Best Before question...

[RichA]

Just wanting a general idea of what people here do. This is a specific issue that's raised its head today between my wife and her brother - both intelligent adults.

 

[upsidedown]

Sniff it

 

[garyinderry]

Im usually not too bad on using stuff past its date but that would be too long for milk.

Chances are you would pour it in the tea and it would have floaters.

 

[C7usk]

Open another if there is one... If there is I wouldn't even sniff it.. It's only milk..

 

[Hobbit]

If you have a calibrated nose ISO 15484-1, sniff it.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

I'm not touching that. Something's you can go past the date, milk isn't one of those. Absolutely not by 4 days

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Would make a good cheese

 

[backwoodsman]

Use it.

If it coagulates in the tea, then bin the tea. And the milk. My thought are that companies set dates to cover their arses - and understandably so.

But it's a practice that has not let me down since 'use by' were first introduced.

 

[RichA]

I would also sniff and use in tea or coffee if it was only a day or two past best before. Day 5 it's definitely going down the sink.
But the person using milk in this situation has lost their sense of smell. And doesn't drink tea or coffee. She only uses milk on breakfast cereal.
The other person, who was suggesting the old milk should be used, doesn't drink milk at all.

 

[rulie]

One of my friends told his wife, “Dear, it says ‘best before’, not ‘lethal after’.”
Thought that sorted it well.

 

[jim8flog]

The date on milk is a 'use by date' and not a 'best before date'

For me the moment milk starts to taste 'off' it goes down the sink and that may well be before the use by date.

 

[Burnsey]

I wouldn't, my wife would after a good sniff.

We all have different tolerances, but I often get told off for chucking stuff on the day of expiry. We grabbed a box of bottled Madri from the garage for daughters Christmas day meal and it expired June 2024. Took it, it was consumed and no reported deaths, yet.

 

[upsidedown]

The date on milk is a 'use by date' and not a 'best before date'

For me the moment milk starts to taste 'off' it goes down the sink and that may well be before the use by date.

Lidl's is Best before

 

[chellie]

Lidl's is Best before

Same on eggs as well now.

 

[KenL]

The date on milk is a 'use by date' and not a 'best before date'

For me the moment milk starts to taste 'off' it goes down the sink and that may well be before the use by date.

How long it has been open for is also a consideration.

 

[D-S]

Full fat, semi or skimmed is also a consideration.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Chuck it. Not worth the risk of getting upset tummy for a cup of milk.

Me and my Mrs had same conversation yesterday about left-over turkey and ham from Christmas Day. It looked and smelled OK, but it was just past the limit of what is recommended for such left-overs tightly wrapped and refrigerated. It was the latter but not the former…so for the sake of a couple of slices of either risking dicky tummy with us heading on hols in a weeks time, into the waste it went.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

I wouldn't, my wife would after a good sniff.

We all have different tolerances, but I often get told off for chucking stuff on the day of expiry. We grabbed a box of bottled Madri from the garage for daughters Christmas day meal and it expired June 2024. Took it, it was consumed and no reported deaths, yet.

We have some cans of Holsten Pils now 5 months past their best by date…I can’t see the issue drinking it - if that’s what my lad is happy to do.

 

[kp17]

Get it drank, tastes better with a few floaters

 

[KenL]

I buy that filtered milk. It keeps really well and tastes better to me.