"Vintage" Marmite *lighthearted*

[mustardrarebit]

So, I couldn't sleep in the heat and got up to make myself some toast and marmite. While I was waiting for the toast to pop I found myself reading the back of the marmite jar. Best before March 2012. It's a large jar. I've been eating it a few times a month for... (based on the brand saying they put 18 months on their 'best befores') 14 years! It tastes absolutely fine. There is around 1cm left in the bottom of the jar, no mould. Frankly I'm impressed at it's longevity.

Now to decide, do I buy a new jar that might be less concentrated, or see it through to the end? 🤔

I read an article in a newspaper about Marmite a few months ago. The manufacturers said that they put an 18 month best before date on,but in reality,it keeps for far longer. A jar of Marmite manufactured in 1945 would apparently still be safe to eat! So I would imagine that your jar with it's 2012 best before date is absolutely fine!

I am slightly more relaxed about best before as it's more of a recommendation but I definitely wouldn't eat something 12 years out of date!!

I do stick to all the condiments - use within 3 weeks/ 6 months etc.

I hate eating at my in laws house as they will have fridge condiments that are years out of date and I never know if they are in the food!! Makes me feel ill.

I was hugely disappointed some years ago when my aged marmite came to an end (like yours, over 10 years out of code). The fresh jar that replaced it wasn't a patch on it.
Treasure it while it lasts.

I'm impressed at it's longevity. Unnecessary for me though because I eat so much Marmite that it's always gone within 4 months.

We buy a jar every week. We are Marmite fiends in our house.

It's marmite, the food of gods, it will be fine

That's my worry. What if the vintage marmite has spoiled me for the fresh jar? 😕

Fortunately (unfortunately?) I'm the only marmite eater in our house. Husband moved to the UK in the early 90's to attend a boarding 6th Form. At breakfast they had a large jar of marmite. Being Italian he assumed it was akin to Nutella and spread it thickly on his toast 😆 He refused to eat it again, until I used it in cooking without telling him. He still won't eat it on toast.

I've just read this! Reassured and enjoying a celebratory round of marmite on toast. 😋

I go through phases where I eat it constantly and then forget about it for a while. Always use it in cooking though.

It seems like Marmite is the ultimate preserve! So much salt that if you don't put buttery knives in the jar it should last for decades. I wonder if survivalists know about it 🤔

I'm sure it has improved with age.

Just think if it is that indestructable bits of it will probably stay in your gut for the rest of your life.

Try this one OP

https://www.marmite.co.uk/p/marmite-xo-yeast-extract-extra-old-250g.html/00000059082279

It's been out a few years but you won't have had to buy it!

Just checked my current jar. Definitely maturing 🤣.

Let's hope it preserves my gut too then! 😆

That is epic! I'll be scouring the shelves for that. Must have missed it, since I haven't bought any for 14 years!

Pop it in the back of your cupboard for when you need that extra mature flavour!

It's too salty for mould to survive. Ditto honey is sweet. Honey has been found in ancient Egyptian tombs that was absolutely fine.

@mustardrarebit At breakfast they had a large jar of marmite. Being Italian he assumed it was akin to Nutella and spread it thickly on his toast 😆 He refused to eat it again, until I used it in cooking without telling him.

There is a very funny bit of video on YouTube, where an American lad and a British lad are experiencing the ‘delicacies’ of each others respective homelands, Marmite being one of the products sampled. The American young man, thinking it was like Nutella or similar, put a heaped desert spoon of Marmite into his mouth, and the young Brit did not stop him….

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I'll have to look that up. I wish I'd seen my husband's face when he realised what he'd eaten.

I'm interested to know how you're using Marmite in cooking, OP? It's got a lovely umami flavour but I wouldn't know what to try it in as an ingredient.

Got to put a pic up, just for the record!

I use it in tomato based pasta sauces, stews, stir fries, gravy, pulled pork, brush onto roasties too!