To cook and eat bacon lardons that are a month out of date?

[wohmum]

I say yes, dh says no way - would you?

I actually feel sick. Hope no one who ate the was a child or has a poor immune system. Fucking rank.

You may feel fine initially but there Is another potential problem with pork products to food poisoning

Worms!

Also echoing a pp wondering wtf state is your fridge in?!

Grim

They smelt fine though (so we ate them!)

More fool you.

I thought bacon was cured and would have a lot more leeway

Not unless it's dry cured and packed in salt. Bacon is injected with so much crap and water it is very susceptible to bacterial overgrowth, even refrigerated, even if it doesn't smell. This is why it has a use by date of a week or so.

I would be praying to the food poisoning Gods right about now if I were you...

Surely the temperature you cook bacon lardons at would kill pretty much everything?

Just because something smells fine does not mean it is safe to eat!!! Cooking doesn't always kill all of the bad bacteria either.

Definitely not just following to see what happens to you

I'm pretty lax on sell-by dates too and have only once been unwell (ironically, from yoghurt that was only 1 day out). Have to say, a month on meat is too far for me though!

Hope we're all wrong, OP!

Cooking at a high temperature would kill most bacteria, but it doesn't affect any toxins as they are heat stable. So EColi 0157, Staph. Aureus etc. can still make you very ill.
Bacon is cured, yes, but with quite a weak brine. As someone else mentioned, the sort that has been buried in salt until it's rock hard and needs soaking before you cook it, is perfectly safe!!

I would and have, as long as they didn't look completely discoloured. And I always cook anything extra well when it's out of date.

Maybe she's not come back because they all died of food poisoning!!!

As someone who is terrified of sickness I don't know why you'd risk it. I'd spend the rest of the day feeling terrified I'd be ill. Have some beans on toast.

Surely the temperature you cook bacon lardons at would kill pretty much everything?

Every living thing excretes waste poos. Bacteria poos. The bacteria on those lardons had an extra month of multiplying and pooing all over them before they were killed by the heat. Toxins Poo is not killed by heat. It isn't alive. It is nonetheless a bad thing to willingly eat.

I think attitudes probably depend on whether or not you've had a bad experience with food poisoning in the past but also what kind of house you grew up in. IME people who grew up with parents who were lax about expiry dates (like me, most of my family members, DP) are likely to be that way themselves. People who grew up with parents who were strict about expiry dates are probably like that themselves (can think of three or four friends like this off the top of my head and I know their parents were the same). Strawb I'm guessing maybe you are the latter?

Wow OP, I'm oddly in admiration of you . Worms though, surely not?

Hope you're all well still!

I'm very lax about best before dates (once ate a yogurt that was over a month out of date), but even I'd think twice about that.

Despite my cavalier attitudes, I never got an upset stomach until I was in my early 40s, and that was proper campylobacter from a pub meal. It put me right of boeuf bourguignon, unless I've made it myself. Twenty years on, I've only ever had another 2 (one was noro and the other was possibly caused by an excess of beer).

Some things really aren't very nice when they're old though. Old eggs seem to really lose their flavour.

You still alive op?

sweetbitter absolutely. My Mum went to hospital for a routine op and was horribly food poisoned with some manky fish. It was horrendous.

I don't worry about bread (if it's not mouldy) or milk (if it smells ok) or almost anything in vinegar or veg that isn't rotten. Canned goods last pretty much for years and dry condiments such as sugar and salt are fine.

I'd NEVER risk opened mayonnaise for too long or packet meat or keeping cooked food for more than a day or two in the fridge.

Yep, still alive and had no side effects at all. I don't think sell by dates existed when I was growing up in the North :)

Still, I wouldn't suggest anyone else follows suit!

The best food is that which is just on the borderline of being rotten. Think smelly cheese, well hung meat, sauerkraut, surströmming

They have a very long shelf life and if they hadn't been opened and exposed to air would have been fine.

"The best food is that which is just on the borderline of being rotten"

In your opinion. Not mine

I am blasé as fuck about that kind of shit. I wouldn't have eaten it though.
I kind of respect you a bit op.
Keep us posted.

I'm blasé too and have probably eaten bacon as old. Glad you're still alive op

Yuk.

Glad you are OK but the explanations about weak brine, toxins not killed by heat etc make this a pretty risky enterprise.

And revolting.