"Use By" Dates - A Rule Or A Guideline?

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PostRe: "Use By" Dates - A Rule Or A Guideline?
by That » Fri Jul 19, 2019 3:36 pm

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:
IAmTheSaladMan wrote:A former colleague of mine who must have smoked about 20 cigarettes a day wouldn't eat pork or anything cooked on a barbecue because she reckoned they'd cause cancer.

I think there is a bit of science behind that, with increased carcinogen(esis?) when cooking anything that ends up with burnt bits on it, like that 'charcoal effect' you get from the BBQ. Could just be one of those myths, though, we'll never know unless Karl pops up to confirm.

:lol: Well, since you insist...

Eating red meat---particularly charred, cured, or processed red meat---is a fairly big risk factor for colon cancer IIRC.

But, if you're smoking 20 a day you have much much bigger problems obviously.

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PostRe: "Use By" Dates - A Rule Or A Guideline?
by Abacus » Fri Jul 19, 2019 3:40 pm

I went to a sushi making class at Yo Sushi a little while back. Great fun and good to go with someone as a gift experience thing with your significant other, when you've run out of things to talk about, i.e. from around 6 months in. Also really interesting to learn how to use a sushi mat yourself and make your own tray of sushi, and also to see how to properly fillet a salmon when they demonstrate it, even though it would look like it was fed through a woodchipper if I tried that.

Anyway, everyone frets about the fresh fish and how long it's been going around the conveyor belt. But apparently what they really worry about is the rice part, as that's the danger element, and that's why they time stamp the dishes to remove them in time. Rice is naturally full of moisture and at the right temperature is a bacterial breeding ground with the biggest risk of food poisoning.

Best to cook it, let any spare cool, then refrigerate as soon as it's cool, before later reheating properly. And yes, by reheating properly a fried rice is one of the finest uses known to man! In fact, it doesn't work nearly as well with fresh rice. Properly fried to heck and with a few leftovers (I'd recommend some diced spam, which is bizarrely a delicacy in Hong Kong) plus soy etc it's absolutely fine. Better than fine, in fact

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PostRe: "Use By" Dates - A Rule Or A Guideline?
by Cumberdanes » Fri Jul 19, 2019 3:46 pm

Moggy wrote:
Oblomov Boblomov wrote:
IAmTheSaladMan wrote:
Preezy wrote:
BTB wrote:People in offices always seem terrified of microwaving some things, heard a couple of people saying they'd never reheat pork, chicken they would but pork is asking for trouble :?

A girl in my office was very loud in declaring that people shouldn't use microwaves at all because it can:

1 - give you cancer
2 - make your food radioactive

No amount of explaining the actual science behind how microwaves work would convince her otherwise.

"look we're not going to agree on this, you can't change my mind I know I'm right"

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A former colleague of mine who must have smoked about 20 cigarettes a day wouldn't eat pork or anything cooked on a barbecue because she reckoned they'd cause cancer.

I think there is a bit of science behind that, with increased carcinogen(esis?) when cooking anything that ends up with burnt bits on it, like that 'charcoal effect' you get from the BBQ. Could just be one of those myths, though, we'll never know unless Karl pops up to confirm.


I don’t think he was doubting the science of burnt food giving you cancer, more laughing that the person avoiding barbecued food smokes 20 cigarettes a day.


Yep, she was also a non-practising Jew that drove a Volkswagen which always amused me.

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PostRe: "Use By" Dates - A Rule Or A Guideline?
by Abacus » Fri Jul 19, 2019 5:28 pm

What sort of jokes did it tell?

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PostRe: "Use By" Dates - A Rule Or A Guideline?
by Oblomov Boblomov » Fri Jul 19, 2019 5:52 pm

Karl_ wrote:
Oblomov Boblomov wrote:
IAmTheSaladMan wrote:A former colleague of mine who must have smoked about 20 cigarettes a day wouldn't eat pork or anything cooked on a barbecue because she reckoned they'd cause cancer.

I think there is a bit of science behind that, with increased carcinogen(esis?) when cooking anything that ends up with burnt bits on it, like that 'charcoal effect' you get from the BBQ. Could just be one of those myths, though, we'll never know unless Karl pops up to confirm.

:lol: Well, since you insist...

Eating red meat---particularly charred, cured, or processed red meat---is a fairly big risk factor for colon cancer IIRC.

But, if you're smoking 20 a day you have much much bigger problems obviously.

Karl Konfirms It

I eat absolutely far too much red meat, in various forms, but I don't smoke at all, so I am 100% in the clear, never going to get cancer ever 8-).

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PostRe: "Use By" Dates - A Rule Or A Guideline?
by Cumberdanes » Fri Jul 19, 2019 6:28 pm

Abacus wrote:What sort of jokes did it tell?


It did impressions, man you should have seen it do Skoda.

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