Beef left in the fridge for 3-4 days...

[Eli]

I swear, you're all completely inept at this stuff.

SMELL IT.

It does not matter if it is brown or pink, smell it. If it smells bad, you WILL know it, and you WON'T eat it.

If it smells fine, it is safe to eat.

Originally posted by: Cattlegod
you can go about a week and a half and still be fine. it starts to spoil after about 2 weeks.

This completely depends on the temperature in your refrigerator.

We used to keep our fridge at 33ºF, and I noticed that meat had a nearly indefinate lifespan. Well, not quite.. But both cooked and uncooked meat would be good for many, many days after it was put in there.

In a recent effort to safe electricity, we turned the fridge down a bit.. Now it's 37ºF in there, and meat goes bad very noticably faster. Before the change, I had never had a package of beef or chicken go bad on me.. Since the change, I've had to throw out some chicken breasts and a pound of beef.

I'm almost contemplating turning it back down. The electricity we've saved has already been eaten up by throwing food away....

 

[FoBoT]

cook it
eat it

 

[TitanDiddly]

Cook thoroughly.

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

Originally posted by: Eli
I swear, you're all completely inept at this stuff.

SMELL IT.

It does not matter if it is brown or pink, smell it. If it smells bad, you WILL know it, and you WON'T eat it.

If it smells fine, it is safe to eat.

:thumbsup:

Your ancestors spent thousands upon thousands of years evolving a sense of smell for this reason, fvcking use it.

 

[Vich]

TTIWWOP PICS

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Cattlegod
you can go about a week and a half and still be fine. it starts to spoil after about 2 weeks.

This completely depends on the temperature in your refrigerator, amongst other things.

We used to keep our fridge at 33ºF, and I noticed that meat had a nearly indefinate lifespan. Well, not quite.. But both cooked and uncooked meat would be good for many, many days after it was put in there. Two weeks(cooked) and one week(uncooked) was not uncommon. We've actually eaten leftover chicken that was in there for 3 weeks. It was sealed well, though. It smelled fine!

In a recent effort to safe electricity, we turned the fridge down a bit.. Now it's 37ºF in there, and meat goes bad very noticably faster. Before the change, I had never had a package of beef or chicken go bad on me.. Since the change, I've had to throw out some chicken breasts and a pound of beef.

I'm almost contemplating turning it back down. The $$ in electricity we've saved has already been eaten up by throwing perfectly good food away....

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: redly1
for some reason I read BEER...guess I NEED to go grab one or seven

same here! *pops open a bottle*

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: Cattlegod
you can go about a week and a half and still be fine. it starts to spoil after about 2 weeks.

This completely depends on the temperature in your refrigerator, amongst other things.

We used to keep our fridge at 33ºF, and I noticed that meat had a nearly indefinate lifespan. Well, not quite.. But both cooked and uncooked meat would be good for many, many days after it was put in there.

In a recent effort to safe electricity, we turned the fridge down a bit.. Now it's 37ºF in there, and meat goes bad very noticably faster. Before the change, I had never had a package of beef or chicken go bad on me.. Since the change, I've had to throw out some chicken breasts and a pound of beef.

I'm almost contemplating turning it back down. The $$ in electricity we've saved has already been eaten up by throwing good food away....

good point.

that's why I like the adjustments you can make in a fridge. Keep meat down low.

For the ultimate in geekness I'm sure they make a fridge that monitors temperature in three zones in the fridge.

Wanna keep something in the freezer? Get a deep freeze.

mmmmm, wireless 'fridgerator with flat panel control screen.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: Cattlegod
you can go about a week and a half and still be fine. it starts to spoil after about 2 weeks.

This completely depends on the temperature in your refrigerator, amongst other things.

We used to keep our fridge at 33ºF, and I noticed that meat had a nearly indefinate lifespan. Well, not quite.. But both cooked and uncooked meat would be good for many, many days after it was put in there.

In a recent effort to safe electricity, we turned the fridge down a bit.. Now it's 37ºF in there, and meat goes bad very noticably faster. Before the change, I had never had a package of beef or chicken go bad on me.. Since the change, I've had to throw out some chicken breasts and a pound of beef.

I'm almost contemplating turning it back down. The $$ in electricity we've saved has already been eaten up by throwing good food away....

good point.

that's why I like the adjustments you can make in a fridge. Keep meat down low.

For the ultimate in geekness I'm sure they make a fridge that monitors temperature in three zones in the fridge.

Wanna keep something in the freezer? Get a deep freeze.

mmmmm, wireless 'fridgerator with flat panel control screen.

The wacky thing is that, it seems most references to "proper" fridge temperature I've seen, all say something like 45ºF! :Q

I'd consider that bare minimum... yikes. I can't imagine how much faster things would go bad at that temperature.

Interesting point about the different areas of the fridge being different temperatures. I've actually noticed this; one of the things that prompted us to turn the fridge down, besides the electricity savings, as that the salad and vegetables were freezing because they're always on the bottom.. and it was ruining them.

My thermometer is at the top of the fridge, so that's where I'm getting my readings from. Obviously it's a bit colder near the bottom.. Our meat is usually stored down there too though, so that's curious.

At the 37º setting, our fridge was only using 8$/mo(rounded up) in electricity.... Even if setting it back to 33º raised it to 10$/mo, the saved food would more than offset the cost... The cost of the chicken and beef I've thrown away this month was about $8. :Q I had never, ever thrown any meat away in the time that it was at 33º.. That's really sort've amazing.

 

[2cpuminimum]

perhaps a compromise tempuerature of 34 degrees wouldn't freeze things as much and would still keep things from going bad as fast.

op: cook it, eat it, and then let us know if you survived.

 

[NiKeFiDO]

2cpu....the last post was 11:02pm last night... your post 10:45am today
i dont think he needs advice anymore

anyway, erik, you dead or no?

 

[Sphexi]

Most beef should be alright, if it hasn't been cooked yet. Remember that it just sits in a cooler at the store for a few days normally. If it's been cooked already (roast beef) then it might be an issue. I bought a half pound of some of the best roast beef I've ever tasted for sandwich meat on Sunday, by Wednesday it was getting slimy and smelling a bit so I had to toss it

 

[imported_thomash]

Originally posted by: redly1
for some reason I read BEER...guess I NEED to go grab one or seven

Exactly what I read... and then I thought "eat beer?"

 

[cavemanmoron]

throw it out.

 

[Eli]

lol...

 

[ktehmok]

Jesuschristonaharley, this threads' over a month old. The meat was rotten, the OP died, we buried him with some A1. Move on.