Is It Safe to Leave Corned Beef Pastie Out Overnight
Would cornish pasties be okay to eat a day or two after use by date?
Bought some pasties from Lidl and haven't got round to eating them. The use by date is today, but if I ate one or two tomorrow and next day, would it be okay?
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I'd say it's a bit dodgy - you have to be a bit more careful with anything that has already been cooked once and allowed to cool down.
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if the use by date is today either eat them or freeze them, that's what I'd do.
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Aren't you supposed to freeze them on the day of purchase? I thought freezing food after it's been refrigerated for days isn't good. I could be wrong.
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My rule is, if it's alright to eat, it's alright to freeze. I've never food poisoned anyone yet.
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Fair enough. I will freeze a pack then.
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Cut it open a little, if the filling smells fine then eat it.
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Cool
Damn you, you've made me want Cornish pasties now lol 
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Not necessarily, sometimes food tastes and smells fine but it's not
What you're saying is usually right though
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Sounds pretty horrible really.
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What sounds horrible - Cornish Pasties?
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I've always thought that's a load of rubbish. If it's OK to eat then it's OK to freeze.
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I'd happily eat them a few days later, especially if they'd been kept in the fridge
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I pay little regard to dates on packaging, preferring to use my own judgement but then again I'm not paranoid about such things.
My fridge is on a pretty cold setting so normally I'd be more than happy to eat a pasty a couple of weeks past the use by date.
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I agree. As long as it goes into your fridge as soon as possible after purchase it doesn't matter if has been in your fridge for a few days or the shop's before freezing. Food safety advice is always written to be on the safe side to take into account a) stupid people and b) the chances of the retailer/producer being sued.
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I ate an M&S lamb ready meal yesterday.
Use by was last Saturday.
It's a load of nonsense.
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I pay little attention to dates on food. Not to a ridiculous extent but a few days past .
I trust my nose and eyes, if it looks or smells a bit dodgy then the food gets binned, an example is if one has bought some meat or poultry in plastic type packaging; normally the film covering or parcel is flat and a bit pliable, but if it does balloon (particular chicken or sausages), then I am suspicious.
Equally I have bought stuff with a use by date of that day (reduced heavily because of that) and it has been off.
An example is a whole chicken I snapped up for 50p with the intention of it being our dinner, my sarnie filling for the next day and tea for the Beast (our cat, loves chicken, gets all excited when he smells it cooking)
I got home put the oven on, open the chicken and got an horrendous stink. As the store is only 3 miles up the road, on a point of principle I took it back; it stank so badly it couldn't have gone off in the few hours between it being a perfectly acceptable chicken to sell at full price, and being 50p.
The assistant was a bit snarky about me wanting a refund of 50p for this 'rotting corpse' (my words, I am prone to hyperbole), and initially refused with argument of 'What did I expect' (wtf, I expected not be sold rancid food, no matter what the price)
Eventually, a manager turned up, looked at my receipt, caught the whiff of chicken, and told the assistant to get a full priced, well in date chicken off the shelf and give me a refund.
Obviously this a bit of an extreme, but my point is, that use by dates are somewhat of an arse covering exercise for the stores and their suppliers, but equally just because one has bought something 'in date' we should still use our eyes and nose.
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As long as you don't let it hang about for a long time when defrosting. Also, freezing just slows decay, it doesn't stop it.
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Let common sense be your guide. If it looks alright and smells fine then a cornish pasty is going to be perfectly safe to eat.
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Yes they'll be absolutely fine OP.
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The only problem with that is that things like Cornish pasties will need to be defrosted (preferably in the fridge for a day) before you can eat them. Once you start defrosting you're restarting the clock, so to speak (and of course the freezing in the first place takes a few hours to complete).
While that is probably OK if the food is frozen on the use-by date, it is technically over-date when you come to eat it later.
Certainly if you freeze a couple of days after the use-by date and then leave it in the freezer for a couple of months before finally eating you're asking for trouble. Common sense is key.
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I've never taken any notice of use by dates, often buy things like pies and pasties which are reduced as it is the last day the shop can sell them, usually freeze them but sometimes keep for next day in the fridge. I'm still here!
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Nah, you can put it straight in the oven from frozen.
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