‘Once opened, keep refrigerated and use within four weeks’
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I honestly don't think I ever seriously look at or take any notice of best by and use by dates other than when buying Bread and milk just to make sure I get the newest and freshest stuff.
Everything I just eat until it doesn't smell, taste or look right anymore.
Never seems to cause me any issues. I had Branston pickle from my grans cupboard after she died that (unopened) was about 5 years out of date but utterly lovely. Well matured.
Everything I just eat until it doesn't smell, taste or look right anymore.
Never seems to cause me any issues. I had Branston pickle from my grans cupboard after she died that (unopened) was about 5 years out of date but utterly lovely. Well matured.
I have an Indian cash & carry that's open to the public a few miles from me so pop in a couple of times a year to stock up.
Buy the 1kg tubs of garlic and ginger paste (about £3.50 compared with £1.90 for 100g in the high street supermarkets). Lives in the corner of the fridge being used a couple of times a week quite happily for 6 months, never had any problems.
Same as most things, if it looks or smells wrong, chuck it. If not, it's fine.
Manufacturers obviously have a vested interest in getting you to bin your half used product and buy a new jar from them every 4 weeks...
OzzyR1 said:
I have an Indian cash & carry that's open to the public a few miles from me so pop in a couple of times a year to stock up.
Buy the 1kg tubs of garlic and ginger paste (about £3.50 compared with £1.90 for 100g in the high street supermarkets). Lives in the corner of the fridge being used a couple of times a week quite happily for 6 months, never had any problems.
Same as most things, if it looks or smells wrong, chuck it. If not, it's fine.
Manufacturers obviously have a vested interest in getting you to bin your half used product and buy a new jar from them every 4 weeks...
Fundamentally correct I think. The Mk 1 eyeball, sense of smell, ability to perceive changes etc that we should all possess are capable of discerning whether food has gone off IMO. However some caution must be exercised and I would certainly err on the side of safety. Buy the 1kg tubs of garlic and ginger paste (about £3.50 compared with £1.90 for 100g in the high street supermarkets). Lives in the corner of the fridge being used a couple of times a week quite happily for 6 months, never had any problems.
Same as most things, if it looks or smells wrong, chuck it. If not, it's fine.
Manufacturers obviously have a vested interest in getting you to bin your half used product and buy a new jar from them every 4 weeks...
I have eaten processed food such as pancakes well beyond the sell by dates and never had the slightest problem . Stored in a fridge actually maintaining low temperatures such foodstuffs do last well beyond the sell by dates which are clearly designed to allow some erring always on the minimalist side of marketing more product.
I would excerise serious caution with all shellfish and indeed all fish are concerned. Deterioration here can be very quick and not at all easily detected. Fish's and marine bodies are real trouble, if consumed, in a deteriorating state. Really serious illness can all too easily result.
But on bread and cakes and the like I think the examination of each item should suffice. Harvo bread has relatively short sell by dates but in reality remains fit for human consumption for weeks after that period. Probaably months but I eat it before then. Down to each individual to excerise his senses and judgement.
Thanks everyone for all the answers.
OzzyR1 said:
I have an Indian cash & carry that's open to the public a few miles from me so pop in a couple of times a year to stock up.
Buy the 1kg tubs of garlic and ginger paste (about £3.50 compared with £1.90 for 100g in the high street supermarkets). Lives in the corner of the fridge being used a couple of times a week quite happily for 6 months, never had any problems.
Exactly why I started this thread! Popped into my local Asian supermarket the other day and found some lovely stuff but they're all in big jars. Buy the 1kg tubs of garlic and ginger paste (about £3.50 compared with £1.90 for 100g in the high street supermarkets). Lives in the corner of the fridge being used a couple of times a week quite happily for 6 months, never had any problems.
Japveesix said:
I honestly don't think I ever seriously look at or take any notice of best by and use by dates other than when buying Bread and milk just to make sure I get the newest and freshest stuff.
And cheese, although for the opposite reason, the "best before" date on most brie and camembert tends to be a reasonable indicator of when they're about ready to eat. Rather nicely most of the supermarkets reduce the price when they're nearly ready too I find pesto can start to grow some mould when it's been sat in the fridge for a few weeks, but that's about the only thing that ever gets thrown out in our house
Mobile Chicane said:
If it smells ok, it's good to eat.
However the answer to the OPs question is to buy 1Kg bags of ginger, garlic and chillies from the 'ethnic' part of the freezer section at Asda.
These are frozen into single-use blocks and are ridiculously cheap compared with buying fresh.
And no mould is visible. However the answer to the OPs question is to buy 1Kg bags of ginger, garlic and chillies from the 'ethnic' part of the freezer section at Asda.
These are frozen into single-use blocks and are ridiculously cheap compared with buying fresh.
I source mine from the local asian supermarket. Haven't tried frozen chillies though. I suppose they don't lose heat?
soad said:
RizzoTheRat said:
We chop and freeze our excess home grown chillis, they possibly lose a bit of heat but they still seem pretty potent to me.
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