How long after Best Before Dates would you keep and eat tinned food?

Catslovelycats

How long after Best Before Dates would you keep and eat tinned food?

I've just cleaned out the corner cupboard and found an embarrassing array of tinned food - most is BB 2013 and a few go back as far as 2011 and 2008. :eek:

I don't want to chuck them unnecessarily. Neither do I want to plan a meal only to find I open the tin and it's inedible.

What are your thoughts?

TIA

Torry_Quine

As long as the tin isn't blown or showing signs of damage then I would use them . Tinned foods last for ever

Catslovelycats

Thanks Torry Quine.
That's kind of my thinking too.
I love your signature BTW.

powerwin

catslovelycats wrote: »

I've just cleaned out the corner cupboard and found an embarrassing array of tinned food - most is BB 2013 and a few go back as far as 2011 and 2008. :eek:

I don't want to chuck them unnecessarily. Neither do I want to plan a meal only to find I open the tin and it's inedible.

I would chuck all of them. The problem is that over time, metal can dissolve into the food. So, even if they might taste ok, they can contain high concentrations of dissolved metal which won't be good for you.

Yours are pretty old anyway.

Chuck and put it down to experience. Then institute a better system for making sure food doesn't go to waste.

Catslovelycats

powerwin wrote: »

Chuck and put it down to experience. Then institute a better system for making sure food doesn't go to waste.

Most definitely!
Thanks

t14cy_t

I had a tin dated 2001 over the weekend. tasted as it should. open it an see and smell it. x

ivyleaf

I recently made beans on toast and didn't notice until after we'd eaten it that the tins were dated 05/2014. They were fine though.

Evaporated milk, on the other hand, goes off after a while. It changes colour and tastes wrong.

Pollycat

powerwin wrote: »

I would chuck all of them. The problem is that over time, metal can dissolve into the food. So, even if they might taste ok, they can contain high concentrations of dissolved metal which won't be good for you.

Yours are pretty old anyway.

Chuck and put it down to experience. Then institute a better system for making sure food doesn't go to waste.

Do you have a link backing this up?

Personally, I would use them - assuming they smell and taste OK.

Spendless

What are the tins? I'd have less of a problem eating bb peas for example, than I would rice pudding due to the milk.

Slinky

Would depend what it is. Anything like tinned grapefruit or baked beans I wouldn't risk, things that are acidic or have vinegar in. When you open tins you're advised to decant any unused contents into a non-metallic bowl because of the potential for chemical reactions with the metal once the contents are subjected to the air.

Torry_Quine

A relative of mine worked in a supermarket when it was being refitted and tins of force dated from the war years were discovered, this was in the 80s. They were given to the staff and everything was totally fine.