Expiration Dates

most food will not go bad if you can cook it as you can bring the temp up high enough to kill any bacteria youcan essential eat anything but alota foods like ramen will eventually start to degrade and the packages willl begin to leach after awhile if you want long time REAL food assurance i say you build a smoker and start smoking pork ham pepperoni any meats smoke them they can then be air packaged and stored for a lonnng time

Mike Young said:

Building a food pantry for armageddon?

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That is kind of what I was going for yeah. That and to save money on groceries.

I was going through my dried food and I opened a bag of mixed soup beans and it was full of weird looking bugs, they had ate holes in the beans, freaked me out i tossed it and cleaned my cupboards out last night!! ewwwwy Makes me wonder how long that bag sat on the shelf, long enough for a few eggs to hatch, they grew and laid more eggs, i mean the bag was full!!

I love you! LOL... I own 3 smokers.... I don't compete, yet, but I plan to. I make a kick ass slow smoked pulled pork bbq... I also smoke my baked beans and stews for added flavor. I'd link my cooking blog, but that would expose my identity... Smoking foods has been around for some time. If you want to hang onto fish for awhile, salt it, and then smoke it.

Unnk said:

most food will not go bad if you can cook it as you can bring the temp up high enough to kill any bacteria youcan essential eat anything but alota foods like ramen will eventually start to degrade and the packages willl begin to leach after awhile if you want long time REAL food assurance i say you build a smoker and start smoking pork ham pepperoni any meats smoke them they can then be air packaged and stored for a lonnng time

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Serapis said:

I love you! LOL... I own 3 smokers.... I don't compete, yet, but I plan to. I make a kick ass slow smoked pulled pork bbq... I also smoke my baked beans and stews for added flavor. I'd link my cooking blog, but that would expose my identity... Smoking foods has been around for some time. If you want to hang onto fish for awhile, salt it, and then smoke it.

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hell yah mate you know whats up

Yeah, my father in law is doing the same thing. lol. Hey unnk, you cold smoke? I build me a hot smoker out of a 55 gallon drum. Thing is awesome.

april said:

I was going through my dried food and I opened a bag of mixed soup beans and it was full of weird looking bugs, they had ate holes in the beans, freaked me out i tossed it and cleaned my cupboards out last night!! ewwwwy Makes me wonder how long that bag sat on the shelf, long enough for a few eggs to hatch, they grew and laid more eggs, i mean the bag was full!!

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gee thanks for haunting my dreams




over and over again

hey man pm me i got a question about rdwc im thinking about setting up some dwc buckets im currently using sub cools super soil but i have some tinkering ideas but i dont wanna make a move yet just need a good guide if you can lnk it to me

Serapis said:

I love you! LOL... I own 3 smokers.... I don't compete, yet, but I plan to. I make a kick ass slow smoked pulled pork bbq... I also smoke my baked beans and stews for added flavor. I'd link my cooking blog, but that would expose my identity... Smoking foods has been around for some time. If you want to hang onto fish for awhile, salt it, and then smoke it.

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Awesome! My buddy & I entered out first comp last summer. Took 3rd place in chicken, 7th in pork butt. It's a blast. Just gotta try & stay sober enough to do a good job.

i have a shed 5x5 with a heat rack below

Mike Young said:

Just gotta try & stay sober enough to do a good job.

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That never happens tho mike, does it? lol

Richie LxP said:

That never happens tho mike, does it? lol

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Naw, naw it don't. Ya just gotta fake it the best ya can.

believe it or not Milk will last about a week past its expiration date. Cheese when it gets old mold will start to grown on it but, you can cut the mold away and eat the cheese but if it is slimy or has a milky water in it toss it out. Experations dates are not only a way for food companies to gurantee freshness they are also a way of them covering their ass when someone decided to sue them for a glass of chunky milk.

april said:

I was going through my dried food and I opened a bag of mixed soup beans and it was full of weird looking bugs, they had ate holes in the beans, freaked me out i tossed it and cleaned my cupboards out last night!! ewwwwy Makes me wonder how long that bag sat on the shelf, long enough for a few eggs to hatch, they grew and laid more eggs, i mean the bag was full!!

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that would give me nightmares. i feel sick right now thinking about it.

I used to be a dairy manager and with most store branded milks with clear plastic containers will not last a week past expiration. the reason is light degrades the quality of milk. So does heat. I can't tell you how many times milk is left sitting outside a walk in cooler, while someone rotates the old stock and prepares for the new. I've seen milk sitting on an unloading dock many times, or coming in on a truck with a broken reefer unit and milk at 50 degrees.

The only milk I would trust one week past the exp date is milk that has been kept at 35 - 40 degrees, and is in an opaque container that blocks light from reaching the milk.

Of course, you can always do the smell test... if it smells the slightest bit sour, it is.

akgrown said:

believe it or not Milk will last about a week past its expiration date. Cheese when it gets old mold will start to grown on it but, you can cut the mold away and eat the cheese but if it is slimy or has a milky water in it toss it out. Experations dates are not only a way for food companies to gurantee freshness they are also a way of them covering their ass when someone decided to sue them for a glass of chunky milk.

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