What's at the back of your cupboard

imme

Whilst cleaning out the kitchen cupboards I came across a korma sauce best before 2017.

Would that be safe to use I wondered. I'm still wondering.

What's at the back of your cupboard.

Edgware

Nothing. It just covers the grafitti by the previous tenant which read "I will kill again"

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

imme wrote: »

Whilst cleaning out the kitchen cupboards I came across a korma sauce best before 2017.

Would that be safe to use I wondered. I'm still wondering.

What's at the back of your cupboard.

Best before on a sauce - fine.


Nothing out of date in our cupboards, as we do a check at least every six months.

Liquid smoke from 2014, but it’s not going anywhere.

Cheshire Cat

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Liquid smoke from 2014, but it’s not going anywhere.

Do we live in the same house?!?

0lddog

Last time I plucked up courage to climb up to the back of the top shelf found a vesta curry packet, price 1 / 3, and no best before date ( things like that not needed back then )

Also found a tin of sardines that was distorted and oozing



( 1 / 3 : thats one shilling and three pence )

u140acro3xs7dm

Some random liqueurs that I brought home from a foreign holiday.

Mam of 4

Briana Faithful Rectangle wrote: »

Some random liqueurs that I brought home from a foreign holiday.

Did you bring them home with you when you left Earth ?

NickNickleby

0lddog wrote: »

Last time I plucked up courage to climb up to the back of the top shelf found a vesta curry packet, price 1 / 3, and no best before date ( things like that not needed back then )

Also found a tin of sardines that was distorted and oozing



( 1 / 3 : thats one shilling and three pence )

Wow! Have you still got it. Best Curry Ever!!! well maybe not, but a Vesta Beef Curry was my first taste of curry, and try as I might I've never managed to replicate that spicy/powdery/gritty taste. Well, not deliberately.

I bet a quick search will throw up 1/3 somewhere in the house - including the 12 sided threepence. Or thrupence as we called it.

As for our own cupboards, daren't look.

Lewis_Benson

Lyle golden syrup from 1995

dxhound2005

NickNickleby wrote: »

Wow! Have you still got it. Best Curry Ever!!! well maybe not, but a Vesta Beef Curry was my first taste of curry, and try as I might I've never managed to replicate that spicy/powdery/gritty taste. Well, not deliberately.

I bet a quick search will throw up 1/3 somewhere in the house - including the 12 sided threepence. Or thrupence as we called it.

As for our own cupboards, daren't look.

For the benefit of younger viewers that was a British thrupence. Ours was round with an Irish Hare depicted on the reverse side.

touts

Iodine tablets from Fianna Fail.

Ye'll all be sorry yet that you threw them out.

dxhound2005

touts wrote: »

Iodine tablets from Fianna Fail.

Ye'll all be sorry yet that you threw them out.

Have they got a best before or use by date?

whiskeyman

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Have they got a best before or use by date?

Best Before WW3.

touts

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Have they got a best before or use by date?

Who cares. When Sellifield goes boom I'll still pop them.

dxhound2005

touts wrote: »

Who cares. When Sellifield goes boom I'll still pop them.

Keep them at the front of the cupboard for easy access.

biko

Tins of tuna in spring water, lasts forever

Firefox11

touts wrote: »

Iodine tablets from Fianna Fail.

Ye'll all be sorry yet that you threw them out.

Pffft!!.....I ate mine long ago!

Bobblehats

Firefox11 wrote: »

Pffft!!.....I ate mine long ago!

It’s Iodine not I dine

anewme

imme wrote: »

Whilst cleaning out the kitchen cupboards I came across a korma sauce best before 2017.

Would that be safe to use I wondered. I'm still wondering.

What's at the back of your cupboard.

Ha ha, OP, there must be something in the water. I cleaned out the cupboards the other night and filled 3 carrier bags with stuff from 2012 (spices and sugar) onwards. Lots of space now to fill until the next clear out in 2025.

Graces7

No longer have any idea.. This place is bereft of storage space and has only 2 small cupboards. one high up, the other under the sink.

I can no longer get down on the floor to check the bottom cupboard.. well I could but getting up again... I will have to use a torch anyways to see to the back

As I have been here just over 2 years there is nothing really desperate . Tins, bottles and kitchen stuff.. Maybe my long lost rolling pin is lurking there. Or maybe it got left at the last or previous rentals.. Have moved nine times in the last 15 years so anything is possible.. I had a small mixer at one stage too...

Thank you for reminding me; if I vanish totally you know the Cupboard Monster got me :eek:

Graces7

anewme wrote: »

Ha ha, OP, there must be something in the water. I cleaned out the cupboards the other night and filled 3 carrier bags with stuff from 2012 (spices and sugar) onwards. Lots of space now to fill until the next clear out in 2025.

But they last forever? Would not throw them out

Canis Lupus

There's always a random packet of opened icing sugar that looks like it's been there for years. I could throw it away and I'm sure another would magically appear looking the same sorry way soon after.

dodderangler

Atm I’ve a rogue mouse. He’s dodging the traps. Wiley ould bollöx

JohnnyFlash

Graces7 wrote: »

No longer have any idea.. This place is bereft of storage space and has only 2 small cupboards. one high up, the other under the sink.

I can no longer get down on the floor to check the bottom cupboard.. well I could but getting up again... I will have to use a torch anyways to see to the back

As I have been here just over 2 years there is nothing really desperate . Tins, bottles and kitchen stuff.. Maybe my long lost rolling pin is lurking there. Or maybe it got left at the last or previous rentals.. Have moved nine times in the last 15 years so anything is possible.. I had a small mixer at one stage too...

Thank you for reminding me; if I vanish totally you know the Cupboard Monster got me :eek:

9 times in 15 years is a lot for an elderly lady. Why so often?

Church on Tuesday

HP sauce.

the beer revolu

Graces7 wrote: »

But they last forever? Would not throw them out

Sugar lasts for ever.
Spices, not so much.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

the beer revolu wrote: »

Sugar lasts for ever.
Spices, not so much.

True.
White sugar keeps indefinitely, while brown sugar is best used within 2 years.
Most Ground spices are usually of no use beyond 3 years.

All assuming airtight, dry, storage.

Plopsu

Ever since that ad with Bertie Aherne, I'm afraid to look in my cupboards.

Muahahaha

Renovating a kitchen at the moment so cleared out all presses before we demolished the old one. The highlight was a 3 year old bottle of Maggi fish sauce complete with rice grains stuck on to the bottle. Thankfully the new kitchen will have a pull out larder going floor to ceiling so no more forgetting about stuff at the back of the cupboard. Cost me a small fortune but will be worth it to be able to have quick sight and access to all dry goods.

Graces7

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

9 times in 15 years is a lot for an elderly lady. Why so often?

Bottom end of the rental market, and some dangerous dives and bad landlords. Last place was a fire trap.

I was not as old of course 15 years ago! lol...Settled now as with the council,

Graces7

the beer revolu wrote: »

Sugar lasts for ever.
Spices, not so much.

Spices and I no longer agree... sugar is a different matter altogether. I was careful to put only jars and bottles in the bottom cupboard as there had been mice therein, So there will be nothing nasty... ;)The wall cupboard is tiny and has already been sorted. And nothing nasty.. quite the opposite..

Jonybgud

touts wrote: »

Iodine tablets from Fianna Fail.

Ye'll all be sorry yet that you threw them out.

:rolleyes: leave them any longer and they'll wander off on their own...

Muahahaha

Graces7 wrote: »

Bottom end of the rental market, and some dangerous dives and bad landlords. Last place was a fire trap.

I was not as old of course 15 years ago! lol...Settled now as with the council,

Jesus moving 9 times in 15 years is something else Grace. I thought I had it bad when I moved 4 times in 3 years due to the rental crisis. So glad I have my own place now and those days are over but my god was it stressful, I never felt like I could make any place a home. Theres nothing worse that having no security of where you might be in a few months time, it effects every other part of your life and your mental health.

The Tetrarch

I must win this with my plastic bottle of of Mazola 100% pure sunflower oil, best before JAN 1989. I cook sausages for the dogs with it.
My sister criticised me for using cooking oil. It gives you cancer.
I took great pleasure in telling her the next time I saw here that the oil was 30 years old and I have survived.

Graces7

Muahahaha wrote: »

Jesus moving 9 times in 15 years is something else Grace. I thought I had it bad when I moved 4 times in 3 years due to the rental crisis. So glad I have my own place now and those days are over but my god was it stressful, I never felt like I could make any place a home. Theres nothing worse that having no security of where you might be in a few months time, it effects every other part of your life and your mental health.

Thanks. I still find myself wondering where I am when I wake up and what is outside the house! It is so unsettling .

And I am still addicted to daft.ie!

Oh and that was after the Big Move from the UK! Actually it was eleven places in under 17 years counting that.

I have a certain stability with my cats around me etc and am self sufficient. I can make anywhere a home quickly. Gather around me what matters . I was 4 years at the last but one then the landlord hit a financial glitch and needed to sell up. That was a hard one. I knew his family well etc and was settled there. Loved and miss Killarney .But always wanted back to Mayo

I am safe here and glad you are too.

And at least the cupboards are fairly sorted! Rolling stones gather no ancient food!
Few folk realise the real effect of the rental crisis.

Graces7

You have inspired me! Top cupboards cleared and my rewards was finding 2 packets of the instant noodles I cannot get out here!

And... the motivation has spread to the fridge...Please let no one call today as everything is out in the place!

Graces7

The Tetrarch wrote: »

I must win this with my plastic bottle of of Mazola 100% pure sunflower oil, best before JAN 1989. I cook sausages for the dogs with it.
My sister criticised me for using cooking oil. It gives you cancer.
I took great pleasure in telling her the next time I saw here that the oil was 30 years old and I have survived.

Poor dogs.. :eek: