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[OT] fridge life of cooked mushrooms?
On 2006-06-02, Christina Websell penned:
I had an awful experience with a two day old prawn which I would not like to repeat. Ever. Two? Wow. It's true that I try not to have leftovers for shrimp meals. -- monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca |
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[OT] fridge life of cooked mushrooms?
wrote in message ... Joy wrote: Another thing that will keep longer if you don't keep it tightly sealed is lettuce. I buy the prepared salads that come in bags. If I seal the bag, it gets slimy in two or three days. If I leave the bag open, it will keep for as much as a week. I just learned this lesson with fresh basil leaves. They were in a semi-hard plastic box that had holes in it, and were fine. Then I transferred them to a ziploc bag to make a little more room in the veggie crisper, and they got all slimy in a day! Joyce The holes allow the moisture to escape. You can buy plastic bags with holes in them that are designed specifically for storing produce. Another way is to use paper bags. The paper absorb the moisture. But my problem is I forget about them as, unlike plastic bags, you can't see through them. Winnie |
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fridge life of cooked mushrooms?
On 2006-06-02, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) penned:
And I closer to TWO weeks! (Or longer, if it gets shoved to the back of the shelf.) So long as it looks and smells okay, tastes all right, and hasn't grown a white fur coat, heating it thoroughly before using it will take care of any potential problems. I tend to agree with you, but I do have this thing about tomato sauce because as a kid I guess a teacher mentioned an experiment involving growing mold on tomato sauce, and I don't think we were supposed to do it, but anyway I thought we were and left it in the basement for a few months and ... ew. White fur coat, indeed. With grey spots. -- monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca |
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[OT] fridge life of cooked mushrooms?
On 2006-06-02 17:43:36 -0500, "Christina Websell"
said: "Monique Y. Mudama" wrote in message ... About a week ago we added sauteed green onions and mushrooms, as well as grilled bell peppers and zucchini, to spaghetti sauce (the kind in a plastic jar). I was thinking that with no meat, it would still be good, but someone told me that mushrooms go bad in 2-3 days. Thoughts? Do I need to toss all that sauce? Dunno, It's up to you. I don't keep these meals-type-of thingies in my fridge for more than 3-4 days. Cheese is fine for ages. I tend to freeze meals/sauce leftovers. I think you need to toss it, Monique, there is no way I would eat a meal that had been in my fridge for a week. It would go to the chickens. 3 days is max for me. I had an awful experience with a two day old prawn which I would not like to repeat. Ever. Tweed Have to agree. 4 days would be absolute tops for me. |
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[OT] fridge life of cooked mushrooms?
"W. Leong" wrote in message
.. . wrote in message ... Joy wrote: Another thing that will keep longer if you don't keep it tightly sealed is lettuce. I buy the prepared salads that come in bags. If I seal the bag, it gets slimy in two or three days. If I leave the bag open, it will keep for as much as a week. I just learned this lesson with fresh basil leaves. They were in a semi-hard plastic box that had holes in it, and were fine. Then I transferred them to a ziploc bag to make a little more room in the veggie crisper, and they got all slimy in a day! Joyce The holes allow the moisture to escape. You can buy plastic bags with holes in them that are designed specifically for storing produce. Another way is to use paper bags. The paper absorb the moisture. But my problem is I forget about them as, unlike plastic bags, you can't see through them. Winnie Sometimes there seems to be a lot of moisture in the bag, in which case, I crumple up a paper towel and insert it after I've removed the first serving. Joy |
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[OT] fridge life of cooked mushrooms?
Matthew wrote: I learned my lesson also growing up. MY MOTHER was the type to keep food for weeks after expiration date. Here words were always oh it is still good even though the date was months out. I got food poisoning so many times growing up and eating at her house that it got to the point when we ate there I demanded to see the box or cans that she cooked and if they were out of date more than a couple days. Well, some people have exceedingly sensitive stomachs - even a change in drinking water sets them off, but "expiration dates" on some foods are purely arbitrary, with no relationship to the real world! (My mother's rules, back before canned goods bore such things were "If it bulges, throw it out." and "Don't use it if it smells bad, and always boil canned food at least ten minutes to kill any bacteria." (And of course "Never use any canned food straight from the can - you should heat it thoroughly first".) |
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fridge life of cooked mushrooms?
Matthew wrote: rule of thumb is less than a week in a frig depending on the traffic in the frig personally 5 days is tops for any cooked food in the frig unless you have it in a real vacuum seal product than two to 3 weeks depending on the food. ......Or reheat it in the interim? I can understand why these youngsters who've never know a world without electric refrigerators would be so paranoid, but I had the impression you and I were about the same generation! ....Or have you always lived in Florida? Climate does make a difference, and the old-fashioned "ice box" probably didn't solve problems so well there as it did in Minnesota's summers. (In wintertime, there, we just put food between the storm window and the sash window - often it froze, even when we didn't want it to.) |
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[OT] fridge life of cooked mushrooms?
Jo Firey wrote:
"Irulan" wrote in message ... I've kept cooked mushrooms for at least a week in the 'fridge with no adverse reactions. Most cooked foods will last at least that long as long as they are kept in tight containers. Raw mushrooms don't look or smell too good after a few days in the 'fridge though. Fresh mushrooms will keep a lot longer if you don't store them in a tightly sealed bag. And always buy ones where the gills aren't showing yet. They will keep longer. The best way to store raw mushrooms is in a paper bag or a perforated box. I just bought a small box of morels and am trying to figure out what to make of them. Our morels are very poisonous, so they have to be parboiled several times in a well-aired location before you can use them. If you don't hear from me again, I will not have done it enough times. ;o) -- Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki |
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[OT] fridge life of cooked mushrooms?
"Monique Y. Mudama" wrote in message ... On 2006-06-02, Joy penned: Another thing that will keep longer if you don't keep it tightly sealed is lettuce. I buy the prepared salads that come in bags. If I seal the bag, it gets slimy in two or three days. If I leave the bag open, it will keep for as much as a week. Those bagged salads seem to last forever -- like multiple weeks -- for me. Maybe the arid climate? As long as you try to buy them with a long "sell by" date and as long as you don't open the bag they keep pretty well. Isn't there some sort of gas in the bags that works as a preservative? Like what they have in cold storage warehouses? Jo |
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[OT] fridge life of cooked mushrooms?
Matthew wrote:
I learned my lesson also growing up. MY MOTHER was the type to keep food for weeks after expiration date. Here words were always oh it is still good even though the date was months out. I got food poisoning so many times growing up and eating at her house that it got to the point when we ate there I demanded to see the box or cans that she cooked and if they were out of date more than a couple days. Oh my god, Matthew, I feel your pain!! My mother was the same way! I didn't actually get food poisoning as a kid, so your mother must have been worse. But my mom's a pack rat, can't throw anything out, and that includes food. We often had moldy food in the fridge or cabinets, sour milk, etc. She didn't feed this to us at least! It would just sit in there for months. Even when I was visiting her a few months ago to help her move, there was a bunch of old stuff in her fridge. My sister had the unenviable job of cleaning it out. Every time she came across something out of date, we all had to hear the details: "DECEMBER 2001, Mom???" and so forth. The absolute worst episode I've ever had with my mother's inability to throw away bad food happened only two years ago. But first: GROSSNESS WARNING. This really could turn your stomach. .. .. .. .. .. .... a bit of spoiler space for the weak-stomached ... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. OK, you've been warned. I was hungry, and my mother offered me some raisins. They were in a little tiny box, a single serving's amount. So I ate it, thinking that the worst thing that could happen to raisins was mold, and I'd be able to taste that. No mold. However, the consistency was a bit grainy. I thought maybe there was sugar on it or something. But then I looked at a few of them in my hand, and noticed that the little grains were *black*. Not sugar. And then I realized that the box of raisins had been kept in a cabinet of dry foods that was overrun with some sort of grain moth infestation or other small flying insect. And then it dawned on me... I was eating BUG POOP!!! EWWWWWWWW!!!! Bleccccccchhh!! I have never since accepted anything from my mother unless it's in a sealed package and I'm opening it for the very first time! Joyce |
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