| ▲ | spiffytech a day ago |
| When I open milk, I write the date on the cap to help keep track of how long it'll remain good. |
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| ▲ | wongarsu a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| My method is that I assume it's gone bad when it tastes sour. |
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| ▲ | stevetron a day ago | parent | next [-] | | I throw away bread when the green fuzzy stuff on it no longer tastes good. | | |
| ▲ | wongarsu a day ago | parent [-] | | I can taste the mold in bread before it's grown big enough to become visible. For most foods evolution has graced us with the ability to see, smell or taste any issues well before they actually become a problem. There are some things you have to look out for like botulism or salmonella, but for simple foods like bread and milk there isn't much point in taking precautions |
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| ▲ | hk__2 a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yeah, no need to write anything down when you already have a detector built-in in your body called "nose+tongue" (well, at least for milk). |
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| ▲ | pasc1878 a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Much easier to just drink enough so there is no chance of that happening. But then I am in UK where milk is easily obtained in 2 pint or less packages and is all long term - over a week. It is harder to gat 4 int or gallon containers which I think are more common in the US. |
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| ▲ | stevetron a day ago | parent [-] | | In the US, the way milk is sold, is that larger amounts cost less. In other words, the 1/2-gallon container, buy two of those, and it costs significantly more than a single 1-gallon container. It gets even worse for quarts. But I seldom buy in the 1-gallon container as it will generally spoil before I've used it all, so there isn't any savings there for me. | | |
| ▲ | Suppafly a day ago | parent [-] | | >In other words, the 1/2-gallon container, buy two of those, and it costs significantly more than a single 1-gallon container. Except sometimes the 1/2 gallons will be randomly on sale where you can get like 3 of them for the price of a gallon. Milk economics makes no sense to me. But yeah, it's usually cheaper to buy more than you need and just throw it out if you don't use it, as is the American way. | | |
| ▲ | notpushkin 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | It also usually sours I think? You can still use that for pancakes or something... not sure because I’m too lazy and throw it away myself. | |
| ▲ | omegaham a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Inversely, I've also seen promotions where the gallon is heavily featured in the ads, and they're selling the half gallon for full price. Neat, you're paying extra to get less milk! |
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