Cooking/Food Safety Question #2

[JVS]

If I open a jar of mushrooms, how long can it remain in the fridge before it dangerous to eat them?

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Your first mistake is buying mushrooms in a jar.

:puke:

Buy fresh. Only fresh. Or dried.

I can't answer your question, though, since it depends on what the mushrooms are packed in, the temperature of the frige, and whether the liquid is covering up the mushrooms, and how wide the jar opening is (that is, how much air is flowing and how much surface area is exposed to the air).

But why not just close the jar? Or did you lose the lid? I never put liquids in the fridge without a cover, partly so it doesn't get the smell of other foods or smell them up, but mostly to protect myself from a spill.

I'd seal them up in tupperware.

[JVS]

2. I'm using them for hamburger topping. No need for fancy mushrooms

And I do close the lid. I just want to know how long they are safe to eat. I've heard legends of food poisoning.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. So are you using day's old hamburger and cooking til it's liquid free?

If the mushrooms don't matter, then clearly nothing else matters - might as well as crappy beef, too.

:P

Seriously, though - the taste difference, even on a burger, is HUGE (HIUGH!!!!!11!!), between fresh mushrooms and canned mushrooms.

[JVS]

4. I can't afford them so leave me the hell alone. Fresh=expensive

Either answer the question or go away.

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Sorry!

If you can keep them covered with liquid AND with a top, they'll keep for a week at least. Probably much longer, but I don't really know.

[JVS]

6. Thanks. I was afraid I might be forced to use the "block reply" feature

;-)

[brook]

7. Lookee here

how long stuff lasts. Though wny anyone would ruin a good hamburger by putting mushrooms :puke: on it, I dunno. :)

[Shell Beau]

19. I am with you on that! Jarred mushrooms are appalling!

And I love me some mushrooms!

[trof]

10. YEEHAA!

I knew it, I just KNEW it!
Thanks.
You NEVER disappoint.
:-)

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. What did I do that didn't disappoint?

[trof]

15. You be'd Rabrrrrr.

And made my day.
And made me laugh.
I even know there are 5 rs in Rabrrrrr.
I'm a devoted fan.
:-)

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. But what, specifically?

And I have 7 r's in my name - one in front, and six trailing the back.

Don't make me take the Jerry Can to you again.

[trof]

8. 4 days. According to Miz t.

The resident authority on ALL things cuisineiary.
;-)

[SPKrazy]

9. There isn't any danger

eat them

well no don't

there is danger

no
yes

hell I wouldn't eat them

(somehow I hit post, this laptop is weird sometimes, or maybe its the operator)

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

11. You should have bought canned.

They are sold in 4 ounce cans. That way if you only plan on using them once, at least you won't be stuck with alot.

[JVS]

24. Actually, I did buy canned. The jar is left over from a previous batch

I put the ones that I didn't use from the can into the jar.

[trof]

13. OK guys, we may have another classic going here. Listen up:

This thread COULD go down in the Lounge Annals.
Right along with Olive Garden, Corn Flake Encrusted Fried Chicken, and Public Breastfeeding.

We need to work it though.
The bar is set pretty high.
Come on!
I KNOW you can do it!

I am already
:rofl:

GO!

[GOPisEvil]

14. Meh...it's ALREADY fungus...

:shrug:

[trof]

16. Right! They grow them in cowshit anyway.

How bad could THAT get?

[KurtNYC]

25. Yeah. that's like sour cream-- what happens to that?

Does it go sourer?

[trof]

17. Kick.

I KNOW we can do this.

[JVS]

20. Oh great, a fucking outside agitator!

[youthere]

18. Three days.

This is a completely arbitrary number I just pulled from my ass. Three days, and that is final.

[Rabrrrrrr]

22. Clearly you know as much about mushrooms as you do being a human being.

Which is to say - abso-fucking-lutely nothing.

:eyes:

What - did you go to a community college?

:eyes:

Americans waste so much food because they worry constantly about bacteria and germs. That's why kids are so goddamned soft nowadays - we cover 'em in antibiotics, and never give their bodies a chance to develop its own immunities.

If you're gonna say "three days", you might just as well say "Hitler had the right idea, he was just an underachiever".

I'm sorry, but I thought this was a liberal board.

[Redstone]

23. If they're marinated, a long time. The vinegar is a preservative.

Redstone

[crim son]

26. Stuff like that I keep and don't worry about eating for one week.

Then it's trash. But dude, fresh isn't expensive. There are about three good-sized mushrooms in one can... maybe ten in a jar. Get the fresh ones.

on edit: "fesh" geez