What's at the back of your cupboard

imme · 02-11-2019 06:25PM #1

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 · 02-11-2019 06:29PM

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

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 02-11-2019 06:33PM

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Nothing out of date in our cupboards, as we do a check at least every six months.

02-11-2019 06:34PM

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

Cheshire Cat · 02-11-2019 06:37PM

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

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

Do we live in the same house?!?

0lddog · 02-11-2019 06:54PM

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 · 02-11-2019 07:03PM

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

Mam of 4 · 02-11-2019 07:23PM

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 · 02-11-2019 07:39PM

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 · 02-11-2019 07:56PM

Lyle golden syrup from 1995

dxhound2005 · 02-11-2019 08:07PM

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 · 02-11-2019 08:12PM

Iodine tablets from Fianna Fail.

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

dxhound2005 · 02-11-2019 08:14PM

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 · 02-11-2019 08:18PM

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Have they got a best before or use by date?

Best Before WW3.

touts · 02-11-2019 08:22PM

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Have they got a best before or use by date?

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

dxhound2005 · 02-11-2019 08:28PM

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 · 02-11-2019 08:31PM

Tins of tuna in spring water, lasts forever

Firefox11 · 02-11-2019 08:36PM

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 · 02-11-2019 08:43PM

Firefox11 wrote: »

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

It’s Iodine not I dine

anewme · 02-11-2019 08:52PM

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 · 05-11-2019 08:13AM

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 · 05-11-2019 08:14AM

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 · 05-11-2019 09:41AM

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 · 05-11-2019 09:46AM

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

JohnnyFlash · 05-11-2019 10:02AM

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 · 05-11-2019 11:17AM

HP sauce.

the beer revolu · 05-11-2019 11:31AM

Graces7 wrote: »

But they last forever? Would not throw them out

Sugar lasts for ever.
Spices, not so much.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 05-11-2019 11:41AM

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 · 05-11-2019 11:51AM

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

Muahahaha · 05-11-2019 11:58AM

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 · 05-11-2019 12:30PM

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,

What's at the back of your cupboard

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