Since I bought the air fryer I've been eating so many chips even I think it's not good for me so on my trip into Mildura yesterday I bought the ingredients for a chicken stirfry but didn't buy any sauces as I knew I had plenty. Today I chopped the chook and veg up in preparation and thought I'd better see what sauces I have - I have plenty of bottles of soy, plumb, oyster, sweet chilli etc but I also found this packet of prepared sauce which I shall be using tonight. This is pushing four years out of date but my best so far is a bread mix at five years past sell-by date and I wonder what is the most out of date food you have eaten and lived to tell the tale?
The key wording is "best before" which is not actually out of date.
But when it comes anything like my minister of home affairs would chuck it out.
dabbler said
03:54 PM Jul 13, 2022
I'm guided but not driven by use by/best before dates. For me it depends how it's packaged, where it's stored and whether the seal is broken. As a rule I avoid older sauces and wet ingredients once opened. It's probably my storage but older dry ingredients esp containing flours or nuts are always seem sub-par but I like variety so always have more types of food than I can eat within recommended time frames. I'm sure we'll both be posting in the future.
dorian said
04:03 PM Jul 13, 2022
Well, it does say "a taste for adventure".
86GTS said
04:24 PM Jul 13, 2022
Have you got a needle that you can sh*t thru the eye of at 20 paces?
Plain Truth said
05:04 PM Jul 13, 2022
Mike Harding wrote:
Since I bought the air fryer I've been eating so many chips even I think it's not good for me so on my trip into Mildura yesterday I bought the ingredients for a chicken stirfry but didn't buy any sauces as I knew I had plenty. Today I chopped the chook and veg up in preparation and thought I'd better see what sauces I have - I have plenty of bottles of soy, plumb, oyster, sweet chilli etc but I also found this packet of prepared sauce which I shall be using tonight. This is pushing four years out of date but my best so far is a bread mix at five years past sell-by date and I wonder what is the most out of date food you have eaten and lived to tell the tale?
I notice the ingredients call for 'Snow peas" hope they were cheaper in Mildura than Wentworth where you said they were $45 kg.
If you are not here tomorrow we can blame the 50% of the ingredients that aren't Australian
Bobdown said
05:42 PM Jul 13, 2022
Nuke it...........
Mike Harding said
05:52 PM Jul 13, 2022
Hi PT
From interest I looked for snow peas in Woolworth in Mildura but they did not have any. Instead I bought round beans, mushrooms, carrot and red pepper which have all gone into tonight's (and tomorrow's) stir fry. I added the long date sauce and a bit of extra black bean sauce and it all smells and tastes pretty good however the proof will come in an hour or so - this may be my last post!? :)
The pelicans and swans are doing their thing on the river 10m distant and the sky has only high, thin cloud - life is pretty good.
Edit: And a most beautiful full moon - who could want for more....
-- Edited by Mike Harding on Wednesday 13th of July 2022 06:15:31 PM
oldbloke said
06:04 PM Jul 13, 2022
Useby dates are always very conservative. But 4 years might be pushing it.
P.S. I just purchased 10kg of dehydrated malt 3 months past its "best before date" for home brew. 1/4 normal price. No hesitation in using it. I will just keep it refrigerated to extend its life.
-- Edited by oldbloke on Wednesday 13th of July 2022 06:08:14 PM
Dougwe said
06:15 PM Jul 13, 2022
peter67 said
06:18 PM Jul 13, 2022
I once found a BIG MAC by the side of a little used outback track. Looked fresh as a daisy, but could not find a use by date.
Plain Truth said
06:37 PM Jul 13, 2022
peter67 wrote:
I once found a BIG MAC by the side of a little used outback track. Looked fresh as a daisy, but could not find a use by date.
I don't think there is a used by date on a Big Mac. but to be safe you could throwaway the big mac, and eat the box.
Craig1 said
07:56 PM Jul 13, 2022
Think about spices etc coming from India to UK in 16th century, sometimes took 10 years, most Poms lived
Derek Barnes said
09:31 PM Jul 13, 2022
I dont usually care about the use by date of spices and other dried items but its different for meat and milk. I am very sensitive to amines in foods so if meat or milk is even approaching the use by date it begins to smell awful to me and I cannot eat it. Amines continue to be generated in food even if it is refrigerated. I am particularly wary of vacuum packed meat which seems to be given a later use by date.
The decades old contents is in perfect condition in our glass containers!
dorian said
03:42 AM Jul 14, 2022
I once had occasion to call a helpline for a spice product (I couldn't find the use-by date). I was told that expired spices weren't dangerous, merely ineffective. These were dry spices, though.
86GTS said
04:28 AM Jul 14, 2022
Why does one thousand year old pink rock salt have such a relatively short use by date?
rgren2 said
08:53 PM Jul 14, 2022
86GTS wrote:
Why does one thousand year old pink rock salt have such a relatively short use by date?
Spring water does too.
gold dandelion said
10:22 PM Jul 14, 2022
Coca Cola say bottled water is the hardest of their products to bottle, because of the colour of the bottle, sunlight and mould, that's why is has a shorter use by date than coke itself.
peter67 said
08:28 AM Jul 15, 2022
I'd gladly drink a 100 yo bottle of coke, had the good stuff in it way back then.
rgren2 said
08:33 AM Jul 15, 2022
Do bottles of wine have a Use By or Best Before date?
yobarr said
10:28 AM Jul 15, 2022
peter67 wrote:
I'd gladly drink a 100 yo bottle of coke, had the good stuff in it way back then.
First sold in 1886 it was not until 1903 that the Cocaine was removed from the Coca Cola recipe.Cheers
markf said
12:22 PM Jul 15, 2022
I drink Cooper Sparkling Ale - it has a Best After date on it. Just gotta to be carefulto not get into it too soon...
Whenarewethere said
01:15 PM Jul 15, 2022
rgren2 wrote:
Do bottles of wine have a Use By or Best Before date?
Yes, price is the code!
woolman said
01:43 PM Jul 15, 2022
Best before does not mean it has gone off in any way. We have eated a Lions Christmas fruit cake 25 years past best before.. for a manufacturer to extend the best efore date is finacially impractical.
Use by up to a week is ok if it smells and tastes ok , best before is ok if it looks ok
Neil
rgren2 said
01:53 PM Jul 15, 2022
Whenarewethere wrote:
rgren2 wrote:
Do bottles of wine have a Use By or Best Before date?
Yes, price is the code!
So its best to scoff Chateau Cardboard fairly quickly then.
deverall11 said
04:59 PM Jul 15, 2022
As a chef:
Use by: Be careful it may have an adverse reaction. Mung beans don't go near them. Unflavoured full cream milk can last
up tp two weeks if looked after. Simple test - if it smells or taste (do not swallow) off, forget it.
Best before: Usually ok, just lost its potency in the case of spices. In Australia ALL food items must be date codes
regardless. It's a thing. I have had dried pasta that was 3 years out of code.
I am reliably informed that tin food can last up to 7 years.
If in doubt throw it out.
Whenarewethere said
05:38 PM Jul 15, 2022
rgren2 wrote:
Whenarewethere wrote:
rgren2 wrote:
Do bottles of wine have a Use By or Best Before date?
Yes, price is the code!
So its best to scoff Chateau Cardboard fairly quickly then.
Exactly. The opposite to sea food, lobster & prawns eaten straight away. Dried seaweed, leave it on the shelf for years.
Since I bought the air fryer I've been eating so many chips even I think it's not good for me so on my trip into Mildura yesterday I bought the ingredients for a chicken stirfry but didn't buy any sauces as I knew I had plenty. Today I chopped the chook and veg up in preparation and thought I'd better see what sauces I have - I have plenty of bottles of soy, plumb, oyster, sweet chilli etc but I also found this packet of prepared sauce which I shall be using tonight. This is pushing four years out of date but my best so far is a bread mix at five years past sell-by date and I wonder what is the most out of date food you have eaten and lived to tell the tale?
The key wording is "best before" which is not actually out of date.
But when it comes anything like my minister of home affairs would chuck it out.
Well, it does say "a taste for adventure".
Have you got a needle that you can sh*t thru the eye of at 20 paces?
I notice the ingredients call for 'Snow peas" hope they were cheaper in Mildura than Wentworth where you said they were $45 kg.
If you are not here tomorrow we can blame the 50% of the ingredients that aren't Australian
Nuke it...........
Hi PT
From interest I looked for snow peas in Woolworth in Mildura but they did not have any. Instead I bought round beans, mushrooms, carrot and red pepper which have all gone into tonight's (and tomorrow's) stir fry. I added the long date sauce and a bit of extra black bean sauce and it all smells and tastes pretty good however the proof will come in an hour or so - this may be my last post!? :)
The pelicans and swans are doing their thing on the river 10m distant and the sky has only high, thin cloud - life is pretty good.
Edit: And a most beautiful full moon - who could want for more....
-- Edited by Mike Harding on Wednesday 13th of July 2022 06:15:31 PM
Useby dates are always very conservative. But 4 years might be pushing it.
P.S. I just purchased 10kg of dehydrated malt 3 months past its "best before date" for home brew. 1/4 normal price. No hesitation in using it. I will just keep it refrigerated to extend its life.
-- Edited by oldbloke on Wednesday 13th of July 2022 06:08:14 PM
I don't think there is a used by date on a Big Mac. but to be safe you could throwaway the big mac, and eat the box.
I dont usually care about the use by date of spices and other dried items but its different for meat and milk. I am very sensitive to amines in foods so if meat or milk is even approaching the use by date it begins to smell awful to me and I cannot eat it. Amines continue to be generated in food even if it is refrigerated. I am particularly wary of vacuum packed meat which seems to be given a later use by date.
McDonalds seems to last quite well too! Cheers
The decades old contents is in perfect condition in our glass containers!
Spring water does too.
First sold in 1886 it was not until 1903 that the Cocaine was removed from the Coca Cola recipe.Cheers
Yes, price is the code!
Best before does not mean it has gone off in any way. We have eated a Lions Christmas fruit cake 25 years past best before.. for a manufacturer to extend the best efore date is finacially impractical.
Use by up to a week is ok if it smells and tastes ok , best before is ok if it looks ok
Neil
So its best to scoff Chateau Cardboard fairly quickly then.
Use by: Be careful it may have an adverse reaction. Mung beans don't go near them. Unflavoured full cream milk can last
up tp two weeks if looked after. Simple test - if it smells or taste (do not swallow) off, forget it.
Best before: Usually ok, just lost its potency in the case of spices. In Australia ALL food items must be date codes
regardless. It's a thing. I have had dried pasta that was 3 years out of code.
I am reliably informed that tin food can last up to 7 years.
If in doubt throw it out.
Exactly. The opposite to sea food, lobster & prawns eaten straight away. Dried seaweed, leave it on the shelf for years.