To expect capers to last longer than a week

[BooseysMom]

I bought a jar of capers in brine with the bb date of 2022. Used them once then put in the fridge and just a week later they had def off. They smelled absolutely putrid! The recipe i had used a teaspoon of them and the rest had to be binned. I won't bother buying again..Surely they should last longer than that?

I’ve had a jar in the fridge for months. How odd.

No one ever uses more than 1 tsp of a jar of capers.

Next time make sure the brine covers the top of the capers, and they'll be as fresh as a daisy when you chuck 'em out in 2022.

The 2022 date tends to be if they aren’t opened.

I keep capers opened for weeks. Did anything get into the jar - on a spoon maybe?

Thanks for your replies everyone. Maybe they weren't properly sealed when i bought them but then they would be off when i opened them. The brine def was covering them. May be something did get in with them. Like a fly..there's enough of those buzzing around atm.

What annoys me is that why are they always sold in jars of hundreds of the things when you only need one bloody teaspoon?!!