What's your rule of thumb for throwing out cooked food in the
refrigerator. I am never sure - if it looks ok and smells ok...?

Yesterday (Wednesday) I threw out a heel of meatloaf I had prepared last
Saturday and had been eating since (I live alone and a meatloaf takes a
while to eat). Still looked and smelled fine but... The feral cats
outside enjoyed it anyhow.

How do you judge when to throw out something that still seems ok?

TIA

Ken


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"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always
remember that it is still an evil." - Max Lerner

On 2008-06-05, Ken wrote:

How do you judge when to throw out something that still seems ok?

If, after eating it, you can shit through the eye of a needle at fifty feet,
you kept it too long.

nb

notbob wrote in message
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On 2008-06-05, Ken wrote:

How do you judge when to throw out something that
still seems ok?

If, after eating it, you can shit through the eye of a needle
at fifty feet, you kept it too long.

Now there's a visual going into lunch I didn't need...

The Ranger

"notbob" wrote in message
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On 2008-06-05, Ken wrote:

How do you judge when to throw out something that still seems ok?

If, after eating it, you can shit through the eye of a needle at fifty
feet,
you kept it too long.

nb

Rats, now I have cranberry juice all over my monitor!

Ken wrote:
What's your rule of thumb for throwing out cooked food in the
refrigerator. I am never sure - if it looks ok and smells ok...?

Yesterday (Wednesday) I threw out a heel of meatloaf I had prepared last
Saturday and had been eating since (I live alone and a meatloaf takes a
while to eat). Still looked and smelled fine but... The feral cats
outside enjoyed it anyhow.

How do you judge when to throw out something that still seems ok?

TIA

Ken


My hard and fast rule is that if it has green fuzz growing on it and it
wasn't originally green toss it.

On Jun 5, 12:23 pm, Ken wrote:
What's your rule of thumb for throwing out cooked food in the
refrigerator. I am never sure - if it looks ok and smells ok...?

Yesterday (Wednesday) I threw out a heel of meatloaf I had prepared last
Saturday and had been eating since (I live alone and a meatloaf takes a
while to eat). Still looked and smelled fine but... The feral cats
outside enjoyed it anyhow.

How do you judge when to throw out something that still seems ok?

TIA

Ken

--
"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always
remember that it is still an evil." - Max Lerner

It depends on what your own system can handle. If you eat it and it
makes you sick afterwards, you kept it too long. I can't eat hamburger
after the 3rd day; hard boiled eggs the same; fried chicken the same.
Proteins are the most touchy things, for me. It doesn't always smell
or look bad when it is bad.

N.

On Jun 5, 1:23*pm, Ken wrote:
What's your rule of thumb for throwing out cooked food in the
refrigerator. I am never sure - if it looks ok and smells ok...?

Yesterday (Wednesday) I threw out a heel of meatloaf I had prepared last
Saturday and had been eating since (I live alone and a meatloaf takes a
while to eat). Still looked and smelled fine but... The feral cats
outside enjoyed it anyhow.

How do you judge when to throw out something that still seems ok?

I usually keep stuff a week before declaring it dead. Even if it
looks ok,
if it's 7 days old, it's gone.

Cindy Hamilton

Ken wrote in message
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What's your rule of thumb for throwing out cooked
food in the refrigerator. I am never sure - if it looks
ok and smells ok...?

Not necessarily. I find certain cooked foods (ground beef,
fish, edamame) don't handle time very well. They break down
quickly but don't necessarily put off a stench more than when I
first sealed them in the package. But if I reheat them and eat
them, I'm as likely to spend the next 24 hating life.

One of my BIL can't smell anything -- even when it's gone
ff -- so he's quite likely to eat it unless it's become
penicillin. His internal system is much more error tolerant
than mine (or many members of his immediate family.)

My MIL's scheduled is:
Chicken/Turkey - 2 days refrigerated (2 months frozen)
Beef
gb - 3 days (3 months)
steak/roast - 4 days (3 months)

Fish - 1 day (3 months)
Pork
sausage - 4 days (6 months)
chops - 3 days (5 months)
roasts - 5 days (6 months)
Sauces -- 3 days (4 months)

She hasn't experienced an upset stomach from food longer than
I've been alive so I guess her table's pretty accurate.

The Ranger

On Thu 05 Jun 2008 12:39:24p, George Shirley told us...

Ken wrote:
What's your rule of thumb for throwing out cooked food in the
refrigerator. I am never sure - if it looks ok and smells ok...?

Yesterday (Wednesday) I threw out a heel of meatloaf I had prepared last
Saturday and had been eating since (I live alone and a meatloaf takes a
while to eat). Still looked and smelled fine but... The feral cats
outside enjoyed it anyhow.

How do you judge when to throw out something that still seems ok?

TIA

Ken


My hard and fast rule is that if it has green fuzz growing on it and it
wasn't originally green toss it.


What if it was originally green and originally had no fuzz? Is that
borderline?

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notbob wrote:

On 2008-06-05, Ken wrote:

How do you judge when to throw out something that still seems ok?

If, after eating it, you can shit through the eye of a needle at fifty feet,
you kept it too long.

There is nothing like a good dose of food poisoning to inspire someone to pitch
old food in the garbage sooner.

notbob wrote:

On 2008-06-05, Ken wrote:

How do you judge when to throw out something that still seems ok?

If, after eating it, you can shit through the eye of a needle at fifty feet,
you kept it too long.

Wow! It really increases your accuracy that much? Cool!


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George Shirley wrote:

Ken wrote:
What's your rule of thumb for throwing out cooked food in the
refrigerator. I am never sure - if it looks ok and smells ok...?

Yesterday (Wednesday) I threw out a heel of meatloaf I had prepared last
Saturday and had been eating since (I live alone and a meatloaf takes a
while to eat). Still looked and smelled fine but... The feral cats
outside enjoyed it anyhow.

How do you judge when to throw out something that still seems ok?

TIA

Ken


My hard and fast rule is that if it has green fuzz growing on it and it
wasn't originally green toss it.

Also, if anything on it moves.


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Ken wrote:

What's your rule of thumb for throwing out cooked food in the
refrigerator. I am never sure - if it looks ok and smells ok...?

Yesterday (Wednesday) I threw out a heel of meatloaf I had prepared last
Saturday and had been eating since (I live alone and a meatloaf takes a
while to eat). Still looked and smelled fine but... The feral cats
outside enjoyed it anyhow.

How do you judge when to throw out something that still seems ok?

TIA

Ken



Maximum 5--6 days for anything that was *thoroughly* cooked the first
time; less for meats etc cooked 'rare'. That's assuming your fridge is
at the proper temp of 4 C/40 F (or slighly lower).

Divide up your meatloaf into slices, wrap it well and put it in the
freezer.

Wayne Boatwright wrote:

On Thu 05 Jun 2008 12:39:24p, George Shirley told us...

Ken wrote:
What's your rule of thumb for throwing out cooked food in the
refrigerator. I am never sure - if it looks ok and smells ok...?

Yesterday (Wednesday) I threw out a heel of meatloaf I had prepared last
Saturday and had been eating since (I live alone and a meatloaf takes a
while to eat). Still looked and smelled fine but... The feral cats
outside enjoyed it anyhow.

How do you judge when to throw out something that still seems ok?

TIA

Ken


My hard and fast rule is that if it has green fuzz growing on it and it
wasn't originally green toss it.


What if it was originally green and originally had no fuzz? Is that
borderline?

--
Wayne Boatwright

Some years ago my mother came to visit me. She found something mouldy
at the back of my fridge, handed it to me and asked me if I was bringing
my work home with me I was doing microbiological research at the
time.

On Thu 05 Jun 2008 04:58:21p, Arri London told us...



Wayne Boatwright wrote:

On Thu 05 Jun 2008 12:39:24p, George Shirley told us...

Ken wrote:
What's your rule of thumb for throwing out cooked food in the
refrigerator. I am never sure - if it looks ok and smells ok...?

Yesterday (Wednesday) I threw out a heel of meatloaf I had prepared
last Saturday and had been eating since (I live alone and a meatloaf
takes a while to eat). Still looked and smelled fine but... The
feral cats outside enjoyed it anyhow.

How do you judge when to throw out something that still seems ok?

TIA

Ken


My hard and fast rule is that if it has green fuzz growing on it and
it wasn't originally green toss it.


What if it was originally green and originally had no fuzz? Is that
borderline?

--
Wayne Boatwright

Some years ago my mother came to visit me. She found something mouldy
at the back of my fridge, handed it to me and asked me if I was bringing
my work home with me I was doing microbiological research at the
time.


I have found a few "scientific experiments" in my fridge over the years, a
couple, if fact, that I couldn't even recognize what it was to begin with.
:-)

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Wayne Boatwright
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