Dates on Tinned Food (My last post?)

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Dossing around at home today - nobody here but the dogs and hens - and the plague or rabbits.

Poked around in the pantry for something to eat - needed to be quick, easy, warm and nice. Found a tin of luxury rice pudding buried at the back - into a bowl, nuked it for 3 minutes - yummee !!

Then washed the tin to go in the recycling - Best Before Feb 05 !!

Should I:
A - go to bathroom, stick fingers down throat, like in student drinking days?
B - dash off to the boat and head south, as that's what I would like to be doing when I pop my clogs?
C - forget all about it and continue looking for gainful employment.

My gut feel (pun!) tells me that C is a safe option. These dates must be set with a clear safety margin, wouldn't they?

Thinking about the vittals on board - I am sure there are many boats with a locker full of cans of beans, soups, fruit etc, many of which are out of date but would still be eaten if there was no option.

Or would you ditch them and go hungry?

(PS Anybody fancy shooting some rabbits?)
 
Unless the tin has "blown" or the contents smell "off" then I would go ahead and enjoy.

The problem I have is rummaging through the beer cellar (bilge) to ensure all the beer is drunk before it is OoD /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity"
 
Option C

Fear not young Nick, we regularly eat stuff well past its sell-by date. However, you do need a couple of pieces of specialist equipment to detect if the stuff has gorn orf. The Mk1 manually operated nose and tongue. We work on the principle that if it doesn't smell or taste iffy then its fine.

We are in good company, Sir Terence Conran, he of restauranteur fame, is renowned for eating old stuff inc scraping mould off food prior to devouring. I wouldn't do that meself but old food in a sealed container, no probs.
 
Sounds like just the excuse you need to lift anchor and head south...... Ive been trying to get the sack so I can justify sellin up and going, but they just wont let me go

GO FOR IT...
 
We seem to keep stuff in tins a good 3 or 4 years past the date, in fact when SWMBO gets home from shopping now, with the exception of the beer I chuck most of it straight in the bin, hardly seems worth putting it away.
 
To test tin before opening ....

Most tins are vacuum packed .....

Liquid content tins should be held horizontal and end smackede sharply with palm of hand ... sound shoulkd be a sharp crack ... that is fluid hitting other end in a vacuum. If tin is off - sound will be more dull ....

Tin stuff is actually normally partly pre-cooked before packing and therefore lasts considerably longer than the date on it.

My lass upset me when she first went on the boat ... emptied all my old tins out of cupboard and refused to allow me to open and prove they were still ok !! Binned the lot !

As long as tin is still sealed and not punctured / broken etc. they go for years ......

Any other product that does not survive as well will often be very apparent when tin is opened .............
 
Hm, not so sure

I'm worried. Reference to Terence Conran or Chris Enstone is completely irrelevent as they're both well past their sell-by date too! Hence no danger of rejection, probly.
 
I remember as a sprog (barrack rat) being given tins of bully on a hike and scoffing them with no prob.
They had been sent to Korea 15 years earlier and found their way to S'pore.
Perhaps because they had no Best Before date they couldn't go out of date.
Didn't someone find Capt. Scott's tinnies were still ok in his Antarctic hut 50 years later?
 
Oh Sh!t .. ricin poisoning

" Found a tin of luxury rice pudding buried at the back - into a bowl, nuked it for 3 minutes - yummee !!"

Ingestion: If someone swallows a significant amount of ricin, he or she would develop vomiting and diarrhea that may become bloody. Severe dehydration may be the result, followed by low blood pressure. Other signs or symptoms may include hallucinations, seizures, and blood in the urine. Within several days, the person’s liver, spleen, and kidneys might stop working, and the person could die.
Skin and eye exposure: Ricin in the powder or mist form can cause redness and pain of the skin and the eyes.
Death from ricin poisoning could take place within 36 to 72 hours of exposure, depending on the route of exposure (inhalation, ingestion, or injection) and the dose received. If death has not occurred in 3 to 5 days, the victim usually recovers.
Showing these signs and symptoms does not necessarily mean that a person has been exposed to ricin.
 
Best before date....

is there on most food stuffs to comforfably ensure taste and colour remain acceptable.

If the tins are intact the product will keep for donkeys years. Colours may change due to minor oxidation, texture may disappear and colour may cloud / darken / lighten / turn purple (depends upon what it is).
 
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