Would you cook sealed bacon with use by 23rd Feb?

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Making a fry up for DP and just clicked this.

Smells/looks fine...

Definitely, yes.

Yes

Yup. Check it’s not sticky and whack it on pan.

Yep

Of course! If it looks ok and smells ok then it will be ok, particularly between two slices of bread, with a bit of HP sauce.

Yes, you’d know immediately if it was off, wouldn’t cross my mind not to cook it as long as it looks/smells fine

Yes, I cooked bacon a week past its date recently, I was fine.

It's cured meat, so it should be fine. As long as it smells OK I'd definitely use it.

As long as the packet isn't blown and it doesn't smell I'd cook it.

He's eaten it.

I'll let you know if he doesn't survive

If it passes the sniff test, yes. Often give a bit to my DH first just to check there are no nasty repercussions. 😉

Yes, subject to it passing a sniff test.

Yes if it looks and smells OK you'll be fine

We once ate bacon two weeks out of date by mistake and we were fine.

It's 'use-by', not 'best before' - the date is there as a warning that the meat is starting to spoil and harmful bacteria is breeding in it (you can't see or smell the bacteria). I'd find it unappetising but appreciate others are different.

Look at it this way: we are the descendants of hundreds of generations of people who got this far by sniffing their food and thinking 'yeah, it's okay'.

My genes have been quite good thus far (admittedly I might be the fuck up, but hey, what's life without a little danger?).

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Look at it this way: we are the descendants of hundreds of generations of people who got this far by sniffing their food and thinking 'yeah, it's okay'.

My genes have been quite good thus far (admittedly I might be the fuck up, but hey, what's life without a little danger?).

The difference now is that a lot of our food isn't fresh when when we buy it. If it's from a supermarket, it's been through the factory, frozen, shipped, defrosted, sat about in a shop and it doesn't get to your fridge until it's on the verge of spoiling.