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  • Discoloured (in date) Bacon: safe to cook and eat?
  • Talkemada
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    Got a packet of unopened bacon, it's 'use by' 17th April, but it's got slightly 'grey' around the edges. Most of it is still pink.

    Is it safe to eat? It will be cooked thoroughly anyway. Is it just oxidisation? I've seen bacon on sale in supermarkets, that's looked worse. It's not 'slimy' or anything.

    Eat or throw away? Hurry up 'cos I'm hungry and need to cook something soon.

    I reckon eat, no? I don't like to throw food away unnecessarily.

    zaskar
    Free Member

    Why frigging risk your health??!!

    Take it back.

    Just because the date is fine…I've never seen discoloured bacon.

    Give the shop a call I'm sure they will sort you out if you have the receipt at least.

    sweepy
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    follow your nose, if it smells bad it is

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    dmiller
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    Eat it. 🙂

    zaskar
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    If you like to spend time on the loo reading the paper.

    Or throw up at work…

    TheFunkyMonkey
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    I've had plenty of bacon look like that, give it the smell test first though.
    It'll be reet

    Talkemada
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    It don't smell 'bad', it just smells like raw meat.

    i'm not one of these paranoid types that throws stuff away 1 second after it's sell by date. I scrape mould off cheese. I'm just surprised it's gone a bit grey.

    I've eaten beef that's gone brown loads of times without any problem. Same sort of thing, or is pork different?

    Any sensible advice?

    ton
    Full Member

    pork is grey, not pink. pink is artificial colouring.

    dobo
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    who the hell reads the in date label the morning after a serious night out, be fine, some mouldy bred dont hurt if you toast it too! check your eggs float or is it sink hmm

    basehead
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    If its off the smell will make it pretty clear..

    Its more than likely its just the meat ageing.

    jimbobrighton
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    nothing wrong with it – in all honesty will probably taste better for hanging around for a few days.

    matthewjb
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    As others have said just go by smell.

    It's not like you are eating it raw is it?

    brakes
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    it'll be fine
    that pig died for you
    don't let it go to waste

    Talkemada
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    Well it's not mould, as it's affected the tissue of the meat, not just the surface, and as I've said, I've seen much worse on sale.

    Ton; artificial colouring you say? 😯

    Munqe-chick
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    So have you eaten it then?

    cinnamon_girl
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    Is it organic?

    If yes, British?

    If yes, it will be OK.

    Is it from Holland/Denmark?

    If it is, bin it!

    HTH

    Auntie CG

    amodicumofgnar
    Full Member

    Metalic shine isnt a good thing. Seen butchers bacon discoloured but never pre-packed. If indoubt take it back or better give it to a freegan – they're the iron gut bin scroungers arent they? Atleast it wont go to waste. Even better singletrack bacon challenge – anyone close enough to eat it? Who is forum glutton / cast iron gutlord, any takers or nominations?

    brakes
    Free Member

    bring it round here and I'll eat it, I've got some eggs

    Talkemada
    Free Member

    Bollocks to it, it's getting cooked!

    Is it organic?

    If yes, British?

    If yes, it will be OK.

    Is it from Holland/Denmark?

    If it is, bin it!

    You do know this is completely and utterly irrelevant, don't you? As EU food standards are very high, and the 'organic' tosh is purely marketing bullshit.

    If I'm ill, you lot will be the first to know about it, trust me. 😈

    Munqe-chick
    Free Member

    Crumbs 24 minutes it's taken you to decide to COOK it then eat it you can't have been that hungry 😉

    Houns
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    It's just a little grey it's still good, it's still good

    Talkemada
    Free Member

    It's nearly done! Cooked it up with some garlic, mushrooms and tinned tomatoes, served with pasta. Mmm…

    Googling reveals (apart form some hysterical paranoid Americans) that it's to do with lactic acid reacting or something. And considering bacon is very high in salt anyway, I'd imagine an unopened pack that's well in date to be probably ok.

    He says, trying to convince himself… 🙄

    Talkemada
    Free Member

    Mm, tastes ok…

    zaskar
    Free Member

    Well you learn something new each day.

    I guess if it looked different to what it was when you bought it I'd bin it.

    cinnamon_girl
    Full Member

    I'll take the register in the morning 😉

    Talkemada
    Free Member

    It's ok, I'm having beer with it, which will cancel out any badness.

    zaskar
    Free Member

    Is the Beer Green?

    amodicumofgnar
    Full Member

    Is it cloudy?

    cinnamon_girl
    Full Member

    You haven't replied to my e-mail. 😉

    BillMC
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    I buy all the 'old'stuff in Waitrose and I haven't died yet, can't get my head round 'scraping mould off cheese'…..cheese is mould!

    allyharp
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    Ask yourself – would a restaurant cook and serve it?

    Of course they would. Get on with it!

    binners
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    Right. Lets get down to the important issues:

    Was it on stodgy crap white bread?
    Was it smothered in tomato ketchup?
    Did you let rip a window-rattling belch when you'd finished it?

    Answer no to any of the above and you're clearly a mincer 😀

    T666DOM
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    sell by dates are a swizz, ignore them and use you nose, if it smells off in the bin, if not crack on. Probably just oxidised a bit, think of it as matured bacon,like a good steak!!

    walla24
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    jebus your are worrying about discoloured bacon…chuckle…you should check out what i rummage up from my student fridge.
    cook it till its black=no problem

    zbonty
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    matthewjb's post reminded me i was working on a building site before xmas when i saw a Russian labourer eating an onion like an apple, THEN open a pack of bacon with his stanley knife and proceed to eat raw bacon and onion.

    Brilliiant!

    Talkemada
    Free Member

    Answer no to any of the above and you're clearly a mincer

    No, Binners. You, Sir, are naught but a vulgar oaf.

    Students! Oh Lord, the stuff I used to see in mates' fridges! 😯

    One lad cooked some proper rank, and I mean really nasty looking mince in Vodka, as he said it would 'sterilise the meat'. Strangely, he suffered no ill effects. Mind you, this was a lad who, after ingesting an a mount of Ketamine that had others on the floor, went shopping in Sainsburys and actually came back with a sensible week's worth. 😯

    Talkemada
    Free Member

    Well that was very nice, I have to say. Simple, yet delicious. That Ms Dahl will be beating a path to my door, for sure.

    binners
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    No, Binners. You, Sir, are naught but a vulgar oaf.

    I think the word you're searching for is 'northern' 😀

    I wasn't going to pass comment initially, but…. you looked at a sell by date? Girlchild!

    nickc
    Full Member

    and I mean really nasty looking mince in Vodka,

    Northerner

    Lifer
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    On the subject of 'safe to eat' how long do people leave food in a pot for without covering or chilling?

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