canning supplies

[Britesea]

but that doesn't mean your BWB meat sauce is safe from botulinum

 

[Chic Rustler]

so a customer gave my coworker 2 quarts of canned figs in syrup.....dated 2009!

I warned him not to eat them but he did it anyway just to spite me. the dummy is still alive ( a week later) and he talked another guy at work into trying it.

2 years is absolute max for me

 

[CrealCritter]

so a customer gave my coworker 2 quarts of canned figs in syrup.....dated 2009!

I warned him not to eat them but he did it anyway just to spite me. the dummy is still alive ( a week later) and he talked another guy at work into trying it.

2 years is absolute max for me

Those guys take the Tide Pod challenge also?

 

[Hinotori]

When I was a kid in the 80s, Dad would bring home WW2 C rations from the local Army Depot he worked at. We ate it.

 

[farmerjan]

I've eaten canned goods over 10 years old. Especially things like applesauce and apple butter, and some other fruits although they get a little soft. And jellies and jams. Made all I could when they were plenty and ate for years if there didn't turn out to be another bumper to where I could can a bunch more. Have some on the shelf now that my mom made over 10 years ago. Have had tomatoes that were not dated..... but if the seal was good, and they smelled and looked okay when I opened them, then they got used. Sometimes things just got shoved back on shelves by accident.

 

[Hinotori]

That's how we always did it when I was a kid. Never know when it will be a bad year. This year is a bad fruit year here. We warmed up in February and trees started budding. Then it dropped back into the 20s and lower. My great uncle checked all their trees last weekend and no fruit. Not even the walnuts. They are somewhat protected there. The eastern side of the Cascades got hit pretty bad and they grow most of the food.

So it's berries for everything this year mostly. The grapes are all fine as they didn't break dormancy.

We have a bumper crop of Pacific crabapples this year. They are just now blooming. Too bad they are so tiny. They produce large amounts every other year. We've had low years with just a handful because of late cold weather.

 

[Britesea]

41 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.

2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.

3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.

4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.

 

[Hinotori]

We're well past time for storing our 7 years of grain for coming 7 years of famine.

But yes. All peoples stored extra for years of bad crops. People used to eat a wider variety of plants and animals as well so this scares me as we're at bigger risk for deficiency because of that.

 

[Hinotori]

I have some jars of tuna from 2014 left. No difference I can tell on taste or texture. The dogs have been getting it so I can use the jars. That reduces their feed bill as well. I have plenty of newer stuff.

I tried some grape juice from 2008 I just came across. Seal was good and looked fine. It's lost it's flavor so I didn't drink it. That's an age thing. 5 year old grape juice is usually fine.

Oh on eating old food. Mom came across a sealed, airtight tub with dried plums and raisins in bags last year. Of course we tried them even though the last time she dried plums was around 1991. They looked perfectly fine and she lives in the desert so low humidity. I couldn't tell they were old. I've had worse from the grocery store.

 

[Britesea]

I just opened a can of ground coffee that was dated 2013. It's been stored in a "dead" freezer sitting in an uninsulated shed. Wasn't sure what I would find, but it looks and smells just fine. I also opened a can of Planter's Mixed Nuts from about the same year, fully expecting them to have gone rancid... nope. They were delicious.