Peteff
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| posted on 18/1/10 at 10:07 AM |
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We make our own bread, it goes in the freezer in batches and never gets chance to go stale. Home made bread made the old fashioned way goes hard but
can still be toasted, shop bread in a plastic bag lasts a few days then grows a green fur coat. The fridge roulette game is fun, get it down your
neck. The green stuff is like penicillin so it might be good for you.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Vindi_andy
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| posted on 18/1/10 at 12:25 PM |
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Generally with canned goods your ok if the can is undamaged.
My dad used to work in food processing plant and once the product is cooked canned and sealedthe bacteria is dead.
Its only if the can is damaged and air and bacteria can get in that you have problems. Also with him being a Chemist we also had the lecture about it
not being the actual bacteria that makes you ill but the by productof its digestive process i.e. its poo.
As has been said previously freezing below -5 make bacteria dormant doesnt kill it. When you defrost it the bacteria multiply like crazy hence you
should never refreeze as there will be an exponentially larger no to multiply like crazy when you thaw it out the second time.
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02GF74
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| posted on 18/1/10 at 01:37 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by MikeRJ
Has anyone noticed just how long you can keep a loaf of sliced bread these days before it starts going mouldy? I hate to think how many chemicals are
pumped into it.
yep, I daresay that flour has preservatvies added too.
apparently dead bodies remain fresh for a week longer thqan they used to due to all the preservatives ingested.
re: the slimy chicken - that is what hot curries (madras, vindaloo and phall) were made for. The climate in soutern india means that meat goes off
quickly and hte peeps are too poor to be able to bin it. To disguise the rotting flavour, and maybe the bad after effect, the curries are made to be
particulalry hot.
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 18/1/10 at 09:23 PM |
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Fat from meat can still go rancid in the freezer. However a few days past the use by date is fine with the exceptions of cooked rice, milk and
fish.
Missus loved that program too, apparently the bloke's wife did it with him and was sick as a dog though he was fine. I suppose it depends on
what you're made of..
My mum had a go at me a couple of years ago for throwing out a tin that had a 12 1/2p label on it, went out of date in 1977! (when did they stop doing
half pennies?)
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McLannahan
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| posted on 18/1/10 at 09:55 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Ninehigh
Fat from meat can still go rancid in the freezer. However a few days past the use by date is fine with the exceptions of cooked rice, milk and
fish.
Missus loved that program too, apparently the bloke's wife did it with him and was sick as a dog though he was fine. I suppose it depends on
what you're made of..
My mum had a go at me a couple of years ago for throwing out a tin that had a 12 1/2p label on it, went out of date in 1977! (when did they stop doing
half pennies?)
1984 - I remember it well!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_penny_(British_decimal_coin)
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flak monkey
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| posted on 18/1/10 at 10:03 PM |
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If it smells ok I eat it.
Otherwise it goes in the dog 
Not much goes to waste when I am about 
Never been ill through out of date food either. Virtually all dates are 'best before' anyway so just means it might not be at its best
after
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 18/1/10 at 10:42 PM |
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Never been ill through out of date food, but have been ill through not properly cooked food... and 3 weeks of putting jalapenos on pizza every day!
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martyn_16v
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| posted on 18/1/10 at 10:48 PM |
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How many days do you think we should give it before we pronounce him dead and ask the old bill to go and find his corpse?
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iank
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| posted on 18/1/10 at 10:56 PM |
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Originally posted by martyn_16v
How many days do you think we should give it before we pronounce him dead and ask the old bill to go and find his corpse?
What he's died in the last 5 mins?
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
Anonymous
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Vindi_andy
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| posted on 19/1/10 at 02:05 PM |
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Blue mould on bread is carcenogenic DONT EAT IT.
There is a reported case of the father of one of my dads work colleagues who loved the taste of blue bread mould, he died at the age of 53 with
extremely advanced stomach cancer attributed to the bread mould
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 19/1/10 at 02:12 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by David Jenkins
quote:
Originally posted by MikeRJ
Has anyone noticed just how long you can keep a loaf of sliced bread these days before it starts going mouldy? I hate to think how many chemicals are
pumped into it. It gets a bit stale after a few days but still makes good toast.
We've got a breadmaker as well, but inevitably we end up with part of a mouldy loaf as out bread consumption is rather variable!
Never noticed, because we never buy that rubbish! We've got a breadmaker, which produces excellent bread - just 5 minutes of work to set it up,
then take the hot, fresh loaf out a few hours later.
And that DOES get stale fairly quickly, 'cos it's REAL bread! So it either gets eaten, or sliced then frozen. 
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 19/1/10 at 04:00 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by MikeRJ
We've got a breadmaker as well, but inevitably we end up with part of a mouldy loaf as out bread consumption is rather variable!
We normally slice the bread then freeze it - just take out what we need as and when.
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 19/1/10 at 07:18 PM |
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Nothing goes mouldy in our house... The only thing I can remember actually going out of date (apart from sauce) was locked away!
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