Too cook salmon 1 day out of date?

[wasthataburp]

Will this be ok to eat tonight? Use by date is 19th?!

Does it smell fine? Then of course

Oh, just use it! Enjoy

You can't smell everything that could make you ill. Why take the risk?

I personally wouldn't. Meat, fish, dairy out of date is a no no for me. But my nan ate everything out of date and lived till 89 so...each to their own.

I would if it has been kept properly cold in a fridge. The smell would let you know if it had gone off.

If it looks fine and smells fine it is fine. I routinely buy reduced sushi in the evenings and eat it for lunch the next day. Haven't had food poisoning in about 10 years (and that was on holiday).

Grandfather used to pour milk that had gone lumpy onto his cornflakes and insist it was fine - and he lived into his 80s!

I'd check the following:
If you press a salmon fillet with your finger it shouldn't indent too much/should come back up. It shouldn't have any sliminess. Also, it should smell of 'the sea' rather than strongly fishy IYSWIM.

I am totally paranoid due to both spending my childhood basically (I now realise) being emetophobic and my mum be admitted to hospital due to bad food poisoning when I was a child. So I'd probably chuck it. However I know rationally that if the fish is firm, slime free and doesn't smell then it is super unlikely to be a problem. They date food conservatively I think.

Cooked it and ate it!

"Why take the risk?"

Because it is, in all likelihood, totally fine.
Because things don't go off at the stroke of midnight on the Use By date.
Because most suppliers allow a little "grace period" so cover their own arses.
Because food costs money.
Because food waste is a huge issue.

Just a few reasons.

Oh I'm having this exact same quandary with an Asda roast in the bag chicken that went out of date yesterday. Incidentally, the date on which it was delivered to me 😡😡

Smells and looks normal so I've chucked it in the oven anyway. Will see what it's like when it's cooked.

So freeze it before the use by date?
Don't buy so much food that it goes off before you eat it?
It may well be fine. But food stored incorrectly (in transit etc) and then eaten last a sell by date may well put you in hospital.
If you choose to take the chance then fine. I wouldn't. And nobody should be giving potentially dangerous advice out as if it's definitely going to be ok.

No one said it will definitely be OK. Just that, in their opinion, on the balance of probabilities, it will probably be totally fine. 99.99% of the time.

Nothing is risk free. You can never say that. Name any activity in the world, from eating salmon one day past it's date, to eating something the second you get it home from the supermarket, to getting out of bed, someone, somewhere will have come to harm from doing it.

"Why take the risk?"

What risk? Do you think the salmon was sitting in the fridge with his little waterproof watch, waiting for midnight, whereupon he suddenly magically covered himself in salmonella and ecoli?

Smell it.

If it looks and smells ok I would use it!!

Does it smell okay? If so, eat it. 😆

But food stored incorrectly (in transit etc) and then eaten last a sell by date may well put you in hospital

Food stored incorrectly and eaten BEFORE a last sell by date (and you mean use by date) may well put you in hospital. It isn't the date that matters in that case.

In my experience I've noticed that fish goes off quicker than poultry/meat. If it doesn't smell when you open it, then it may taste a bit "off" after cooking. If it was me I'd notice the taste and couldn't eat it.

Quite recently I ate a yogurt that was ten days past it's sell by date, I didn't notice until after I'd eaten it.The yoghurt tasted OK, however I spent most of the night on the toilet

Eat it/don't eat it, It's really all about what your stomache can tolerate.

I really don't understand the "if it smells ok". If it smells rank then of course you wouldn't eat it. But NOT everything that could land you in hospital can be detected by smelling a piece of meat or fish.
Best before are advisory. If bread isn't green I generally assume it's ok.
Use by. It's for your safety.

I know I will get moaned at.

To cook.

Too means 'as well'.

Quite recently I ate a yogurt that was ten days past it's sell by date, I didn't notice until after I'd eaten it.The yoghurt tasted OK, however I spent most of the night on the toilet

I regularly eat yogurt, cream and cheese a week or two after the date and it has never made me ill or looked/tasted off. The record for Feta is eight months. I found a pack lurking at the back of the fridge and it looked OK, so I sniffed it and ate it and it tasted like Feta and I wasn't ill either.

Cheese like brie isn't even ripe on the date so needs to sit in a less cold place than a fridge for a day or two to be even edible according to the French, who would generally be horrified as how the Brits store and eat cheese.

Raw fish does gets worms if it’s left too long, but that won’t happen a day after the use by date!

Raw fish does gets worms if it’s left too long, but that won’t happen a day after the use by date!

Fish can't acquire worms when vacuum packed in a fridge, no matter how long you leave it.