Would you use 1 day out date beef joint?

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Expired yesterday, dh was meant to stick in the slow cooker last night but forgot. 🙄
It smells fine and isnt brown, is it okay to put in the slow cooker this morning & eat tonight?

Good grief yes.

Absolutely, if it looks and smells OK then yes I would, and do.

Of course. If it still smelled of fresh blood

Chicken no, beef yes

Was it stored in the fridge? Then of course. Do you think it went "off" at midnight?

Yes of course. Beef is not a meat I worry about compared to other types.

I just boiled up a load of beef that I found at the back of the freezer from 5 years ago. Perfectly fine (although I did slightly pause, but pretended I was a Viking using a carcass I had buried in the snow for the winter). I'm not advising others to do this btw, before I get told off by the freezer police but the beef was (almost) straight from the field.

Sorry I just get paranoid ds is diabetic and sickness can end him up in hospital. 😅
was stored in the fridge and Its going in the slow cooker now!

Will be lovely.

Pass it over, I'll eat it😋

Of course. Decent beef will have already been hung for 2 or preferably 3 weeks so another day isn’t going to make a difference.

OP, as I tell my children, it doesn’t turn to ashes at midnight on its sell-by date! Your best indicator for meat is always your nose - if it smells and looks OK, then crack on. And beef one day over should be fine in any case, If it were chicken or fish, then exercise caution (even before sell-by date sometimes) but beef will be fine.

Absolutely fine 😊

If it looks and smells fine, it is fine.

I'd be more careful with chicken, but beef is pretty safe.

Again, use your senses. If it smells fine, then it is just wasteful to throw it away. Off chicken looks slimy, and smells bad!

The beef joint doesn't know it was supposed to "go off" 8 hours ago - just stick it in the slow cooker now!

And what do you think would have happened to the chicken in the 8 hours since the factory decided its UB date?

It's all about the storage, keeping any meat out of the fridge in a warm kitchen for days on end means it's more likely to be off even before the midnight expiry.

I said I'd be more careful with chicken, not that I'd throw it out.

Industry has long argued that dates on red meat are way too short for no good reason and encourage waste. I rememebr articles goimg years back about this.
Even chicken is fine next day as pps said. If it isn't, it most likely wasn't fine even before the date passed!

Yes

I wouldn’t but I’m a stickler for dates, I’m autistic and have OCD so absolutely have to stick to them.

Yes if it smells ok

Of course! The best beef is hung for weeks before it’s sold, and another 24 hours isn’t going to make a difference.

Yes this - I've had chicken frozen on or before the sell-by date that didn't smell right coming out of the freezer a couple of weeks later.

You can also get meat thermometers (I cook a lot of chicken and use ours loads) with temperatures for poultry, and for well done/medium/ medium rare beef or lamb. These are quite reassuring as if I'm doing say 4 turkey burgers I can test each of them so I know it's not just one that's done properly.

Don't apologise OP...having worked on a diabetes ward I can understand your worries! But it should be fine x

Yep