So I've found some out of date tins...which would you eat?

[Wanderlust21]

I guess something good has come of the recent state of affairs in that I've finally had a look through my tins' cupboard lol.

Found some stuff that is out of date, would you risk any/all of these:

Vegetable soup dated dec 2018
Fruit cocktail jam 2017
Peach slices Sept 2017
Beef ravioli feb 2019

Also Thai green curry sauce(aldi) bbe March 2018
And apple chutney July 2017.

And coconut milk, one month outta date too lol.

I think the soup should be fine right? but the curry has fish sauce so guessing it defo needs chucked lol.

As long as the tin is undamaged, I'd consider it safe to eat. I used a tin of coconut milk in a curry last week that had 2018 on it. It was fine.

None of it. I'm obsessive about dates. I wish I wasn't but I can't help it. I'm autistic and the date is the date 🙄

I wouldn’t be worried about any of those, would check they looked and smelled okay on opening and assuming they did I’d happily eat.

If the tins aren't damaged the open and sniff .They should be ok.
My grandad at some stage and for some reason bought LOTS if game soup,it was stacked in the pantry and was about 20 years old when we were eating it,no dents ,no problem.

I'd empty them out and take a good look at the inside of the can before deciding, especially for acidic foods. The coating on the inside does not last indefinitely.

All of them so long as the tins are not damaged or swollen

I'll definitely be doing the sniff test.

This is making me think of that episode of Friday Night Dinner where the dad eats his old tin of meat he's been keeping in the garage

Haha yes!
Friday night dinner season 6 is due soon too! ;)

People used to bottle / can their own produce. Just like we used to buy all meat from the butchers / veg from the greengrocers, etc.

I wonder how they managed not to poison themselves without a little date stamped on the bottom?

I wonder how they managed not to poison themselves without a little date stamped on the bottom?

By writing the date on the label and using oldest foods before newest.

Probably some people did poison themselves though.

The only one I wouldn't eat was the one I don't like. Tins are brilliant.

I'd eat all of them. They're not very out of date. The dates are to aid rotation. Just use your nose when opening. Canning is a very efficient, safe way of preserving food.

I’d eat them all - that is if they’re undamaged and smell fine when opened.
Tins are often OK for ages, if they’re not ‘blown’ or rusty. We cleared the flat of an old aunt of Dh after she died. Some of the tins in her cupboards were literally years out of date, but since they looked and smelled fine, we used them all.

All of them. They’ve been out of the sunlight and unless the cupboard is next to or above an uninsulated boiler they’ll be fine.

Bon appetite 😁

To be honest I think the “beef”’in tinned ravioli so is far removed from actual cow that it will be fine. Like nacho “cheese”.

Assuming they look and smell fine, and the tins aren't damaged, they will be fine.

Except the ravioli, which will always have been disgusting.

Had the veg soup this morning and it was fine :)
Tbf I think it was the least risky lol

Literally none of it is risky, as others have explained (having done appropriate checks, of course).

I like how you are building up to the ravioli OP.

I found out of date quinoa (unopened) and dog ends of bags of semolina/cous cous/bulgar at the back of the dry food cupboard. I’ve told DH (neat freak) not to chuck them in case we need them later on.

I haven’t done a full audit of my baking cupboard yet, but I suspect there will be similar dried fruit and nuts. If the nut oils haven’t gone rancid, we’ll eat them over the next few weeks.

You've basically admitted to not having cleaned your cupboard out for years.......... Tins already come with a shelf life of about 3-4 years, so some of those are there 7 years lol. You dirty mare.

I chucked some gravy browning earlier this year that was (mumble) years old. It moved with me from my shared student house when I moved in with DH. We are in our late 40s now. I made some last hurrah gravy with it first & we were all fine. 🤷‍♂️ (If I’m cooking for guests I always use in date stuff, just in case.)

I had an emergency tin of tomato soup in work. FIL was saying how tinned stuff doesn’t really go off so I brought it home to him a few months ago. He ate it and said it was lovely...dated 2003

My DH’s Grandad lived through the war so he won’t throw food away at all. He has lots of tins and packets that went off years ago but will still gladly eat it all, he says the dates are just health and safety madness . He’s in his late 80s tbf so it hasn’t harmed him!

If the tins aren't damaged or dented then they'll be fine.