to think about opening this jar

[cavefelem]

Just found a jar of cook-in curry sauce with a bb date of April 2009.

seal is still intact.

As it is a curry sauce I'm not sure I will be able to tell if its gone off.

Should I just bung it in the slow cooker & not tell DH?

I'm still here

I told DH about the BBE date & he was up for trying it.

But I really didn't want to be responsible for encouraging others to eat stuff well out of date so I binned it.

I will have to wait for my chicken curry

I'm glad you didn't eat poison curry cave .

I once worked in a baker, I was very young and inexperienced. I was working the lunch shift alone (already a nightmare), when a person came in asking for a pizza. They were easy to make, ready made just need to pop in the oven. Except I couldn't find one in the fridge. There was one in the 'display' though, so just cooked that one. When the next person came on shift, I was told that pizza was goodness knows how old, hence a 'display' .

Never saw that customer again. Convinced they are still sat on the toilet due to my toxic pizza. Glad you didn't go the same way, OP!

I'd have been tempted to make a very tiny curry and report back! And I'm a microbiologist honestly, I think the sauce was preserved in a sterile environment and would have been fine.

I'd have eaten it. I'm a doctor. Meh.

YABU unless it's the apocalypse, then and only then will you have a legitimate reason to open a sauce that is 7 years out of date, because by that point, a slightly funky ruby would probably be the least of your concerns.

" I'd have eaten it. I'm a doctor. "

bit of a non- sequiter there maybe....

Kind of meant that maybe that means I should know better...? But actually, in common with the microbiologist above, I think its very unlikely to cause harm. So I'd eat it.

My husband eats anything. Out of date stuff, food that's been sitting out, wrinkly veg. He said he wouldn't touch 7 year old curry sauce

We found a little bottle of 20 year old Tabasco lurking in a cupboard - it must have survived several house moves & had faded from red to a nasty sludgy green.

Undeterred, DH added a little to tomato juice - it nearly blew his head off

" I'd have eaten it. I'm a doctor. "
bit of a non- sequiter there maybe....

Some of the most cavalier people I know for eating out of date food have been doctors, medical students or doctors' offspring.

Has the apocalypse come and you're living in a dystopian nightmare world, where humans have formed feral gangs, desperately fighting over the last few surviving resources from before the atomic war?

If not, then no, you don't need to eat 7 year old jars of curry sauce.

I did eat a jar of Chicken Tonight sauce that was 18 months out of date once. I'm still here (and was perfectly fine)!

Had you said a couple of months past it's BB date I'd say go for it, but 7 years is I think not worth the risk!

surely you can;t have stuff in yhour cupboard 7 years out of date, do you think you misread the date?

Noah is it that unimaginable that someone could have a jar 7 years out of date? The only reason I know I don't is because I moved 2 years ago so checked dates then, but things get chucked to the back and forgotten about.

I moved into this house in July 2009 and I really don't think I would have brought a jar already out of date with me. BBE date definitely says April 2009, and its difficult to imagine what else it could be.

I haven't bought any cook-in sauces for at least 3 years, so its at least that old. What's the normal shelf life for this sort of thing?

I do have half-full tins of treacle & golden syrup that are probably antique by now, I don't remember buying them & I can't even remember what for.

wanders off to find some recipes

Haha @OP you got Daily Failed!

That'll learn you, with your crazy curry sauce storage habits!

I think peoples comments about food poisoning are a little silly (it's a sealed jar), but wouldn't necessarily expect it to taste as good.

Oh no, is this in The Fail? Link?

It is indeed.

Aren't these jars under £2?

With curry sauce it's a BBE rather than a use by isn't it?

For your viewing pleasure Edmund!

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3894764/Mother-receives-harsh-responses-asking-serve-family-food-s-SEVEN-YEARS-date.html