27 year old golden syrup - is it safe

kazwookie

For the cost of a new tin, I'd dump it.

New tin is a couple of quid in a local supermarket

bouicca21

I am another who is notorious for not believing in use/sell by dates.  But the fact that it has been opened, that there seems to have been a reaction between contents and tin that resulted in loss of ‘shiny’ interior surfaçe, says throw it out.

PS suet kept in cupboard goes rancid.  Once made a steak and kidney pudding with old suet ....  fortunately the filling was unaffected.

Pollycat

bouicca21 said:

I am another who is notorious for not believing in use/sell by dates.  But the fact that it has been opened, that there seems to have been a reaction between contents and tin that resulted in loss of ‘shiny’ interior surfaçe, says throw it out.

PS suet kept in cupboard goes rancid.  Once made a steak and kidney pudding with old suet ....  fortunately the filling was unaffected.

Yes, that was the conclusion I came to.

I opened the packet which had been previously opened (maybe about 5 years ago looking at the 'best before' date) and it had gone to powder.

I revised my menu and bought some more next time I went shopping.

Apintplease

My husband came home from work one day last year and said new owners were taking over the cafe and he had to go in and clear it out and had to skip loads of stuff

I told him to get his bum back into work and skip dive

8 tins of golden syrup retrieved in the haul, all unopened, all tins in perfect condition, all a year or so out of date. Im working my way through them - slowly

I was in M&S year before last, they had suet reduced to 25p, I bought the lot, stored it in the fridge as I worked my way through it, had heart failure last week when I had to pay £1.35 for a new packet 

I have things like food colourings and dried spices with the prices in d's in the cupboard 

I wouldn't have used the open tin in the OP though with how it was described. One of the tins rescued from the skip decided to leak this year - still unopened - it was dumped

sillyvixen

Don't use it!! As you have said the shiny coating inside the tin has gone, the shiny coating has in fact been dissolved by the contents and is now part of the syrup, I doubt that would be good for you!!

booter

Well, I have tried golden syrup from a tin waaaaay past is bbe date. I thought it'd be ok to cook with. Granular texture wasn't a problem for me - after all, it is sugary! The darker colour wasn't a problem either. It did taste metallicy (is that a word?!) But I thought it'd be ok in baking. I was wrong - the metallic taste tainted all the flapjack, so although I ate a slice (and lived to tell the tale) it all went in the bin - it simply didn't taste nice 😕 What a waste!
I now only buy golden syrup in jars or plastic bottles - never any metallic taste no matter how old (although I have a "thing" about plastic smells tainting food) And if I'm suspect about any ingredient I try it before incorporating into a recipe. (I also always crack eggs into a cup before using - I've been caught out a couple of times by rotten ones - and there's no mistaking that smell!🤢)