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« Reply #125 on: 21 July, 2023, 11:32:37 pm »
A bit late to mention this but my xmas pud was 2016 vintage. Tasted good.
Christmas pud lasts ages. I posted a 2007 pud back on page 1 of this thread (in 2021).

Christmas cake lasts very well too. Should there still be any (un-iced) in the post-Christmas sales, I'll buy a stock and use them for cycling food. That has been known to take them 5 years past best before. The current oldest says BB 26/01/2021.

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« Reply #126 on: 26 August, 2023, 07:38:44 pm »
Unopened 'fresh' Aioli / Garlic mayo.  Use by 10 July.  Looks Ok, film lid not under pressure, but maybe not... 
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« Reply #127 on: 26 August, 2023, 08:44:20 pm »
Christmas cake lasts very well too. Should there still be any (un-iced) in the post-Christmas sales, I'll buy a stock and use them for cycling food. That has been known to take them 5 years past best before. The current oldest says BB 26/01/2021.

Weren't wedding cakes, which are like Christmas cake, designed to feed the family when the inevitable baby emerged n months after the wedding?

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« Reply #128 on: 15 November, 2023, 01:20:08 am »
Decided I wanted fruity jam on my rice pudding tonight.
Sainsbury's 'Taste the Difference' Raspberry Conserve.
BBE APR 2013

Very nice it was too!

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« Reply #129 on: 15 November, 2023, 08:07:47 am »
Rice pudding is always improved with a little raspberry wine.
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« Reply #130 on: 15 November, 2023, 12:14:15 pm »
Rice pudding is always improved with a little raspberry wine.

 ;D ;D ;D

No sign of fermentation. Lid button was down.
Sugar content in preserves is too high for fermentation anyhow...

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« Reply #131 on: 04 January, 2024, 04:48:13 pm »
I've just retrieved from the fridge, where they've been since I took them home from a party the Monday before Christmas (Monday is the start of the weekend among the circles I move in*), two flapjacks and two energy balls. All homemade, so no BB dates. Flapjacks obviously last forever. The energy balls are a mixture of seeds, cocoa, sugar, and butter or oil or some sort of fat. They're every bit as tasty as they were three weeks ago.

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« Reply #132 on: 06 January, 2024, 05:28:36 pm »
‘Dry’ foods (<10% water) will last indefinitely, though oils/fats way go rancid and flour taste ’stale’ after a few months.
This won’t kill you but might be unpleasant.
Crisps and similar snacks, once opened, absorb moisture from the air and go soft.

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« Reply #133 on: 06 January, 2024, 05:44:57 pm »
‘Dry’ foods (<10% water) will last indefinitely, though oils/fats way go rancid and flour taste ’stale’ after a few months.
This won’t kill you but might be unpleasant.
Crisps and similar snacks, once opened, absorb moisture from the air and go soft.
Suddenly, I need Pringles.
I know they are bad for me.

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« Reply #134 on: 07 January, 2024, 03:11:42 am »
Bad for the planet.
Much unrecyclable waste.
Will not buy...

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« Reply #135 on: 11 February, 2024, 09:13:49 pm »
Found today Cloves BBE 2000.  24yrso.  ;D   

Beat that if you can... ;)

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« Reply #136 on: 11 February, 2024, 09:22:25 pm »
I have older!

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« Reply #137 on: 11 February, 2024, 09:50:03 pm »
Impressive.  :) Which year?

Breaking news.  Have a new jar of cloves  BBE Dec 2025.  I reckon the yr 2000 cloves, may have been bought in 1998 ish.
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« Reply #138 on: 11 February, 2024, 10:06:27 pm »
A spice rack, fixed to the kitchen wall, pre-dates my moving here in 1999.

Even the salt bears a ‘use by 1999’ marking.

I’ve never had the tuits to do anything with the spice rack...

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« Reply #139 on: 11 February, 2024, 10:30:42 pm »
I don't suppose anything's going to happen to salt. It's several million years old already. And the cloves will be harmless, but also, I suspect, fairly useless.
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« Reply #140 on: 12 February, 2024, 08:33:47 am »
I don't suppose anything's going to happen to salt. It's several million years old already. And the cloves will be harmless, but also, I suspect, fairly useless.

Cloves aren't harmless.

Eugenol, Iso eugenol and β-caryophyllene are all respiratory and skin irritants, and not volatile enough to be gone yet.

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« Reply #141 on: 05 March, 2024, 12:37:54 pm »
What does the panel think on the longevity of hot chilli sauces, stored in fridge.  e.g. Encona hot pepper sauce (BBE4 wks) @4 months, Sriracha (BBE 6wks) at 7 months?
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« Reply #142 on: 05 March, 2024, 03:49:35 pm »
What does the panel think on the longevity of hot chilli sauces, stored in fridge.  e.g. Encona hot pepper sauce (BBE4 wks) @4 months, Sriracha (BBE 6wks) at 7 months?

Are they mouldy? Taste ok? Then they are. Dates are legislative, by and large.
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« Reply #143 on: 05 March, 2024, 11:07:26 pm »
Item:

Whitbread "Best" Bitter, BBE of Aug 2003

Probably undrinkable even when fresh, but how about after 20 years?

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« Reply #144 on: 09 March, 2024, 04:50:29 pm »
The boiled egg I ate last night was from a box with the eat-by date of 28th December.  It floated a bit but was OK.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

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« Reply #145 on: 17 March, 2024, 09:50:05 am »
A jar of Aldi Bockworst with a best before date of June 2020.    I think these must have dated from my original Brexit stash....
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« Reply #146 on: 20 March, 2024, 04:03:09 pm »
We finished the old 950g jar of Nutella today. It was delivered in April 2022.

I tried to read its ‘Best Before’ date.

It was illegible as many of the dots had worn off.

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« Reply #147 on: 20 March, 2024, 04:24:18 pm »
I miss nutella (I'm not really allowed to eat it cos it's full of whey powder, therefore is lactose DETH, but the 'vegan' alternatives are NOT the same or as nice). Maybe my best lactose-pills test  :demon:

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« Reply #148 on: 20 March, 2024, 04:50:42 pm »
I was going to say this one is delish but it's also made with skimmed milk powder so...
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