I've just cooked out of date dry pasta!

[Redpriestandmozart]

I thought it took longer to cook than expected but it did taste fine, then when putting the remainder back in the cupboard I noticed the best before/use-by date! SIX YEARS AGO!!!

So what would you do? Dump the rest of it or use it? I hate food waste but we're talking 75p here maximum, we're still alive and it did taste good.

I would use it.

Hee hee... It tasted fine and there's little that could go off in dried pasta. I'd keep it and enjoy!

I'd eat it.

I’d use it. You already know it still tastes good.

If tonight's didn't kill you, the rest of it won't. I'd use it.

It’s fine. It’s dried. It may taste a little stale but it’s hardly raw chicken, is it.

I didn't even know it went off. Eat it!

If you’re still alive tomorrow I’d eat it !

It doesn’t go off. Enjoy!

The best part is I have shuffled this pack around the cupboard but it doesn't seem like six years but it must have been! No tummy ache and as you say, not much to go off and it was sealed

eat it, its dry and doesnt go off
ive eaten an egg that had 1st feb on it,still here and not ill

I store my pasta in jars so have no way of knowing how old it is .

Mine doesn't get time to get out of date but I'm sure it's fine!

I ate a yoghurt that was two months out of date recently and lived to tell the tale. I would definitely eat something that was a dry product like this, especially if I knew it tasted okay!

I came on to laugh but I'll admit six years is a while!
It wasn't opened six years ago was it? Sealed until tonight? If so I'd keep it.

You cooked it in 💯 degrees boiling water.
Kills all food spoilage bugs.

I'm just impressed you had pasta that long without being eaten! Wouldn't happen in this house!

I'm just impressed you had pasta that long without being eaten!

The wrong shape :) it was Napolina White Linguine, we've eaten wholemeal pasta for years, always spaghetti or fusilli or I can see why it was overlooked

Best before and use by dates are completely different things. A use by means it could be unsafe to eat, a best before just means it might not taste quite as nice.

Dry pasta has a best before date?!!?!? Who knew

(no chance here... three young adult males in the house...wish I had shares in it!)

I found a jar of lemon curd best before 2015 in my cupboard today. Would you like it to go with your out of date pasta?

Call 999.

Obvs.

😂

I’m freaked out you’ve not noticed it was there for 6 years. In our house we check for out of date stuff every 6 months. Dry goods mostly say best before so we will use them up to 6 months after other wise the Er tossed. That rarely happens though to be honest.

I'd eat it.

you probably find it had a higher protein level all those lovely little cooked larder beetles et al