Here's one more Kitchen Cure download for you as you restock your fridge and think about cooking for the coming week. We swiped some basic, very conservative food safety guidelines off the FDA's website and put them together in one tidy reference sheet for you.
Kitchen Cure Download: Food Storage Safety
The Kitchen Cure Spring 2009
These guidelines are second nature and habit to some of us; you may have a little alarm bell in your head that goes off once your raw chicken has been in the fridge for two days! But if you're just learning how long things stay good, or if you eat a lot of deli meat, these may be helpful.
How do you remember and plan around food safety guidelines?
These guidelines come directly from the FDA/CFSAN's Refrigerator & Freezer Storage Chart.
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That's....about half the time I keep things. I'd love to see the statistical difference in the chance of food poisoning over time....eg, at twice the recommended time have we gone from a one in a million chance to two in a million or one in a million to one in a thousand? Sure, growth is exponential, but I'd love to know how conservative these numbers are.
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That's a good idea. But never let it out-vote your nose. If it smells funny, then throw it out.
I learned at school (I'm a culinary school student), any doubt, throw it out.
Cheers!
view CookingSchoolConfidential.com's profile
this seems useful, but stilltasty.com has more information about just about everything
view f0od's profile
It's worth pointing out that the freezer guidelines are for taste, not safety; frozen foods are safe indefinitely, but their flavor and texture suffer over time. If you have a rarely opened chest freezer, and package carefully (e.g., in vacuum packaging), you can make things last longer.
Incidentally, raw eggs can be frozen -- just not in the shell.
view dtremit's profile
Uh, those guidelines are beyond conservative. 1-2 days for fresh meat? C'mon. It'd have to be poorly wrapped and past its sell-by date to go bad that fast.
view Married ...with Dinner's profile
Being a vegetarian, I'd also be curious about leftovers in the fridge. I generally go with 3-4 days but sometimes I wonder.
Also, what about an open jar of something like salsa or spaghetti sauce. I *always* wonder about that! I'd love to see a post on that (unless I've missed it previously?)
view dabble's profile
um, I bought a chicken and it's eat or freeze by date was for a week later. I'd totally waste the meat if I tossed it within 2 days. And I'd have to go shopping all the time!
Do you have some more realistic dates?
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