Oxidized steak (in other words, turned brown) --package says good for 2 more days -- eat it or not?
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Anonymous
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Bought steak on Saturday, package says good until "2 days past today" but color is brown.
Question is: Should I cook it and have family eat it? Or toss it (and complain to store)? What would do cooks on the forum do? |
Anonymous
| I would go by smell if it's still before the sell-by date. |
Anonymous
| It's fine. |
Anonymous
| Eat it. |
Anonymous
| Go by smell. |
Anonymous
| You know it is the flesh of a dead cow. It's been decomposing since its miserable life and painful death. How bad could it be. It's certainly filled with plenty of penicillin. Just saying. It's an inconvenient truth. |
Anonymous
stfu, just saying |
Anonymous
Amen sister. |
Anonymous
Mmm. Love steak. |
Anonymous
| +1 to smell. |
Anonymous
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People are very tolerant of beef that might be slightly turned. I read that the Mongol soldiers used to put raw beef under their saddles and ride on it all day to tenderize it, then they would eat it raw.
http://americatop10.com/news-and-information/history-of-burgers/ |
Anonymous
| OP, did you eat it and are you still alive? |
Anonymous
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Yummmmmmm raw steak. Said very few people.
+ go by smell - I don't like to eat grilled steaks that are 'browning' lol but I've made beef stew out of steak that were just in the fridge a day or two and turning brown but unexpired. |
Anonymous
| It's fine if it smells fine. A lot of meat in grocery stores is colored to make it look fresher than it is, so a red piece of steak is not necessarily fresher than a brown piece. |
Anonymous
| OP back - I ate it and so did my kid & we didn't die (or even get sick). Did cook it more well done than I normally do. |