Morrisons scraps "use by date" on milk..

[rjfp1962]

in favour of sniff test...! (Just check nothing drops in it from your nose...! )

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59928650

[sherman]

Good idea.
If it doesnt smell funny or leave lumps in your tea its probably still fine.
Milk can be fine for a couple of days out of the fridge. Over a week in a decent fridge and it can still be fine too.

[NDA]

Also doubles as a Coronavirus check. If it smells fine, you're infected.

[FredericRobinson]

Makes it impossible to find the freshest stuff when buying, I rarely buy milk more than once a week, this would make it more likely for me to waste milk, not less

[monthou]

FredericRobinson said:

Makes it impossible to find the freshest stuff when buying, I rarely buy milk more than once a week, this would make it more likely for me to waste milk, not less

It'll have a best-before.

[Matt_E_Mulsion]

Sounds like a load of waffle to me. It even states in the article that the dates will stay the same. I won't make a jot of difference to my consumption of milk.

[sherman]

Matt_E_Mulsion said:

Sounds like a load of waffle to me. It even states in the article that the dates will stay the same. I won't make a jot of difference to my consumption of milk.

Wont make a jot of difference to most peoples consumption but if it stops a few chucking stuff out as soon ss the pack says when actually its still fine to consume then it achieves its goal.

[hyphen]

People with covid can't smell/taste.So they will die from milk poisoning.

It's a conspiracy to get covid deaths up

[Nickbrapp]

Makes sense to me, up until yesterday (the 8th) I’ve been drinking organic milk from Waitrose (full fat) in my tea that was “use by” the 29th

I think modern fridges are so good that stuff just doesn’t go off like it used to, veg seems to hold up fine too.

[hyphen]

Nickbrapp said:

...I think modern fridges are so good that stuff just doesn’t go off like it used to, veg seems to hold up fine too.

I wouldn't look to the fridge, I would look to whatever they are adding to the food!!

[Nick Pappagiorgio]

Nickbrapp said:

Makes sense to me, up until yesterday (the 8th) I’ve been drinking organic milk from Waitrose (full fat) in my tea that was “use by” the 29th

RIP Nickbrapp

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FredericRobinson said:

Makes it impossible to find the freshest stuff when buying, I rarely buy milk more than once a week, this would make it more likely for me to waste milk, not less

How would it make you waste milk?

[LunarOne]

I think it's a good idea. I've never put any faith in use by dates and always use my nose. Having said that, I use lactose-free milk and that keeps for several weeks even after opening. It's always finished before there's any danger of it going off. Perhaps it's the lactose that the bacteria feast on in milk!

[craigjm]

A large percentage of people don’t understand the difference between best before and use before dates anyway. If you are one of the idiots throwing out food on the best before date anyway then this won’t make any difference to you. Use by dates should be such that it’s literally starting to rot when the date passes. The sniff test should trump all though

[miniman]

Replacing a date printed on a milk carton with a date printed on a milk carton in the interest of reducing waste seems like a great example of virtue signalling to me.

[Sheepshanks]

I find the supermarket bought milk smells a couple of days before the date anyway - and that’s with it kept in our very cold fridge.

The bottled milk we have delivered just has a letter code on it - I’m not aware it means anything, you just have to be careful to use it in order.

[Chebble]

Sheepshanks said:

I find the supermarket bought milk smells a couple of days before the date anyway - and that’s with it kept in our very cold fridge.

The bottled milk we have delivered just has a letter code on it - I’m not aware it means anything, you just have to be careful to use it in order.

It’s the opposite for me - I find that milk (Sainsbury’s mostly, so supermarket milk) lasts a few days beyond its use by date in our fridge.

[Sheepshanks]

Chebble said:

It’s the opposite for me - I find that milk (Sainsbury’s mostly, so supermarket milk) lasts a few days beyond its use by date in our fridge.

Our’s is Sainsburys too - we buy low fat milk there but don’t use it much. I don’t have much sense of smell but edgy milk stands out to me.

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Chebble said:

Sheepshanks said:

I find the supermarket bought milk smells a couple of days before the date anyway - and that’s with it kept in our very cold fridge.

The bottled milk we have delivered just has a letter code on it - I’m not aware it means anything, you just have to be careful to use it in order.

It’s the opposite for me - I find that milk (Sainsbury’s mostly, so supermarket milk) lasts a few days beyond its use by date in our fridge.

It's entirely dependent on the time of year.
You'll find Winter milk will last far longer than Summer milk.

[Evoluzione]

craigjm said:

FredericRobinson doesn’t understand the difference between best before and use before dates anyway. If you are one of the idiots throwing out food on the best before date anyway then this won’t make any difference to you. Use by dates should be such that it’s literally starting to rot when the date passes. The sniff test should trump all though

Harsh