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

recovering_spendaholic

Do they smell okay? I'd eat them as long as they were very thoroughly cooked - I'd probably put them in a casserole.

JIL

Have they changed colour? Do they smell OK? I always think about sausage rolls sat in a bakers shop for a day. They aren't refrigerated.
Cook them well.

mlarmour

If they don't smell off, if they haven't changed colour they should be fine. I'd just cook them well.

Crowdpleaser

Weve just been camping. Took sausages frozen in a cool bag on the thursday morn. Didnt eat them til fri night. We are still alive. Cook em. Eat em.

PasturesNew

Dunno. Eat them, then post back here at the same time tomorrow ... if you don't post then we'll know the answer for the next time we're asked

aklmatthews

As someone who has trained and worked in the food industry most of my working life i would not eat them even if they smell ok and have not changed colour if you had had ice packs in the cool bag or if they had been frozen to start with i probably wood but as there was nothing to keep them cool no i would not

luckycat99

They went kind of yellowish yesterday but now they've been in the fridge they look normal sausage colour.

aklmatthews

luckycat99 wrote: »

They went kind of yellowish yesterday but now they've been in the fridge they look normal sausage colour.

even if something looks and smells ok it doesn't always mean it is safe to eat i would not risk my health for the sake of a pack of sausages.

LE3

I am usually pretty lax about food safety, camp regularly (proper camping not glamping with electricity) & have eaten things that others wouldn't, however I don't think I would eat these.

Without actually being able to assess the sausages it's difficult because for me it would completely depend on what temperature the sausages reached in the cool bag - if I touched them & they still felt cold then I may risk it but anything at body temperature or above, NO
So if the sausages had started frozen, or had been in a coolbox with an ice pack then yes, but 30 mins in a hot car and 6.5 hrs in same cool bag in the "shade" sounds like perfect breeding grounds for bacteria to me & for a packet of sausages then I wouldn't risk it.

lobbyludd

if I was going to cook them and can make sure they are thoroughly cooked through for the appropriate amount of time at the right temperature then I would cook and eat them.

definitely not on another barbecue. I'd cut them in half lengthways and chop into small bits, fry off and then transfer to a casserole, at the beginning of a long boil then simmer. They'll disintegrate so it's up to you if this is something you'd want to do. The other, and probably most important point is that anything that comes near the sausages when raw must be thoroughly cleaned and dried and must not come anywhere near the cooked sausages or things that the cooked sausages will touch. this includes surfaces/cooking utensils, hands etc - and you must understand good dishcloth etc hygiene so as not to just spread any bacteria around (all washing/scrubbing/drying implements must not be reused after washing/drying the raw food touched surfaces) and be aware of water droplets etc. that's not trying to be over the top - this is stuff I naturally do and know about from working on tissue culture in a lab.

If all of that is too much - bin the sausages. I'm no pernicketty ninny when it comes to food hygiene/sell by dates etc but I've realised that I am often routinely far safer in food handling than other people are because of the above and can therefore get away with cooking and eating stuff that others can't because there's very little risk of cross-contamination in my kitchen. If you are not confident about that, bin them.

I recently binned some smoked mackeral that I had got out for a packed lunch that I forgot and left on the side all day whilst I was at work - wasn't going to cook it, boiling hot day so away it went
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