad and frightening. How tragic that a celebratory meal turned into painful deaths.
This is so sad. Ace lost his whole immediate family within hours after a seemingly nice family breakfast. Poor guy. I hope he’s doing okay.
My thoughts exactly. Love and light to Ace. ♥
it was SUCH a NICE breakfast!
In the end, at least ace is a live, so he was the luckiest one to live.
But it must be traumatizing to see your whole family go down like that…
Yep, my father passed away from complications of esophageal cancer when I was 12 years old, he had been sick for a while though. I cannot imagine losing my mom and twin sister.
@@ckeymelodies : Sorry to hear that. Love and light to you! ❤️
Indonesian here 🇮🇩. You have just taught me more about Tempe Bongkrek than I've ever known in my life time. First time I heard that a toxin was named after an Indonesian food. I didn't realize it was banned back in 1988.
Indonesian here too. Jadi serem lol, apalagi sarapan chindo banyak bgt mie ini itu
@@planetfrank1994 Did you mean noodles made from corn flour or the actual dish presented in the video? I've never seen or even heard about sour noodles before this video
Baca ronggeng dukuh paruk dulu jadi tau bongkrek
@cfcfcfcf I don't think Indonesia have that kind of sour noodle. Look I'm Chinese born and raised in Fujian, never saw sour noodle which is a northeastern Chinese cuisine. Even our maize tasting different.
@@user-qo5eg7ly5u huh, so it's an especially regional thing then. Good to know hahah.
And after re-reading his comment, frankie boy there was being a bit paranoid about every "indonesian chinese noodles", so i was asking the wrong question anyway. I guess both mine and his comprehension skill need a lot of work lol.
Did you specially hire these actors for this video? These are any old stock videos lol. Either way, it's amazing quality and really adds and helps provides understanding. Thank you for your effort dr. Bernard.
That must be absolutely horrible. Imagine the sheer survivor's guilt you would get from being the only one alive in your family. And to know that you survived only out of dumb luck.
An absolute nightmare. To sit with your family, laugh, have what seemed to be a good breakfast just for later that day to lose them all and then be the sole survivor because you didn't like the texture of something is just... wild beyond anybodies imagination. The horror of sitting in the room while your entire family is passing, my heart is so heavy for them all.
"this person made everyone uncomfortable, especially when he wore shorts"
what 💀
I want to know more about this person. Why shorts?
Sounds like more of a her problem 🙃
Fr why did bro catch a stray bc he wore shorts 💀, and why is the fact he was there even in the report. Imagine SC's in her deathbed and her last words are about how her coworker wears shorts to work and how she hates him for it
I'm so glad this was addressed 😂
Is there a lore reason for that?
Your videos are amazing! I love the inclusion of actors to visually represent the story! Thank you for putting so much effort into these for us!
nah the “weird guy” walking past the girl on the floor coughing is crazy 💀 4:42
A young adult, originally from remote Peru, growing up in US, came to stay at our house in UK a few years ago. Meat leftovers from dinner accidentally weren't refrigerated overnight. In the morning, they were happy to eat it for breakfast and I tried to explain they shouldn't. They were used to not wasting food and money was very tight, so they couldn't understand my point. I'm sure I seemed wasteful and careless. In the end, they ate it and didn't get sick, but this story reminds us they sometimes people are lucky and others aren't.
Obviously not having enough money/food is a big factor in people eating stuff when they should discard it, but also culture, tradition, how you were raised, also play a big part.
Did that for the past 2 days. Ground beef was in the fridge for ever a week. Started to get moldy. I removed the top viable mold and ate it. I'm unemployed currently. Receiving government assistance, SNAP benefits. I spent too much money to throw away meat that taste and smells normal.
Food health is bs. Fermentation is bacteria, only certain types can be done at home safely. They froze bacteria and ate it when it was old.
That can literally unalive you. Why are you rolling the dice? You can cook the meat, freeze leftovers, and heat it back up when you're ready to eat more. Don't be so foolish and lazy...@@myhandlehasbeenmishandled
@@myhandlehasbeenmishandled It's a common mistake to think the visibly moldy part of the food can be cut off. All parts of the moldy food are equally moldy. The part that looks moldy only appears because the mold has run out of places to spread to.
Isn't mould supposed to be dead after heating?@@E.Pierro.Artist
Just gotta say at around 6:20 is the most CLEAR, concise and fast description of insulin function I ever heard. Literally didnt fully get it my whole life until that moment lol
seriously? you never heard someone say before that insulin pretty much helps cells uptake sugar? wow... your teachers must 've sucked so bad..
This one hit different, feel terrible for the sole survivor of the family. Thank you for spreading awareness, it truly is life saving 🙏🏼 everyone stay safe and don’t eat suspicious food 🥲
I've got in the habit of leaving a container half filled with water in my freezer. After the container freezes I turn it on its side. This will tell me if the power to my freezer has lapsed melting the container of water.
You can do the same thing with having ice cubes in a cup and it’s less mess if the power goes out.
I cannot imagine how that woman would've felt knowing her funeral beer caused dozens of more funerals. I suppose it's a small mercy she never had to face that guilt...
She had no idea since she had her own problems to deal with.
This would be my worst nightmare. Eating a nice meal and getting along with everyone, only to get a phone call later that day in the middle of work from one of your family members in a health crisis and driving back to help. Then to arrive and find everyone else you had enjoyed the morning with are in critical condition too. Your younger siblings, along with your parents, all dying on the same day. With how quickly Ace got to the hospital, and how no one pressured him to eat the special homemade traditional meal that morning makes me feel like they were a very close family of kind people. I hope he got the support he needed to work through such a tragedy. I don't know if I could
yes the meal was so so nice
shit got me so scared i cried thinking about my family
Also it's acted with ace by ace... can't imagine how hard it was to stand out and pretend it happened again>😥😥
Poor guy, that will mess with you for the rest of your life. So sad!
A bunch of leftover rice has just been transferred from my fridge to the garbage.
We eat tempeh almost everyday. We even have special dishes from left over tempeh. We eat it as traditional dish in some part of our country. It s super delicious and we pass this recipe from one generation to next generation.
So 364 days is the limit…
😂😂😂😂
well duh!
364 days 23 hours 59 minutes 59 seconds is the limit.
XD
No!
One thing to remember is that you should only defrost frozen items in the fridge or while cooking them, never by leaving out on the counter. If you do need to defrost something before cooking it and you don't have to do it in the fridge, then you can defrost by placing the item in a bowl and running COLD water over it until it is thawed. Never use warm or hot water for this purpose. Also, if such a need arises, consider just making something else that day and thawing the item in the fridge overnight.
Except my fridge is
@@Drew-Dastardly So use one of the other safe methods, or plan 3 days ahead. (And *everyone’s* fridge should be
Why not use warm water?
Never understood how people thaw stuff in the fridge overnight. I put something there to thaw and it’s still frozen solid after 24 hours. Do people specifically set their fridge to higher temperature or something?
My family has always defrosted by setting it in the sink several hours before dinner. Never thought anything of it.
My mom leaves food out on the counter for DAYS. I warn her but Im afraid shes too far gone
Your explanation & breakdown of medical terminology blows my mind. wow!
A full recovery 😃
A recovery 🥲
Autopsy reveals 😥
Autopsies of DC MC BC SC 💀
So sad
Could not make a recovery: 😞
Another level
In fact, nine members of this family died in this incident.😢😢
@@pixialang5949😮
This is why single guys usually have a fairly empty fridge. You can't mistakenly eat one year leftovers if there are no leftovers.
3000 IQ plays
Yer, just buy food that you plan eat next three or four days. I have small refrigerate and I do not eat big meal as well. I go there to buy food twice a week. Give priority what I already have as I want shrimp but no one person size, only family or business size. So basically I had to eat shrimp for few days in rows before I can buy different meat. Edited: I do not cook all shrimps at once but divide them. Most of them is on freeze then by one by one it was move to refrigerate to be thawed. I do not want risk thaws it in room temperature as I do forget to cook it sometimes (I do skip meal pretty often, not my intention) so when I am ready to cook, I just take small amounts that already thawed in refrigerator which take longer to complete thawing but more safer.
This is the strat
lyfe hack
just put a sticky note on the leftovers lmao
That’s insane that this person single-handedly lost his entire close family to some noodles
On the bright side, early inheritance and no siblings to split it with.
@@MrHighRawi don't think there will ever be a bright side to this
FORBIDDEN ASIAN EXIT
@@MrHighRawI'm not sure but in many cases, depending on the laws of the country, if he wasn't already written in an official will, the government seizes the property. Maybe the parents hadn't got around to writing a will yet. Or sometimes the person has to pay a very large amount for it. I could be wrong though. ❤
@@霞谷 There always is a subjective bright side to anything for anyone looking hard enough (it's something really common in my place; I think it's part of my people's coping mechanism) and arguably objective ones too. But I don't think a person in this kind of situation will be able to find it as it's too much of a tragedy.
Is there a way to prevent this toxin from infecting people so these traditional fermented dishes can still be enjoyed? Would washing the corn and coconuts before preparation help?
...go and watch the video again, this time actually listening to it...
“Mitochondria, the powerhouse of the cell” I was waiting for that line😭
Lmao! I'm not the only one!