Out of date butter

studysep

I have two 250g blocks of anchor butter in the fridge (one is almost half used) which I forgot to check the date of over time. It's out of date now (3rd Jan 2012) so can I use it as normal or do I dispose of it?

marrbett

Its absolutely fine, keep eating it!!
Hth

csnann

Sniff it, if its gone bad it will stink!

Ezmondino

It will last for months later. I'm still eating Can't believe it's not butter 4 months after the date.

pawsies

Fine, in the olden days people used to leave butter out as they didn't have a fridge.

It'll be fine, I've used butter gone out by a month, no side effects

charlie-chan

I have eaten butter out of date too and I am currently using a tub that is a week out of date with no side effects.

fozziebeartoo

Agree with everyone else!

If the butter had gone rancid, you wouldnt be asking the question - you'd have chucked it without a second thought!!

Rancid butter = 'orrible whiff :rotfl:

hilstep2000

Mine lives in a butter dish in a cupboard so it doesn't go hard, it stays like that till I finish it which can be two weeks or more! The others are right, you'd soon know if it was off!

joannaspanner

I made custard with custard powder that was 16 months out of date lol

DCFC79

If it looks ok and smells ok then its ok

RetireEarlyBlog

You might want to scrape off the top layer, it get a little cheesey looking.