Sell By Dates - Would You Use It?

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

So this is unprecedented for me but the evidence is clear, this gelatine packet has escaped more than one cupboard clear out and is so far out of date it may have a dedication in Guinness book of records

Thing is it is crystal clear and shows no signs of degradation.

So would you use it?
Even though I have plenty of in date gelatine in the cupboard I’m tempted to!

Before you say yes, check out the production and best before by date in the bottom left hand corner of the pic

 

[TastyReuben]

If I had other gelatin, then I wouldn’t. Not worried about getting sick, just that it may not perform up to snuff.

If that were all I had, though…I’d be using it - to me, “best by” means it won’t make me sick, but it may not work as intended. If it said “expires on,” I’d not be using it at all.

 

[karadekoolaid]

I think I'd ditch it simply because it's 16 years old
Although gelatine is tasteless, I'd throw it because, after all that time, the quality must have suffered. I doubt very much it would cause any damage, but my concern would be that it might not set properly.

 

[badjak]

I would also only worry about it not working anymore
And now I remember that I should have gelatin somewhere as well. Curious what the date on it would be

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

I would also only worry about it not working anymore
And now I remember that I should have gelatin somewhere as well. Curious what the date on it would be

If you beat 16 years you get a prize

 

[blades]

If you beat 16 years you get a prize

......and the prize is a batch of slightly out of date gelatin.

 

[medtran49]

When I cleaned out my stepmom's pantry after she had her devastating accident, the oldest stuff was 14ish years. We hit 7 years on a few canned things that I found when I cleaned out and rearranged our pantry. Just started on 1 of. the freezers today, there was a 3 year old best buy date on a roll of breakfast sausage. It's going out in the garbage tomorrow.

 

[medtran49]

And on a curiosity/trivia note, dollhouse makers used to use gelatin sheets for old time windows before a couple of manufacturers started making thin plastic to emulate old glass.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

When I cleaned out my stepmom's pantry after she had her devastating accident, the oldest stuff was 14ish years. We hit 7 years on a few canned things that I found when I cleaned out and rearranged our pantry. Just started on 1 the freezers today, there was a 3 year old best buy date on a roll of breakfast sausage. It's going out in the garbage tomorrow.

Sorry to ask and please don’t answer if it seem’s rude/too much but what devastating accident?

 

[medtran49]

It was years ago and she passed a few years later. She had a very bad car accident, had to be air lifted to a trauma center. Multiple broken bones, internal injuries, etc. She was in hospital for a long time, then nursing home even longer, then home care finally. I had to move in with my dad for over 3 months as he had dementia and couldn't live alone, about 900 miles from where DH and I live.

 

[badjak]

If you beat 16 years you get a prize

You win...
It's out of the original oackage, but I remember what I bought it for and that was in 2013.
So only 10-11 years old. Spring chicken

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

It was years ago and she passed a few years later. She had a very bad car accident, had to be air lifted to a trauma center. Multiple broken bones, internal injuries, etc. She was in hospital for a long time, then nursing home even longer, then home care finally. I had to move in with my dad for over 3 months as he had dementia and couldn't live alone, about 900 miles from where DH and I live.

That’s really rough! I can’t imagine how hard that was.
One of my bezzies is going through a similar thing.
Both parents, car accident, mum dead, father survived but paralysed and brain injured. Impossible to navigate.

 

[msmofet]

Gelatin lasts forever. Just saying.
I've used powdered gelatin packets (Knox) found in the back of a cabinet that were 20 years old, and they worked just fine.

 

[badjak]

In which case...
I need to find something that uses gelatin and see if it still works

 

[TastyReuben]

In which case...
I need to find something that uses gelatin and see if it still works

Is it unflavored? If so, flavor it with a ketchup-based sauce, suspend some bits of beef in it, and enter it in the challenge!