Thread: Food spoilage?
View Single Post
  #20 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking
Blinky the Shark Blinky the Shark is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 4,409
Default Food spoilage?

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.


--
Blinky
Killing all posts from Google Groups
The Usenet Improvement Project --> http://improve-usenet.org
Found 5/08: a free GG-blocking news *feed* --> http://usenet4all.se