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08/18/2005 09:20:24 AM · #26 |
What if the apple pie is on the counter nice and warm and nobody's around?
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08/18/2005 09:28:12 AM · #27 |
In my house anything dropped doesn't even hit the floor! I have a labrador - do I need to say more?
Pauline
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ps and I don't mean just food!
Message edited by author 2005-08-18 09:30:37. |
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08/18/2005 09:44:26 AM · #28 |
In my family, we have the fourteen day rule.
... Oh, that's about birthday presents, not dropping food on the floor. |
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08/18/2005 09:48:39 AM · #29 |
Originally posted by notonline:
Originally posted by greatandsmall:
A couple of days ago I threw out the last of a pie. My husband was intending to eat it. Since it was in a plastic container and on top of the trash I got it out and he ate it.
Is that worse than if it were to sit on the floor all day? It wasn't Grandma's, it was from Publix. |
hahahaha thats just nasty. My rule or way of thinking is, if it falls on the floor then its garbage. If it's IN, ON or NEAR the garbage then it's garbage.
Then again what do I know about food. I open my fridge and there is beer,wine, drink mix and a phone to order dinner. |
I have a friend sort of like that, as soon as anything gets close to its expiration date it is gone. If the milk expires in a couple days she won't touch it...too close. She has thrown out loaves of bread cause it was too close. I've even seen canned goods in her trash.
Heck as long as the bread hasn't changed colors I still eat it, sure it's a little harder but ya warm it up, add peanut butter and alls good. The expiration date is a GUIDE...you have to use your nose and sometimes the kids taste buds to see if it is really bad or not.
Usually I go by the "if I beat the animals and bugs (trust me some places I've lived in and visited, this was an issue) to it, and I'm not in public, I eat it" rule.
Message edited by author 2005-08-18 09:49:19.
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08/18/2005 10:04:03 AM · #30 |
Originally posted by Alienyst:
Originally posted by kpriest:
I'll agree and add - even if footprints are visible on top of the pie! mmmmmmm pie..... |
Ok..that does it. I just snarfed again. My keyboard can't take all this. I am going to have to limit reading your posts to when I have no beverages near by. |
LOL! I have only heard the word snarf one other time....my dad said a snarf is a guy who goes around smelling little girls bicycle seats. (he called his brother/my uncle a snarf)
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08/18/2005 10:12:34 AM · #31 |
Message edited by author 2005-08-22 10:06:25. |
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08/18/2005 10:25:00 AM · #32 |
People who obsess over "expiration dates" are my best friends, LOL. The "sell-by" date, especially, is a joke. The markets have these really strict rules re: turnover of food, and it has no connection to edible reality. Milk, for example... The sell-by date tells the market when it has to be off the shelf, but the milk itself is good for a couple weeks after the sell-by if it's stored properly. If it smells ok, it's good to go.
One of the best things you can do for yourself, food-and-budget-wise, is haunt the meat counter in the early morning when the butcher slaps his discount stickers on meat that's approaching the sell-by date. Buy some ordinary steak, say, at deep discount. Then take it home, get it out of the plastic, put it on a plate and cover it with a clean kitchen towel (so it can breathe) and put it in the reefer for as much as a week. It will age to perfection, and you'll end up with tender steak that tastes almost like prime meat for a tiny fraction of the cost.
No kidding. Why you think prime meat is so expensive? They AGE it, is why. It loses weight as moisture evaporates, something like 25% by weight, and of course they have to charge for the time and energy expended. Granted, true "prime" beef is also a better-marbled cut to begin with, but a lot of the quality is in the aging.
Lamb also ages well. Pork doesn't, and chicken/turkey DEFINITELY do not respond to aging; they turn rancid really fast.
Robt.
Message edited by author 2005-08-18 10:26:10.
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08/18/2005 10:30:52 AM · #33 |
I'm one of the date checkers...and last night it nearly killed us all!
Last night I noticed a dozen eggs in my fridge that were dated for today and freaked...I hate the concept of wasting food (hence my rubenesque figure, I'm sure) so I decided to boil all of them and make egg salad. I put the eggs on to boil, then went in another room. After about 10 minutes I headed back into the kitchen to see if they were boiling yet (because we know a watched pot never boils) and was greeted by the smell of natural gas. Seems that the water boiled over and extinguished the flame under the pot, leaving the gas still going full throttle. Yikes. I opened the doors, turned on fans, and hoped we wouldn't blow up. Anyway, after finishing the creation of my egg salad, my house smelled like a combination of natural gas and boiled eggs. Damn those sell-by dates anyway. If not for that, I would have had a more fragrant evening! LOL ;)
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08/18/2005 10:38:09 AM · #34 |
Originally posted by laurielblack:
I'm one of the date checkers...and last night it nearly killed us all!
Last night I noticed a dozen eggs in my fridge that were dated for today and freaked...I hate the concept of wasting food (hence my rubenesque figure, I'm sure) so I decided to boil all of them and make egg salad. I put the eggs on to boil, then went in another room. After about 10 minutes I headed back into the kitchen to see if they were boiling yet (because we know a watched pot never boils) and was greeted by the smell of natural gas. Seems that the water boiled over and extinguished the flame under the pot, leaving the gas still going full throttle. Yikes. I opened the doors, turned on fans, and hoped we wouldn't blow up. Anyway, after finishing the creation of my egg salad, my house smelled like a combination of natural gas and boiled eggs. Damn those sell-by dates anyway. If not for that, I would have had a more fragrant evening! LOL ;) |
I donno, sounds pretty fragrant already, to me... How was the egg salad? The sell-by date on eggs, btw, by law allows for a minimum of 2 week's storage in the home refrigerator after that date. I can't recall when is the last time I found a bad egg, and I keep mine for a LONG time as I rarely use them except as an ingredient in something else. Eggs keep REALLY well... Better than milk, that's for sure....
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08/18/2005 10:46:45 AM · #35 |
Originally posted by bear_music:
Originally posted by laurielblack:
I'm one of the date checkers...and last night it nearly killed us all!
Last night I noticed a dozen eggs in my fridge that were dated for today and freaked...I hate the concept of wasting food (hence my rubenesque figure, I'm sure) so I decided to boil all of them and make egg salad. I put the eggs on to boil, then went in another room. After about 10 minutes I headed back into the kitchen to see if they were boiling yet (because we know a watched pot never boils) and was greeted by the smell of natural gas. Seems that the water boiled over and extinguished the flame under the pot, leaving the gas still going full throttle. Yikes. I opened the doors, turned on fans, and hoped we wouldn't blow up. Anyway, after finishing the creation of my egg salad, my house smelled like a combination of natural gas and boiled eggs. Damn those sell-by dates anyway. If not for that, I would have had a more fragrant evening! LOL ;) |
I donno, sounds pretty fragrant already, to me... How was the egg salad? The sell-by date on eggs, btw, by law allows for a minimum of 2 week's storage in the home refrigerator after that date. I can't recall when is the last time I found a bad egg, and I keep mine for a LONG time as I rarely use them except as an ingredient in something else. Eggs keep REALLY well... Better than milk, that's for sure.... |
And...skim milk stays fresh a LOT longer than regular milk....
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08/18/2005 10:52:15 AM · #36 |
See, that why I like dpc. It's so darn educating. The dates on packages make me paranoid, too. But, I'll typically only throw something out if I didn't really like it to begin with. If it is somethign I really like, it probably doesn't even get near the date. hahaha..
Back to the original thread.
I typically don't eat off of my floor, but I have a three year old, and he goes by a 3 month rule. :) He'll pick somehting up and say,"Is this old?" We have him paranoid that if he eats something old, he will get really really sick or something. If we didn't, he would be eating everything he finds. |
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