How long to keep?
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How long to keep?
How long can I safely keep pasta meat sauce for?
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For ever in liquid nitrogen. But you have to keep the dewer topped up.
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7 years. After that it will mutate into a virulent superbug-sauce
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Are we talking frozen or just refrigerated, Blossom?
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And are we talking about eating it or keeping it to see if it turns into something that will crawl out of the bowl and strangle you in the night?
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Oh I thought this was a thread about how long to keep a man! Pasta sauce cooked and in the fridge, about 3 days max
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I can safely keep it longer than that. I wouldn't eat it though.
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'Safely' meaning it won't crawl out and strangle you?Burbage wrote:I can safely keep it longer than that. I wouldn't eat it though.
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cooked on Saturday night. Wondering if it would be ok for lunch tomorrow.
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Sure no problem as long as you don't have a sensitive stomachBlossom wrote:cooked on Saturday night. Wondering if it would be ok for lunch tomorrow.
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You know Aliya's answer to that....until he pops his clogs from eating Blossum's left over pasta sauce.Aliya wrote:Oh I thought this was a thread about how long to keep a man!
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i'm aiming for a week...i froze stuff yesterday..a week later, hopefully i wont die
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Frozen? Anything up to a month if it's kept in a proper freezer (including fridge-freezer), a week in the icebox at the top of a fridge.
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Just one month for cooked pasta - or is that due to the meat sauce? I'm sure I've got some veggie lasagna that's a wee bit older than that
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i always figure these things as instant weight loss plan if they go wrong
i nearly ate 1 year old yogurts yesterday but stopped myself..they smelt and tasted fine.....lol!
i nearly ate 1 year old yogurts yesterday but stopped myself..they smelt and tasted fine.....lol!
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I can feel a frozen food cull coming on
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I tend not to worry to much about frozen food, but roughly observe Use By dates on chilled food. Food I've cooked myself, I would freeze or eat up next day.
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You cooked the sauce on Saturday & it's been in the fridge and you want to eat it today (Tues.) as I read it? I'd say, yes, it's fine. I eat the leftovers from dinner for lunch all the time & I know I've eaten stuff I made on a Thur or Fri night on a Monday for lunch and none of it has made me sick. The only exception would be if you know it sat out a looooong time on Saturday before you put it in the fridge - then I might have concerns.
Basically, when stuff is still sitting in the fridge and I know it's been a week (or more ) I dump it in the bin, no questions asked. Use by dates are pretty much strictly adhered to by me - I don't even want to get into 'whether or not it smells ok to eat'
Basically, when stuff is still sitting in the fridge and I know it's been a week (or more ) I dump it in the bin, no questions asked. Use by dates are pretty much strictly adhered to by me - I don't even want to get into 'whether or not it smells ok to eat'
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One problem I found in Singapore was cooling the food completely before refrigerating it; I worried it was hanging around too long. I was a lot more fussy there, but then my kitchen was outdoors.
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Advice I was given some time ago, and stick by because it works: If you're going to refrigerate or freeze something, don't wait around for it to cool before putting it in the fridge because it'll only spend more time at a temperature that encourages the nasties to breed.Kooky wrote:One problem I found in Singapore was cooling the food completely before refrigerating it.
Put it straight in the fridge or freezer, even if it's straight off the stove - this will not damage the fridge, it is made to handle it.
Tip: make sure you don't put hot dishes or pots straight on the fridge/freezer shelf as it may crack or melt. We put a cork mat under hot things to protect the shelf.
When freezing, we always label things using a labelmaker which prints the date on the label. This helps us manage what we've stored, saves throwing stuff out and we have no more 'mystery' items in the freezer. (I mentioned this somewhere in an earlier post about personal productivity websites)
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Thanks, Bender - I didn't know that was the preferred method. I always cook too much so often freeze a third portion for when Neo's away.
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Bender - your posts make me feel like a totally disorganised kitchen slut.
Labelmaker? Where's the fun in taking out a container from the freezer for dinner only to find out it's a rhubarb tart?
Labelmaker? Where's the fun in taking out a container from the freezer for dinner only to find out it's a rhubarb tart?
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