How 'food safe' are YOU?

crazy cabbage · 23-07-2012 07:27PM

Best before - but good after

eirator · 23-07-2012 07:44PM

the keen edge wrote: »

My auld fellla is like some kind of human dustbin. Use by and best before dates mean absolutely nothing to him as long as food smells ok he'll eat it.

There about a month ago in the drinks cabinet he found four long forgotten about cans of Guinness that were over two years past their use by/best before date. Anyway he drank them, didn't do him a bit of harm, and he's still rattling around the house talk shite doing my head in as per usual.

And no he isn't a desperate alco who'd drink anything he'd get is hands on for a buzz.

After a few pints of Guinness recently I treated myself to a 4 year old pickled egg, loverly and black it was much the same colour as the Guinness. No ill effects at all but a similar egg from the same jar had some dreadful repercussions when a mate ate one a few weeks earlier - I seem to remember I was checking they were still OK.

WhatNowForUs? · 23-07-2012 07:54PM

Rhand wrote: »

I hope the people who "scrape of the mold" realise that it's not only that area affected, but the whole piece and the mold is just a way of showing the whole piece is affected.
So if your food has a bit of mold on it, there's not a single reason to scrape it off if you're gonna eat it afterwards. Except aesthetics maybe.

Would the rest of it not be ok due to the fact that it has not been exposed to air. A bit like a biscuit would go off quicker outside its packaging then inside.

ArtyM · 23-07-2012 08:13PM

I will only eat ham that has been sterilised under my red lightbulb.

23-07-2012 08:16PM

I'll never risk chicken or eggs after a couple of bad experiences.

eirator · 23-07-2012 08:28PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I'll never risk chicken or eggs after a couple of bad experiences.

Which one did you have a bad experience with first?

humbert · 23-07-2012 08:36PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I'll never risk chicken or eggs after a couple of bad experiences.

I'm cooking Lidl chicken fillets now that smelled a bit funny

I've thrown meat out before because it smelled funny only to be told later that that's just the way it smells so now if the used by date isn't ridiculously far gone I'll just give it a little longer.

Edit: Also, noting that they were from Monaghan did nothing to instil confidence. I'd have felt better if it said Puerto Rico.

H2UMrsRobinson · 23-07-2012 08:39PM

People have become wayyyy too fussy in recent times..sure wasn't curry invented to disguise the taste/smell of gone-off meat! Use your own judgement - stick to the golden rule of cook it once, freeze it once and reheat it once and you should be fine. Use-by dates are bull**** and a ruse to get you to buy more stuff. Who in god's name can open a massive jar of olives and consume within 3 days of opening...?

HazDanz · 23-07-2012 08:43PM

I hate when you toast bread and then, after the second or third bite you realise it's moldy. That can ruin a breakfast right there.

23-07-2012 08:45PM

Zab wrote: »

Not eating meat that's one day past its date is pretty silly in my opinion. I also disagree that producers are generally ambitious when it comes to dates, I think it's the exact opposite. For the vast majority of things I really just decide whether I want to eat it or not. I have no wish to eat rotten meat, but I don't care what date has been slapped on it.

I've noticed lately that the dates seem to be massively hit and miss. I've seen unopened chops and steaks look rank days before the BB date and others be fine a few days after it.

The Big Red Button · 23-07-2012 08:46PM

It depends on the food.

Milk just tastes manky once it's been opened around 48 hours. So I'd throw it out then, even if it was well within the best before date.

Fruit/veg - I don't even look at dates, you'll know by looking/feeling if it's OK.

Meat (or anything with meat in it) - I wouldn't take chances with ... I don't cook it all that much so I wouldn't be confident enough that I'd know if it looked/smelled OK.

Eggs - I've often used them up to maybe a week after the BB date, and they're fine.

Anything that has mould on it is going straight into the bin, I wouldn't go cutting the mould off ... yuck!

eirator · 23-07-2012 08:46PM

HazDanz wrote: »

I hate when you toast bread and then, after the second or third bite you realise it's moldy. That can ruin a breakfast right there.

But it didn't kill you. I ate a few slices that tasted a bit funny and noticed only after that there was a good crop of mould on the last slice left in the bag, but the only problem was it didn't taste great. Not that I'd make a habit of eating mouldy bread.

crosstownk · 23-07-2012 08:46PM

I took a lesson from my old dog - smell it - your nose will tell you.

Then, if you decide to eat it, be sure to wash your hands beforehand. So many people are so fussy about best before dates and food quality yet they'll come straight from the jacks without washing their hands and pick up their food and munch away. The dose of the shíts that follows will most certainly be blamed on the food - never the personal hygiene.

girl in the striped socks · 23-07-2012 08:47PM

HazDanz wrote: »

I hate when you toast bread and then, after the second or third bite you realise it's moldy. That can ruin a breakfast right there.

Do you not check the bread first?
And bread lasts a maximum of two days in my house before it gets the bin.

mauzo · 23-07-2012 08:50PM

The only thing I do with food is f*ck it out if its past its sell by date. I freeze things multiple times, reheat things multiple times......dont ever eat in my house i guess!!
Im never sick, stomach of steel

23-07-2012 08:52PM

eirator wrote: »

Which one did you have a bad experience with first?

That was pretty good :pac:

23-07-2012 10:09PM

Not very safe.. A super cheap place I eat at sometimes washes the veg right on the ground outside with a hose. As in where people walk. Cats, dogs and chickens everywhere aswell and their "kitchen" is disgusting.

But they do excellent coffee and a delicious beef & veg stir fry so I don't care. It's good for the immune system.

kfallon · 23-07-2012 10:14PM

Give it a couple of days past the BB date, I mean they are gonna err on the side of caution so you'd get a day or two extra. Milk is the only thing I won't use after it's BB date

Naomi00 · 23-07-2012 10:22PM

Boombastic wrote: »

Heat resistant spores only get time to multiply if the food is held hot for an extensive period of time. If the food is cooked properly and eaten straight from the oven, they will not have sufficient time

It's lasanga, so it's probably minced meat which is the worst thing you could eat past the use by date.

OP I really hope that is a vegetarian lasanga..

Boards needs a sick face emoticon thing.

Boombastic · 23-07-2012 10:25PM

kfallon wrote: »

Give it a couple of days past the BB date, I mean they are gonna err on the side of caution so you'd get a day or two extra. Milk is the only thing I won't use after it's BB date

BB dates are meaningless

crazy cabbage · 23-07-2012 10:53PM

In a suppermarket stuff like prepachaged carrots comes in with a date on it. When it goes by it best before/sell by date the young lads that work there have to throw it out regardless of its condition. Even if they are 100% perfect. It is company pollicy. They have to.

Capalist society wasts so much food it is ridiculous

However In a grocery store/ bucher where they know the product they are selling very well they will be able to look at the carrots/anything and say that they have another week left in them or whatever (they are the expercts). They do not go by sell by dates.

So this is why you should shop In you bucher and veg-shop and markets (well there is 100's reasons why to shop local but will keep it on topic).

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