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  • squeaky
    squeaky Posts: 14,129 Forumite
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    My rule of thumb for stuff in the fridge - well wrapped - is...

    Five days for red meats...

    Three days for chicken and sea foods.

    You can find more official info here.... nhs live well food storage
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  • Savvy_Sue
    Savvy_Sue Posts: 46,014 Forumite
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    squeaky wrote: »
    My rule of thumb for stuff in the fridge - well wrapped - is...

    Five days for red meats...

    Three days for chicken and sea foods.

    You can find more official info here.... nhs live well food storage
    See, that page says
    Follow any storage instructions on the label and don't eat meat after its use-by date.
    So according to THAT I should have cooked my pork on Thursday and eaten it the same day.

    Well, we're having some of it for lunch today, so if I'm not back ... you'll know why! (The rest is in the freezer.)
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  • Savvy_Sue
    Savvy_Sue Posts: 46,014 Forumite
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    Savvy_Sue wrote: »
    See, that page says

    So according to THAT I should have cooked my pork on Thursday and eaten it the same day.

    Well, we're having some of it for lunch today, so if I'm not back ... you'll know why! (The rest is in the freezer.)
    We're both still fine.

    And there's a Boy coming home for a week on Monday, so he'll get through at least a drawer of the freezer for us. So there'll be room for more Whoopsies! :j :rotfl:
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  • rosie383
    rosie383 Posts: 4,981 Forumite
    Phew..... glad you lived to tell the tale!
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  • MrsCD
    MrsCD Posts: 1,791 Forumite
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    I think I was told on a food hygiene course a few years ago that you should cook defrosted meat within 24 hours, even if you have kept it in the fridge, and eat it within 3 days, also keeping it below 5 degrees C in the fridge.
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  • mrbadexample
    mrbadexample Posts: 10,805 Forumite
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    If I make a creme catalan (like a creme brulee but cinnamon and lemon instead of vanilla), using 500ml cream / milk, how many 3 inch cinnamon sticks should I use to infuse? They're fresh, as I only bought them today. One or two do you think?
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  • Savvy_Sue
    Savvy_Sue Posts: 46,014 Forumite
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    mrbadexample wrote: »
    If I make a creme catalan (like a creme brulee but cinnamon and lemon instead of vanilla), using 500ml cream / milk, how many 3 inch cinnamon sticks should I use to infuse? They're fresh, as I only bought them today. One or two do you think?
    Does the answer to this depend on how much you like cinnamon? :rotfl:

    More seriously, I did a quick google, and most of the recipes I found quickly said 1 cinnamon stick, but they did not say how long it should be, AND the last one I looked at said 2. And I'm afraid by then I'd shut all the other recipes down, so I couldn't quickly check whether the quantities for the rest of it were similar ...

    Does that help?
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  • mrbadexample
    mrbadexample Posts: 10,805 Forumite
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    Savvy_Sue wrote: »

    Does that help?

    Sort of. Think I'll try one, then two next time if it's not cinnnammmonnny enough. :D
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  • Savvy_Sue
    Savvy_Sue Posts: 46,014 Forumite
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    mrbadexample wrote: »
    Sort of. Think I'll try one, then two next time if it's not cinnnammmonnny enough. :D
    I am happy to act as a taster if required. (I love cinnamon!)
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  • geminilady
    geminilady Posts: 1,922 Forumite
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    Is it ok to freeze corn beef and can I just defrost and eat it?
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