We recently got a new fridge, so all of the really interesting stuff, like the 2-year old lactose-free ricotta got chucked. We have since replaced these interesting items, but they have just begun their journey towards expiration.
However . . . we have a bottle of fish sauce in the fridge with an expiry of 12/23/2005. We still use it. It is a big bottle, and we only use a couple tablespoons at a time.
And, yes, if the half-and-half passed the sniff test, we would probably still use it.
We could have two categories....Older, and Risky Condiments hardly count, they last for ever, right? I think of expiration dates as more of suggestions than something exact.... I routinely eat yogurt that's a month or more past it's expiration date. Well, I guess if I routinely ate the yogurt, it wouldn't GET that old in the first place, but you know what I mean.....
I might win for the most out dated items found in my fridge, unfortuneately mine is an 18 month span of time and would still probably not be cleaned out if it were not for the return of my in-laws from their mission and thus I had to clean out the fridge, I think I found a few things out dated by a year, but at least 10 thing which had expiration dates on them.
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So....
What flavor of ice cream are you planning on making? Chocolate Chip Cholera?
It's probably still good to use. Open it and see. If it's not colored and clumpy, I'd probably still use it. I've done it before.
By worse, do you mean "older" or "more risky?"
We recently got a new fridge, so all of the really interesting stuff, like the 2-year old lactose-free ricotta got chucked. We have since replaced these interesting items, but they have just begun their journey towards expiration.
However . . . we have a bottle of fish sauce in the fridge with an expiry of 12/23/2005. We still use it. It is a big bottle, and we only use a couple tablespoons at a time.
And, yes, if the half-and-half passed the sniff test, we would probably still use it.
We could have two categories....Older, and Risky
Condiments hardly count, they last for ever, right? I think of expiration dates as more of suggestions than something exact.... I routinely eat yogurt that's a month or more past it's expiration date. Well, I guess if I routinely ate the yogurt, it wouldn't GET that old in the first place, but you know what I mean.....
I found some cream cheese in my fridge yesterday with an expiration date of sometime in May 2008, yikes!
I might win for the most out dated items found in my fridge, unfortuneately mine is an 18 month span of time and would still probably not be cleaned out if it were not for the return of my in-laws from their mission and thus I had to clean out the fridge, I think I found a few things out dated by a year, but at least 10 thing which had expiration dates on them.
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