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

Popperwell

I cannot eat sliced meat within two days if opened there's usually too much and I hate throwing it away(yet it always says that on the packet)so I risk three or four days if its been in the fridge and covered and I have done similar with an open can of baked beans or whatever. I have to go by sight as I don't have a strong sense of smell...I am more like to be careful if its a dairy product.

peb

No, not what cam first but a bit of advice please!

1 The egg

Boiled two eggs on saturday night, in accordance with the Two Fat Ladies instructions placed in a bowl of cold water. These were intended to make egg mayonnaise sandwiches for Sunday but I had some ham that needed using instead. Came down this morning and noticed they were still there - in the water. If they had been out of the water I would simply use them for tomorrows butties but 48 hours in a bowl of water? Safe?

2 The Chicken

As part of my yellow stickered plunder bought a chicken from the co-op which needs to be cooked or frozen today. Looked in the freezer - no room - shut it and put tins of beans on it! Will get home at about 6 and due out at 7ish - could I cook long and slow whilst I am out - say gas mark 3 for 3 hours covered in foil?

Any advice appreciated.

heavenleigh

The eggs should be fine, you will know the minute you crack one if it's off, i now batch cook mine on a sunday and they go in oh's salad for work for the whole week!

The chicken....no idea but i'm sure someone else will know about that one.....me i'd stick it in the fridge and cook it tomorrow (it doesn't automatically go 'off' at midnight) xx

peb

Ta - yeah I also do eggs in advance but just concerned about them sat in water!

Chcken - don't tell anyone but it was use before yesterday and I don't worry about a day but I will about two!

lizzyb1812

What is your concern re them being sat in water? Have you ever drunk squash from a jug that's been sat over a day? The water has hardly had time to go brackish.

peb

I suppose because the skin of an egg is imperious (have I got the right word) and therefore the water could somehow get in. I suppose I am thinking of when you store truffles and eggs in an eggbox and the egg then tastes of truffles!
Probably overthinking it!

Egg sarnies it is for tomorrow and I will put the chicken on long and low.

Thanks ladies/gents,

Take_it_like_a_man,_sonny

Any fool knows the egg came before the chicken. As for watertight, it is impervious.

DundeeDoll

Wow, i have never thought of batch hard boiling eggs. Egg mayo sarnies are my fave but i never have time at lunch time. D'oh! (peb, i rather like the idea of an imperious egg, particularly in this a jubilee year)

heavenleigh

Will you two pack it in, it's too late for me to be laughing out loud at a computer screen when the kids are asleep! ...... the joys of the English language!!!!!!!

To settle it lets go for impenetrable...... eggs do not have semipermeable membranes (as factored in osmosis) therefor being water tight unable to be penetrated closed to, hermetic, immune, impassable, impassive, impenetrable, impermeable, imperviable, inaccessible, invulnerable, resistant, sealed, tight, unaffected, unapproachable, unmoved, unpierceable, unreceptive, watertight

Sorry couldn't help myself rofl xx

DundeeDoll

Do you not like me and sonny egging each other on? Just our little yolk. We'll be all white soon. Ova to you sonny :rotfl: (do you think people would shell out for wit like this? I might have cracked it!)