Out of Date Choocolate

Neadine

I found an Easter Egg but it's out of date, since July.
Does chocolate ever really go off?? (chocolate doesn't usual survive in my house long enough to live to see it's Best Before date)

Faq

Out of date or best before ? should be fine to eat

Neadine

Faq wrote: »

Out of date or best before ? should be fine to eat

Best Before 07/2011!

rubberdiddies

Neadine wrote: »

Faq wrote: »

Out of date or best before ? should be fine to eat

Best Before 07/2011!

If it hasn't turned White then it's probably ok. Unless of course it's White choc in which case it's probably ok too!

Neadine

Well, it tastes ok.
What doesn't kill you and all that.

But just in case it's not right, it could be a case of death by chocolate, who knew that could actually happen!

Esel

rubberdiddies wrote: »

If it hasn't turned White then it's probably ok

Even if it has it's probably still fine to eat.

Down with all this Best Before stuff scaring us hungry consumers, I say! :pac:

rubberdiddies

Neadine wrote: »

Well, it tastes ok.
What doesn't kill you and all that.

But just in case it's not right, it could be a case of death by chocolate, who knew that could actually happen!

4.15am and I suddenly have the urge for choc. Thanks a lot OP

Mmmmmmmmmm twixilicious

winston82

You need to ask yourself - would I eat if if I was drunk?

If the answer is Yes, then it's perfectly fine.

Neadine

rubberdiddies wrote: »

4.15am and I suddenly have the urge for choc. Thanks a lot OP

Mmmmmmmmmm twixilicious

No problem!
I was having cravings for chips and coleslaw after the chips thread, settled for gone off chocolate instead!!

Neadine

winston82 wrote: »

You need to ask yourself - would I eat if if I was drunk?

If the answer is Yes, then it's perfectly fine.

But I'm not drunk, and can be rather logical and practical (sometimes) about things in my sober senses.
Maybe any other chocolate and goodies that have passed Best Before I should stock pile in a 'drunk' cupboard!!

rubberdiddies

Neadine wrote: »

rubberdiddies wrote: »

4.15am and I suddenly have the urge for choc. Thanks a lot OP

Mmmmmmmmmm twixilicious

No problem!
I was having cravings for chips and coleslaw after the chips thread, settled for gone off chocolate instead!!

Chocolate never goes off. It simply matures like a fine wi....em piece of chocolate.

Besides you can dump any old crappy leftover pieces into a choc biscuit cake.

Mmmmmmmm chips, coleslaw and choc biscuit cake

Sharpshooter

Neadine wrote: »

I found an Easter Egg but it's out of date, since July.
Does chocolate ever really go off?? (chocolate doesn't usual survive in my house long enough to live to see it's Best Before date)

I want to know what Easter Egg you found.:pac:

Dark or Milk?

Neadine

Hot Lips wrote: »

I want to know what Easter Egg you found.:pac:

Dark or Milk?

Oh Milk, not a Dark chocolate fan.

Neadine

rubberdiddies wrote: »

Chocolate never goes off. It simply matures like a fine wi....em piece of chocolate.

Besides you can dump any old crappy leftover pieces into a choc biscuit cake.

Mmmmmmmm chips, coleslaw and choc biscuit cake

Now that's an interesting late night, early morning snack.

Now I'm feckin starving... thanks for that. :rolleyes:

Diageio_Man

Any chocolate containing milk or butters will go bad. The fats will go rancid and make the chocolate unedible. Since chocolate bars (of all types, even bakers) contain cocoa butter which contains fat the only chocolate substance that will last well is 100% cocoa powder. Also as moisture content alters, salt will surface and your wonderful egg will taste like a salt lick. You'll be grand chomp it down.

rubberdiddies

Neadine wrote:

Now that's an interesting late night, early morning snack.

Now I'm feckin starving... thanks for that. :rolleyes:

ok that's it. Brekkie time. Anywhere I can get coco pops at this hour of the morning?

Neadine

Diageio_Man wrote: »

Any chocolate containing milk or butters will go bad. The fats will go rancid and make the chocolate unedible. Since chocolate bars (of all types, even bakers) contain cocoa butter which contains fat the only chocolate substance that will last well is 100% cocoa powder. Also as moisture content alters, salt will surface and your wonderful egg will taste like a salt lick. You'll be grand chomp it down.

No offence but.... I don't like you!!!

Diageio_Man

if its any consolation im eating an out of date packet of meenies and snacks, wasent to keen on the chewy snacks at the start but the empty pack is on the floor now haha

Sharpshooter

Neadine wrote: »

Oh Milk, not a Dark chocolate fan.

Lindt Dark CHILLI is to die for, chocolate that burns your tongue and leaves you wanting more.:pac:

stoneill

How did an Easter egg manage to last this long without being eaten?

Something very wrong there, very wrong.

headmaster

Hope you end up on the bowl all day and that it's all scutthery down your legs and underpants

Canard

headmaster wrote: »

Hope you end up on the bowl all day and that it's all scutthery down your legs and underpants

Woo more chocolate! :pac:

starlit

I would not eat out of date chocolate would throw them in the bin! I have a sensitive tummy. I love chocolate but it would have to have a good date on it.

x_Ellie_x

It's perfectly fine to eat it, trust me I'm a chocate expert. My grandfather used to be the manager of a chocolate factory. They used to start making easter eggs in June to go on sale the next March/April (whenever Easter was that year) because chocolate lasts for such a long time (years). The date is just there mostly because they are forced my law to stick a best before date on there. When I was a kid I got to eat easter eggs and bunny's, chocolate santy's, etc, all year round thanks to granddad.

splendid101

I love it when chocolate goes bad because my girlfriend won't eat it so I devour the whole lot.

Dudess

Yeah I found an out-of-date Yorkie Easter egg recently enough OP. Gone-off chocolate doesn't taste great though, and the texture is all crumbly...

revell

Neadine wrote: »

Well, it tastes ok.
What doesn't kill you and all that.

But just in case it's not right, it could be a case of death by chocolate, who knew that could actually happen!

we will never know if you were killed by a easter egg. unless the chocolate can log in and post a post:rolleyes:

ehcor

I think it depends on the chocolate, the amounts of fat, cocoa, etc. I say take a bite and if it tastes okay, then eat it - there's no good reason to waste chocolate.

headmaster

Jesus, I looked at the sheets this morning and they're covered in brown chocolatey slimey googhy stuff, the cat licked some of it and the smell off her is shthink. I'll never go near that shti again. Yhuk

Neadine

Dudess wrote: »

Yeah I found an out-of-date Yorkie Easter egg recently enough OP. Gone-off chocolate doesn't taste great though, and the texture is all crumbly...

Texture of the one I found was fine, and the chocolate still looked like chocolate, not all white and icky looking.

Neadine

revell wrote: »

we will never know if you were killed by a easter egg. unless the chocolate can log in and post a post:rolleyes:

Still alive!

Neadine

stoneill wrote: »

How did an Easter egg manage to last this long without being eaten?

Something very wrong there, very wrong.

Was at the very back of a high up cupboard. Chocolate in my house usually have a very short life span.

Esel

Diageio_Man wrote: »

Any chocolate containing milk or butters will go bad. The fats will go rancid and make the chocolate unedible.

'Unedible' might be a problem.... Death by cholocate, however, is not caused by scare stories on the internet (aka Boards.) I regularly eat inedible stuff that may or may not contain rancid fat, and still cannot die - apparently.

Damn you and your anti-chocolate issues, tbh. :pac: