Quick Questions on food safety / sell by / use by dates

nearlyrich

One of my OMG moments of my early teens was seeing a lad on a youth club trip open a tin of beans on a train and eat them cold from the tin, that was in 1975 and he is still alive and working in the post office. Never seen anyone eat cold tinned spaghetti though so that could be fatal:eek:

epskie

Hi All,

My minced beef for cottage pie goes out of date on Wednesday, it has already gone brown and when I'm cooking it it smells like liver! Is it going to be ok and wil it taste like it smells? Thanks

Pink.

Hi epskie,

We aren't there to smell or taste it for you, so you're going to have to make the decision yourself.

What I do in general is look at anything suspect, if it looks ok then I'll smell it, if it smells ok then I'll taste a tiny bit and if it tastes ok then I'll eat it. Saying that I'm a bit funny with mince and if I'm not happy with the smell it would put me off and I'd probably bin it....simply because I probably wouldn't enjoy the meal anyway.

Once you've had more opinions I'll add this to our food safety/use by dates thread.

Pink

cjez_2

I have been there. I usually look to yahoo for answers. They're pretty good there. Personally f it has changed colour and it smells bad I'd bin it because I'd be too put off to eat it.
The thing about mince is that it can be ok in the middle but the bacteria can get to the outside of it

gibson123

Brown it in a pan on its own (no onions etc), if it is off, you will be able to tell straight away, as it will smell off, sometimes it can be the packaging rather than the mince that smells strange.

gibson123

LOL reminds me of the Liverbirds, Beryl is eating her beans out of the tin and Sandra (Nerys Hughes) says "don't you like your beans ON toast then" I was only tiny but I laughed for ages.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Don't forget the tins of rice pudding as well. You need all the essential student food groups - beans, spaghetti and rice - before you graduate to cooked meals.

melanzana

Is there another way of eating tinned spaghetti and beans?

Ie been doing that all my life and am still here. What a !!!!!! I must be! Cold baked beans are to die for. I think they taste better than warmed TBH.

But then I am an eternal student and don't want to grow up, evah..... Ha ha.

ragz_2

I've done it, just tastes a bit... beefier? DH prefers it like that. Brown is fine, green is not! If it's actually off the smell would be repulsive rather than just strong. But it's your risk to take, I claim no responsibility if you decide to eat it!

Cat501

Don't often eat cold baked beans but cold spaghetti is one of my go-to hangover foods! And I don't even have the excuse of being a student

As for rice pudding, cold, straight out the tin with a dollop of jam is the only way to go!:D

eta this thread is such a relief.....:D