Food safety

Ceirdwyn

I left school in 1996, we only had on hour for cookery then and that was with a class of 30 and 15 working ovens. It was all open a can of this, add a packet of that, microwave it type food :eek: I vividly remember spending weeks on a project of inventing a new soft drink (including designing packaging, logos, etc). Mine was a small tin of peaches in syrup, blitzed with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream and then topped with lemonade. It was nice, but I wasn't learning to cook at all.:mad:

At least they are teaching them to make actual meals. This is the first time she's ever not had chance to finish her cooking, it's not a regular thing. Making the savoury crumble, a roux from scratch, turning that into a cheese sauce, assembling the whole thing and making sure it was attractively presented just took slightly longer than it should have done. Knowing DD she probably took forever weighing out her ingredients so they were all exactly right, down to the gram:doh:

shegirl

Ceirdwyn wrote: »

I left school in 1996, we only had on hour for cookery then and that was with a class of 30 and 15 working ovens. It was all open a can of this, add a packet of that, microwave it type food :eek: I vividly remember spending weeks on a project of inventing a new soft drink (including designing packaging, logos, etc). Mine was a small tin of peaches in syrup, blitzed with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream and then topped with lemonade. It was nice, but I wasn't learning to cook at all.:mad:

At least they are teaching them to make actual meals. This is the first time she's ever not had chance to finish her cooking, it's not a regular thing. Making the savoury crumble, a roux from scratch, turning that into a cheese sauce, assembling the whole thing and making sure it was attractively presented just took slightly longer than it should have done. Knowing DD she probably took forever weighing out her ingredients so they were all exactly right, down to the gram:doh:

I left (well,sat GCSE's)in 1998 and we had 2 hours for cookery back then -once a week.We didn't cook great things but we had time to do things properly lol Made some awfully sickly sweet tarts once!

Ceirdwyn

shegirl wrote: »

I left (well,sat GCSE's)in 1998 and we had 2 hours for cookery back then -once a week.We didn't cook great things but we had time to do things properly lol Made some awfully sickly sweet tarts once!

Ah, I see. No, my school was pretty dire. We were pretty good at modern languages, but if that wasn't your thing, you'd had it. It got knocked down a few years ago, 2006, despite the fact they were building new bits of it in the late '90's.
DD's school is fantastic, but they have so many lesson to fit in there are no 2 hour lessons until you go into year 9 and start GCSE prep.

Part_Mouse

withabix wrote: »

Hopefully the only thing that is 'Part Mouse' is your username and not the contents of your packet of rice!

No nasties in the rice tonight thankfully.

BitterAndTwisted

To my knowledge dried rice is never packaged with a "sell by" or a "use by" date on it. Those terms are only used for fresh and perishables. The date is most likely a "best before" date which means the product is guaranteed to be in optimum condition until that date but not inedible after it. You'll know whether the oil in the germ of brown rice has turned it rancid by the smell.

If it smells OK it's edible.

Part_Mouse

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

To my knowledge dried rice is never packaged with a "sell by" or a "use by" date on it. Those terms are only used for fresh and perishables. The date is most likely a "best before" date which means the product is guaranteed to be in optimum condition until that date but not inedible after it. You'll know whether the oil in the germ of brown rice has turned it rancid by the smell.

If it smells OK it's edible.

Sorry I ment to type best before.

auntymabel

The correct procedure is to put the dish in the fridge to eat later. It will gradually migrate to the back of the fridge and the next time you come across it it will be mouldy when you can throw it out without a second thought.

shegirl

Ceirdwyn wrote: »

Ah, I see. No, my school was pretty dire. We were pretty good at modern languages, but if that wasn't your thing, you'd had it. It got knocked down a few years ago, 2006, despite the fact they were building new bits of it in the late '90's.
DD's school is fantastic, but they have so many lesson to fit in there are no 2 hour lessons until you go into year 9 and start GCSE prep.

Mine was carp too and knocked down after I left sixth form.We may have had 2 hours for food tech but the teacher was awful,didn't really do much and the school in general was abismal-that's been knocked down too!!

Have to say it would've been year 9 or 10 (think year 9 was still going through the 3 but can't remember) onwards that we had two hours for food tech too (didn't really want to do food tech but given the choice between that,woodwork and 'textiles' where they done naff all,it was the better option and we had some serious fun!!)

I did make an amazing mousakka once though.I think,apart from the beef and herb soup that me and a friend accidently put a whole pot of herbs in while messing around,that was the only savoury food we ever cooked!

marmiterulesok

Part_Mouse wrote: »

I found a fair bit of rice in the cupboard that was best before late Jan this year :eek: I don't want to waste it, is it ok to use? its whole grain rice.

Thanks

I have used opened rice which was past it's 'best before' date and was quite happy to do so.I got a shock a few weeks ago when I opened a sealed,dry cardboard box of organic brown rice (a few months past its 'best before' date),assuming that it would be fine and a moth flew out...

aliasojo

VfM4meplse wrote: »

I'm living proof, currently getting through Oat-so-Simple that "expired" in 2005.

Oh you would make my OH cry.

He is ridiculous about not eating things that are out of date or just slightly past their best.

He put a whole onion in the kitchen caddy thing yesterday because 'it was soft'. Was it heck, the outside was a little brown but once the outer layer was peeled off it was perfect inside. He got it cut up in last night's dinner. :rotfl:

OP, I'd be eating the rice too.