Questions tagged [spoilage]
Use this tag for questions about food or drinks that have gone bad, or will soon be.
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What is going on with these avocados?
I recently cut open an entire bag of avocados to find that all of them were browning inside, in a pattern of veins of brown/black running through the fruit's flesh. You can especially see this in the ...
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Why does sunflower oil turned to green after frying?
After frying foods, for example, chicken or cutlets(mix of meat and potato) with frying sunflower oil, the oil turns green/greenish, is this oil spoiled and bad?
Shouldn't I use the rest of the oil ...
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Why did my potatoes and bananas spoil to mush within a week?
I bought a bag of potatoes and a hand of bananas on Sunday (from Costco)
and just let them sit in the kitchen until Friday, when I noticed water
oozing out of a few of the bananas.
Then, the next day, ...
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Shredded cheese goes bad left out when...? [duplicate]
I had just bought three, 2 lb shredded bags of cheese. Power outage while we were gone for 3 days. Weather in area was very warm. Frig was never opened until our return, however it was not cold in ...
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Can I repasturize milk that separated in a bottle? [duplicate]
I bought a bottle of pasteurized milk (not UHT) on Tuesday and accidentally left it out for two warm days. I went to discard it when I found it because of the curdling, but the smell was really ...
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Tainted tupperware
I took an orange to work inside a polypropylene food storage box, and then (ahem...) forget about it for a couple of months. Upon rediscovering it, I threw out the mouldy remnants of the orange and ...
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To be safe I just tossed some goose stock I made three weeks ago. What could realistically have been in it? [duplicate]
I just realized that I forgot about the stock I made from the Christmas goose. I am aware that stock, especially made from poultry, is an excellent growth medium for all kinds of microorganisms, so I ...
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Does shaking a jug of milk impact its longevity
With some products like non-homogenous milk and ciders with precipitate its desireable to give the jug one or two sharp shakes for consistency. But I've found myself habitually doing this even for ...
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When do bananas go bad? [duplicate]
When do bananas become unsafe for eating? Is it when they turn brown? Or black? Not for recipes, but for straight eating. Also, does the peel color even matter if the inside of the banana is still ...
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What happened to this garlic clove? [duplicate]
I bought a box of veggies and such to make dinner and it included a few cloves of garlic to add to the meal.
I opened them up and then found one of them that looked like this:
I've never seen one ...
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Sous Vide for infinite shelf life [duplicate]
Sweet potatoes already last a relatively long time. If I were to sous vide a sweet potato until everything inside of it is dead, let's say at 215°F for 24 hours, I should have a sterile potato on my ...
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Should homemade mayonnaise made from pasteurized eggs still go through the "keep at room temperature >24h before refrigerating" process?
I haven't attempted homemade mayonnaise yet, but reading about how long can it be kept for consumption I found many recipes talk about requiring to keep the prepared mayonnaise for a period at room ...
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Can frozen mango spoil?
When I opened my package of frozen mango pieces for my cake, I saw that the mango pieces were absolutely covered in sheets of ice across both sides of the package, and the mango themselves looked ...
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What happened to my frozen yeast?
I had a leftover block of commercially bought frozen yeast. I kept it it the freezer, well below 0 celsius. I'll admit I didn't check on it for years.
I opened the container today. It was stinking ...
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Can I leave cut (but airtight wrapped) aged pecorino at room temperature for a couple of hours?
I bought it for a friend and want to give it to them but I will have to travel with the aged pecorino cheese for a couple of hours at room temperature before giving it to him. Is it safe to do so?
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