Is this a good idea or?

[devamadhu]

I also ate raw meat the day I got Level 5 Cooking, and immediately got food poisoning. I was pleasantly surprised that you can "reboot" ruined meat to 50% - just cooked a bunch of rotten old fish in my longest Pilgrim run.

Seems like the only thing you'd want to avoid is leaving super low condition meat in a container, as I imagine it would disappear once it spoiled completely (like broken sewing kits and other trash). Thankfully ruined meat doesn't disappear when it's left on the floor or on the ground.