Left fridge door slightly open, pork butt now at 53 degrees!


 
You'll get lots of safe/unsafe answers but in the end, you have to decide because you're the one eating it.

I found this and it's probably not a good idea to eat it now:

http://cooking.stackexchange.com/qu...left-at-room-temperature-is-still-safe-to-eat

The Danger Zone


  • Potentially hazardous food that stays in the temperature "danger zone", 40-140 °F (4-60 °C), for more than 2 hours should be discarded.[SUP]*[/SUP]
  • Potentially hazardous foods are those foods that spoil most easily, such as unshelled eggs, raw meats, fish, shell fish, dairy products, almost all cooked foods.
  • This time is cumulative, so it includes time bringing the food home from the grocery store, time before cooking, time after cooking, and so on. The reason is that while cooking may destroy bacteria or other pathogens, it doesn't always destroy the toxins that they have produced.
  • So in general, regarding perishable foods like meat, most dairy, unshelled eggs and shell eggs (in the US), cooked casseroles, and so on: if the food (or its perishable components) have been at room temperature for more than two hours, you should discard that food.
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Having said that, it does say "room temperature" which at 53o is not room temp. Like I prefaced this, you are the one to make the final decision.
 
You probably shouldn't have deleted your post because other people would find it useful to know if it happened to them.
 
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