To serve dc smoked salmon slices that are 2 days past use by date

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It's been unopened in the fridge but the use by date is 13.11. They are looking forward to it. I am a vegetarian so nit confident thst I'd be able to tell if it's off. It looks the way it always does. Dc are 3 and 6.

Would it help to cook it?

The sell by date is different to the use by date though isn't it? I think the sell by date is just relevant for shops as they shouldn't sell it beyond that.

Eww no it could make them ill. You'll be able to tell by the whiff and the (literal) ick in the flesh

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As a food microbiologist, I would not serve this to children. Salmon can contain Listeria which can multiply exponentially which is why the use by date is present as this indicates when the level of listeria is no longer safe.

That makes it higher risk. Raw meat past its used by date will probably taste rotten but less likely to make you ill if you cook it fully, whereas something that has been cooked and left might not have a noticeable taste or smell but could be full of the types of bacteria that can make you very ill.

It’s fine. It’s been cooked already by being smoked.

Absolutely I'd eat it and feed it to my kids.

Cannot understand people who are so fastidious about dates and absolutely insist on not eating anything out of date. As if at 11.31pm it's fine and safe, but half an hour later it will give you food poisoning! Common sense is required.

She's vegetarian

It's raw fish technically so not a good idea

Probably fine if it smells fine but I definitely wouldn't risk it.

I had horrendous food poisoning once, lasted six weeks and I lost a stone and a half. Cautious about meat and fish etc ever since!

Smoked isn’t raw. It’s cooked.

Well we have a pretty lox approach to smoked salmon

… that’s how it is round schmear anyway.

I would. Smoked salmon lasts for ages. I can't see that 2 days longer is going to make a big difference. With fresh salmon or chicken, however, I prefer to cook it same day or the next day after I buy it.

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It’s smoked. It’s fine. With smoked fish you can tell by the smell and colour if it’s gone off.

As a food microbiologist said upthread they wouldn't.
Before all this health and safety stuff lots of people became v ill or worse.
I'm glad of the use by dates on high risk food.
Some of you have cast iron stomachs though.😵‍💫

I'd cook it on high heat and add to scrambled eggs or a risotto as a supper dish

I’d use it if it didn’t smell off. I would crispy fry it though

Love that your 3 and 5 year olds are looking forward to smoked salmon. My 8 year old would think I hated him if I tried to serve him that, in date or other wise 😂

Nope it's raw. Although obviously safer due to smoking and salting.

It will be absolutely fine.

Yawn 🥱 how on earth has humankind survived for thousands of years eating all kinds of things without nanny state BB and Use By dates, and without the blessed wisdom of ‘food microbiologists’? 🙄

what happened to the good old look at it and take a sniff approach. if nothing funky is there, it will be fine esp as it's smoked. How did people live when there were no dates stamped of food!

Chuck it to be safe

We just did last week (well, I think it was smoked trout actually) - it's smoked that's the whole point of smoking, to preserve it, plus it's vac-sealed and in the fridge.

I apply the sniff/feel test to most things and we've been OK so far (and I'm better than my parents/ex-inlaws who'd happily leave leftovers covered, out on the side in the kitchen at Christmas and eat it for 3/4 days after - also with no ill effects in however many years they've been doing it.