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

BitterAndTwisted

Cooked chicken is not likely to turn in a mere six hours if it was chilled when you bought it. 24 hours in sweltering weather in direct sunlight, maybe.

hoglet121

If it smells OK I'd eat it.

liney

I'd have eaten them - packed lunches are often around for that long.

TravellingAbuela

hoglet121 wrote: »

If it smells OK I'd eat it.

Same here, nothing gets thrown away in our house without going through the sniff test first!

[Deleted User]

I too would eat them after the smell test.Rarely anything gets binned in my house.As previously said unless its been lying in sweltering sun for a day I would not hesitate to eat it

honeythewitch

I would sniff and eat too. People survived without fridges for a long time.

vivatifosi

When I read the title of this, I thought someone had done the same as me and made a mistake in making biscuits. They were so hard and dense you could have used them to practice discus.

Sniffing and eating is the way forward though...

dawn_rose

Hiya

Food related query when it says once opened use within two days do you pay any attention to it. The item in question was a cheese and onion pasty from aldi and still within its use by date. X

CupOfChai

Nope.


(too short)

ruby_eskimo

I'm quite lax when it comes to "best before" dates, so as long as it smells ok and hasn't obviously gone mouldy then I would eat it.