Poll: Do you eat recently expired food?
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You want to expand on that? Just saying one line and expecting everyone to take it as undeniable truth does not a conversation make.ravensheart18 said:
Also, it doesn't matter for everything. Raw chicken for instance spoils very easily and should be used as soon as possible.
But for your standard things like milk, bread and butter, if it HAS gone off you can tell. And then it's not a good idea to eat it.
Trust your nose.
The Expiration Date is, depending on the product, up to one week early. Its just to be safe. If the package is not damaged, there should be no problem with it. Bread gets a little hard and i would still be very cautious with dairy. But thats the only problem i can see.
Depends on the type of food and how old it is. Something a few days old, sure. When I got my salad dressing out of the refrigerator and saw that it expired 7 month ago (true story), no.
No. I'm highly phobic of even taking a small chance of getting poisoned by food or things I inhale, I have a sort of Mysophobia but specifically for consumables. It's strong enough that even the bloody sell by date gets me. I could have a perfectly fine jug of milk that's sell date is ONE day over, that I could easily finish before it spoiled, and yet I would tell myself "Don't risk it!"
The ONLY exceptions really are if they are canned and/or meant to last forever. I remember I found a drawer full of Halloween candy from god knows when, and my wife went crazy because she saw candy in there she hadn't seen in forever - and after inspecting the candy, it was all still edible - yet I was going "EW OH GOD I PROBABLY GOT THOSE WHEN I WAS 9 D:" even if I was temped by the Mocha Crunch bar. I fucking miss Mocha Crunch.
The ONLY exceptions really are if they are canned and/or meant to last forever. I remember I found a drawer full of Halloween candy from god knows when, and my wife went crazy because she saw candy in there she hadn't seen in forever - and after inspecting the candy, it was all still edible - yet I was going "EW OH GOD I PROBABLY GOT THOSE WHEN I WAS 9 D:" even if I was temped by the Mocha Crunch bar. I fucking miss Mocha Crunch.
Wasteful ... you know alot of expiration dates are merely arbitrary times designated by common values upon which the foods are stored ....Hunter65416 said:
If you stick bread in the freezer, after you get the amount you need, it'll last weeks after it's expiration dates. Conversely if you are to put oats in an airtight jar you can eat them months after the Exp date.
The expiration date for bread assumes you've opened it one/two days after packaging and just left it on a counter with a bag tie stopping air getting inside ... inhibiting germ growth (but not anaerobic bacteria or fungal).
Expiration dates are usually quite vague and can depend on how you store something. If you got a pint of milk and freeze it, it will last longer than another pint with the same expiration that you leave on a radiator
I take the 'does it look, smell and taste edible' approach, I've thrown bread away before the expiration because it had tribbles growing on it. But I've eaten mango sorbet that had gone past its expiration three years prior.
I take the 'does it look, smell and taste edible' approach, I've thrown bread away before the expiration because it had tribbles growing on it. But I've eaten mango sorbet that had gone past its expiration three years prior.
Woulkd bve interesting to get a pound of flour in a container (of the exact dimensions and sealing conditions obviously), expose it to the air for a day in a shady spot (both in the same location) and see how much longer it takes a cool environment like scotland to develop massive fungal/bacterial blooms in comparison to a hot, dry place like Perth.Mackheath said:
Or, easier still, just use an incubator <.<