9 day out of date cream

[Peony6]

Please could you help solve a dispute at home...would you use cream in cooking if it smelt fine but was 9 days out of date? Thanks

Probably not in cooking. I'd want to taste as well as smell it, but I'd still worry it would split as soon as it got any heat added to it and wreck the dish I was cooking.

Yes, if it smelled fine. Cream smells very nasty when it's off, it's unmistakable. If kept sealed it can keep for much longer than the use by date, but once opened it will go off very quickly.

Yes I’ve used cream that’s a month out of date. It’s smelt and tasted fine.
I’ve also not used cream that’s within date because it’s gone off.

cream, like orange juice and bread are easy to tell

Yes, if it smelt fine.

Yeh I agree you can easily tell if cream is off - it smells awful.

I also find that if unopened it lasts a good while but once opened, use at once. I occasionally buy too much cream at Christmas and it's usually still fine at New Year, even if sell by is 27 Dec.

Would use without hesitation after a good sniff.

I'd taste it first, but if it tasted ok then yes

I’ve used cream that’s two weeks past its date. If you’ve only just opened it and if it smells fine then you’ll be alright.

I've just eaten (with a friend!) half a tub of cream that was in the fridge with a date of 1 June. It had been open for a couple of weeks and was absolutely fine. As was the sticky toffee pudding we put it on....

Yes, if it smelt ok, and especially if it had not been already opened.

9 days out of date if it smelt OK, then yeah.... It's not too much out of date.

Only if it had not been opened though. 14-15 days out of date or more? No to that.

Yes I do. Today actually. Made cauliflower cheese but I don't like milk so I chuck a bit of cream in the sauce made with roux and the cauliflower water.
I have a little try first but it always tastes just like cream.

I'd be making that into some lovely butter 🧈

Not cream no. DP will throw all kinds away it it's past the best before or use by, I'm a bit more flexible with it and as long as it looks and smells ok I'm good.

But one time I ate a cream cake that had been in the fridge a few days and my stomach did not appreciate it.

Thanks all.

If it has started to go a little sour/has a tang in the aroma, it can still be good to out into a steak pan with the juices, some pepper, mushrooms, onions. Allow to bubble well and pour over the rested steak.

I'd taste it but yes if it was OK

Indeed, smell then taste test.

Use as creme, or if it has turned as sour creme maybe in pancake batter.

Yes of course, why not?

Experience has told me it is probably still perfectly fine. But I will look at it and see if it looks OK. If it looks OK, I'll smell it, if it smells Ok, I'll taste it. If it tastes OK, I'll use it.

If it's not OK, it will look, smell or taste bad so I don't want to use it, even thought it's still unlikely to be harmful. Traditionally, people use off milk to make scones, pancakes etc and cream could probably be safely used the same way.

The person who won't use the cream is irrational and wasteful if they use only the date to decide whether or not to use the cream.

Yes if it was still fully sealed.

If course.unless sour.

And even if sour there you have the basis for lovely scones! My grandmothers used to put older milk beside the range to deliberately make it go sour to make bread with it. I use any dodgy cream I have for scones, makes them beautifully light.

Yep, even if it was open all that time....and it looked OK - especially for cooking. It's cultured it lasts longer than people think...