Daily Mail - "best before" challenge

Pretty sure there is something on TV this week along similar lines (maybe it has been on already).

A nutritionist, a chef and a doctor investigate meals prepared with 'out of date' food or something like that.
 
There seems to be a lot of people like my sister who will look at the best before dateson fruit and even if the fruit still is fresh and good, she won't go near it. It just shows the distance people feel from food stuff - where they can't even trust their own opinion of the freshness in front of them and instead rely on some corporation to tell them.
 
We have some food a couple of years 'out of date'. Stuff like relish etc. Honey lasts forever.
 
I judge it myself, if it smells ok, colour is ok, tastes ok - then I eat it.

You know when its bad, I cooked rashers that were IN date but gone off recently - the smell of them cooking alerted me to the fact they were off.
 
If you get a fridge with "biofresh" technology you can keep and use food longer than the use by date. They even say that in the fridge instructions. I think it cools to zero degrees but dos'nt freeze rather than the 3 to 5 degrees of a normal fridge.
 
Great - just some stone age bread required and you have a sandwich.

Before the term was even invented.
 
Yes Pique; zero Degrees at controlled humidity. Read page four of this link to explain [broken link removed]
 
That's a good trick. 0 deg C doesn't freeze ?
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Different things freeze at different temperatures and pressures. Pure water freezes at 0 C.
 
I always go by the following. Best Before does NOT mean rotten after!!!
I trust my nose more than any date.
 
I understand that there is a difference between "Best before" and "Use by". It is not advisable to eat something after the "use by" date. It may apply to dairy products and meat.

Brendan
 
HighFlier said:
If you get a fridge with "biofresh" technology you can keep and use food longer than the use by date.
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A friend has a Liebherr BioFresh fridge. She proudly showed me the vegetables she had in it, which were six weeks beyond their "best before" date, yet still looked as if they had only been picked the day before! It was pretty impressive.
 
A few years ago I found an unwrapped Murray Mint in the attic in with some old lego would have been there 15 years or more - it was a bit furry to eat though, so I washed it first.
 
Brendan said:
I understand that there is a difference between "Best before" and "Use by". It is not advisable to eat something after the "use by" date. It may apply to dairy products and meat.

Brendan
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Tut tut Brendan - did you not read the article which covers this very ground/distinction?!
 
I go by the shelf life....a product designed to sit on the shelf for a week would probably be okay a day or two later (assuming it's been stored properly & smells ok), a product desgning to last a year or moreshould be fine for an extra 1 or 2 months, at least.
A friend and I found some well out of date beers...by about 2 or 3 years. I've lived to tell the tale!!
 
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