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Excellent article! The first 3 § are a little off-putting but then it gets great. This amused me: "She grew up in a family where, when concerned if the milk wa
by bambax 8y ago
Excellent article! The first 3 § are a little off-putting but then it gets great.
This amused me: "She grew up in a family where, when concerned if the milk was OK, they wouldn’t look at the expiry date but instead sniff it."
Everyone in our family always did this and so do I; I never realized people did otherwise. If it smells good (or doesn't smell at all), eat it. If it smells kind of bad, wash it. If it still smells bad after washing, then throw away.
- homarp 8y agohow do you wash milk ?
- Frye 8y agoLuke warm water for 45 seconds
- DanBC 8y ago(I don't know why you're downvoted). I guess they mean "wash the neck of the bottle". The neck can gather milk that goes off and smells even if the rest of the milk is ok.
- bambax 8y agoHa! ;-) I don't wash milk; if it smells bad, the whole bottle goes down the drain. But everything that's solid is washable, esp. cheese, meat, etc. And indeed, keeping rice for too long is really not recommended.
- FreeFull 8y agoSometimes milk ends up spoiling before the expiry date, so checking if it's still good is a good idea anyway.
- chobeat 8y agono boiling? My mother always boiled it a little bit and checked how it coagulates.
- tonyarkles 8y agoYeah, it definitely surprised me in my 20s when I'd have a new roommate/girlfriend who would go through the fridge and throw out anything with an overdue best before date. > "Best Before" doesn't mean "Bad After"! At our house now, when we look through the fridge and see something approaching/past its Best Before date, we brainstorm something we can make to use it up before it spoils. Pudding is a great way to use up any quantity of milk. Random Vegetable Soup: throw all of the questionable vegetables in to the Instant Pot with some chicken stock, pressure cook for 10 minutes, blend with a stick mixer. If cheese grows a bit of mold, we just cut it off and put it in a new container. Meat gets kept in a fridge that is just a hair too cold, and either gets used right away or frozen. Writing all of this, I just realized that we produce very little food waste here. Occasionally some leftovers are forgotten in the back of the fridge and get moldy, but that's pretty rare.
- bitexploder 8y agoCheese though. Obviously it probably won’t make you sick, but when you see mold on the surface it has permeated the cheese. Recommend throwing it out. All the other stuff you mentioned is fine.
- droopyEyelids 8y agoI’ve lived my whole life breaking this advice. No ill effects yet!
- stevekemp 8y agoMe too, more often in my student days rather than recent past though. If I found mould on my cheese I'd just slice it off, and eat the rest. (Though now I think about it, if I saw bread with mould on it I'd throw the whole loaf away.)
- bazooka2th 8y agoI agree, the bread-type mold must be different from the cheese-type. Maybe the loose structure of the bread makes it easy for the mold to spread thin and quick through the air gaps, while in cheese it propagates more slowly. Idk, but if there's mold on one part of the loaf the whole thing smells funky.
- benj111 8y agoYeah off milk smell is really obvious. The only thing that I'm aware you should be really careful about is leftover rice. Bacteria can produce a toxin which isn't destroyed by heat and can be deadly. I cant think of any other counter examples to where, if it isn't obviously off, it's ok.