Im cooking on the griddle pan some sausages that have been in the fridge for a week no more than 2 weeks (no packet date advice)
If I really cook them- will they be OK?

If they smell ok after cooking – they'll be fine

I wouldn't, but knock yourself out

on the basis that food didnt have best before/eat by when I was a kid- Im eating them as I type!

If there's a slightly sour taste from them, that means they're on the turn.

I tend to judge things on colour and smell so I'd eat em, but then I made a meal using all the gone off stuff in the fridge and gave myself gastroenteritis…not clever!

on the basis that food didnt have best before/eat by when I was a kid

you should be ashamed of yourself then – I thought it was only the young – allergy susceptible, always got a virus – generation that bothered with reading sell by dates

Sausages eaten, tasted OK, I overcooked them to be on the safe side.
I'll let you know if I get the sh**ts! 😯

Probably not as pork has the highest amount of dodgy stuff in it.

I overcooked them to be on the safe side.

As I understand it, it's not necessarily the live bacteria which might make you ill, but the toxins that they produced whilst breaking down the food. No amount of cooking will remove that.

Personally I can't see why someone who isn't starving or penniless, wouldn't bin suspect sausages.

It's been an hour, is he dead yet?

Still here!
No unpleasantness at either end (yet)

On average it's 10 to 12 hours mate. Then the vomiting and diarrhoea will start. And the sweating … saturation sweating. And the goose pimples. Food poisoning isn't much fun. And all for the cost of a couple of sausages,
eh ?

Entering this thread just to see the outcome… 🙂

Im going to start charging for updates!
You'll be gagging for them tomorow when Im in intensive care…
all proffits to local good causes of course 😉

You'll be gagging

But possibly not as much as you.

It's gone a bit quiet- I bet he's in the bog

Each year Britain throws away enough IN DATE food to fill Wembley stadium five times.

Hence why the 'use by date' will soon be replaced by 'best before'.

my wife is crazy for use by dates. if something reaches it it goes in the bin.

"But it's perfectly acceptable for consumption my sweet", I implore her.
But obviously my word counts for nothing.

As far as i'm concerned, if it smells fine *raw*, and hasn't gone green then it's eatable.

Still here! Clair Grogan in Gregorys Girl, that will keep me going! 😀

Thing is when you buy meat from the butchers, it doesnt come with a use by date on, should it? Obviously your going to use it sooner rather than later…but you never know!

imo red meat is much easier to tell if it's gone off than sausages. Apart from the obvious discolouration, it has a sickly sweet smell. Also fish that's gone off is fairly easy to tell, as the smell of ammonia which it gives off is detectable to the human nose in even quite small quantities. Sausages I reckon are a bit harder. Of course your sausages might have still had a week or two before their use by date, but it baffles me why you would want to take the risk.

ernie Im just a gameler, red or black. Spades or Clubs?

I don't know any Gamelers. What's your dad's name ?

Tommy whats yours

Did you eat the whole packet? Fair do's if you did, thats alot of sausages. I'd likely have done the same. 😀

Tommy whats yours

Tommy Gameler ? ……erm nope, doesn't ring any bells for me.

My name ? Ernesto. But I'm ok with Ernie 8)

So did you make it through the night?

Hence why the 'use by date' will soon be replaced by 'best before'.

Best before has to be on all food stuffs* as an advisory label. Use by is for perishable goods.

No idea why butchers don't need to do it though…

*Apart from honey IIRC as it never goes off.

It's gone a bit quiet 😕

No internet access in the bog ? 💡

Wi-fi?

hope he put the bog roll in the fridge…

Im fine!
No problems at all 😀

Yeah, that's easy to post now you can actually bear to be far enough away from the bog to reach a computer for the first time in 12 hours. We know the truth!

its good for your immune system.
if they taste ok, get em down you.

all other opinons: MTFU!!!