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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.

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Nothing out of date in our cupboards, as we do a check at least every six months.

[Deleted User]

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.

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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,