18 months past its use-by date Oyster Sauce...

[StevieBee]

...unopened, forgotten about at the back of the cool cupboard. What harm can a dob of it do on a Saturday night stir fry.

Well according to my arse...a lot! Three days of radiator-emptying in the bog. On the home straight now but my word what a vicious, evil thing its been.

What other horror stories are there involving the old rusty water?

[Type R Tom]

How can you be sure it was the sauce and not anything else? I would have thought unopened would have been fine.

[StevieBee]

Type R Tom said:

How can you be sure it was the sauce and not anything else? I would have thought unopened would have been fine.

Process of elimination - only thing I ate different to my OH since Saturday - give or take the odd Freddo!

[colin_p]

I have got a tin of ratatouille (Asda) in the cupboard that went out of date in 2006.

I might eat it one day when I fancy it. Could be in 2027 or 2032, who knows as I haven't fancied it as yet in the fourteen or so years it has already sat in the cupboard.

I might not eat it at all and instead make it a family heirloom and pass it down to my children.

[anonymous-user]

it is pasteurisation so no bacteria in it, only taste is effected.

[numtumfutunch]

Amateur

The wife decided to eventually embrace salad dressings this Easter

Weirdly they were all a little bit more brown than I thought ideal

A couple of weeks ago I realised that the mustard she'd been using had a best by date of 2007

To the best of my knowledge we're still fine

Our salad dressing are less brown this week and probably a bit less 'complex' in their taste

Cheers

[gooner1]

I can confidently declare that the OP's symptoms are minor compared
to a full bedridden week inflicted on myself, by a then girlfriends mother who
served me up a dish of chilli con carne. It was the full tin of uncooked
Chilli beans what did for me. The second helping, despite it's name, didn't. The bh.

[boxst]

That is odd. Unless the bottle is damaged in some way there isn't a lot to go 'off'. If the bottle was damaged then you'll have bacteria growing but even so nothing really nasty I wouldn't have thought.