Would you eat salmon tomorrow with the use by date of yesterday?

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The airtight sealed, ready to eat chilli fillet type ones?

Forgot about them!

This.

So, in theory, it’s good at 11:59pm and off at 12:00am? All these things have an additional margin.

100% yes! If your fridge is kept between 5 and 0 degrees and operating properly this wouldn’t be a problem at all. I’m quite surprised at the amount of people saying ‘No’ outright. What a waste.

It sounds like it’s the hot smoked fish rather than raw so I would. Those dates are a load of rubbish anyway

So, in theory, it’s good at 11:59pm and off at 12:00am? All these things have an additional margin.

The whole 24 hours of Sunday probably swallow that margin.

IMO your nose will be able to tell you PDQ whether it’s remotely ‘off’.

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I'm not at all wasteful, equally I never eat out of date food. This is a 'would you' question, so no I would not eat it. Digging slightly deeper, rather than assuming I'm wasteful, i just don't have out of date food.

I would not eat salmon with a use by of yesterday today, let alone tomorrow.

Do let us know what you decide @TheDoorsOpen

I think I'll wash the chilli off, recook it and give it to the dog.

Qualified chef...salmon and chicken...no.

If it has been kept in the fridge then definitely yes I would - I would eat it to a couple of days past the use by date. If it smelt bad on opening it then I wouldn't but they always err on the side of caution with these dates.

No. I watched Airplane as a child and I've been careful with fish ever since.

If it looks ok, feels ok and smells ok then yes I would. I think our fridge is where the iceberg that sunk the Titanic started out though.

Important to be wary of sunk costs fallacy though, if it smells / looks ok raw but then seems dodgy during the cooking process is write it off, bin it, start again.

Edit as I read again and see it’s airtight and pre-cooked (like smoked mackerel?) those products typically have a shelf-life of weeks, so I’d think nothing at all of another 48 hours.

Yes if it doesn’t smell bad. The air tight ones often ok.

yes

I would. I'd probably cook it though (just because I prefer it hot.) It doesn't magically go off. And also lots of that fish is quite old anyway - I saw a programme about it...the expert said it's fine to eat fish that's a bit out of date, but he'd always buy frozen as that is much fresher.

Depends where it’s from. I think that places like M&S and Waitrose have a far more conservative shelf life than other shops. So if it’s from one of those, I’d eat it if was smelling okay.

No. I always use things one day after the use by, even chicken and fish, but I wouldn’t do it two days after.

Nope!

As yours is pre-cooked, I would eat it (having sniffed/tasted it first).

But (slightly off-topic) salmon is one of the only fresh meats I wouldn't eat on or after it's eat-by date, and I would do all I could to eat it on day of purchase. In the past, I've cooked salmon close to or on it's use-by and it's had a slightly off flavour (smells like plastic/rubber?) - it's never made me ill, but it's such an expensive food you want to eat it in prime condition.

If you eat it (looks and smells OK) I would make sure you heat it up to a high temperature rather than eating it cold.

Omg! That poor pup: dogs hate chilli and it will be right through it having marinated in it all this time. He’s going to have chilli butthole coincide with diarrhea. 😬🌶💩

That's two days out of date, definitely not!

That's interesting, how do you find out about this?