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otatop



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 07 11:47 am    Post subject: silly bacon question Reply with quote
    

How long will it keep in the fridge? I mean bacon that was bought from my (excellent) butcher, sliced and wrapped.

tahir



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 07 1:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Someone on here must know....

sean
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 07 1:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Ages. At least a couple of weeks, probably more like months. Have you made some sort of accidental bulk-buy?

bernie-woman



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 07 1:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It does depend on how long it has been about at the butchers but a good two to three weeks if not longer - it doesn't seem to last long in the fridge in this house - always getting added to things or put in a sandwich

I have frozen bacon before when I have bought a large amount - give it a good sniff - off bacon smells definitely off

judith



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 07 1:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I would happily keep it a week. It will probably keep longer, but I would take it out of any plastic wrapping and rewrap in greaseproof paper to stop it sweating.

Behemoth



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 07 1:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Go with your nose - a lot oc commercial bacon is cured for flavour rather than preservation.

alison
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 07 1:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

How about this

https://www.dupagehealth.org/safefood/consumer/misc/coldchart.asp?category=bacon

dougal



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 07 2:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Do you have a vacuum packer?
That should double the ordinary storage life.

I'd suggest you parcel it up about a week's worth at a time and (if nothing else) freeze everything apart from this week's.
Even separate parcelling in the fridge helps, because most of it is going to be screened from repeated exposure to fresh air.
Before parcelling, I'd try and stack the stuff as neatly as possible, minimising the exposed surface. (Bacon keeps longer if uncut.)

otatop



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 07 3:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Thanks everyone. It's not a huge amount, and usually would have been sandwiched fairly quickly. I bought it the weekend before last intending to make pasties and a quiche - but my day went all wrong, and since then OH and I have passed like ships in the night because of his shifts. I was planning to turn it into pasta sauce tonight, but didn't want to buy other ingredients on my way home only to have to throw the bacon away.

Apart from that, I've often wondered as I hate throwing food away.

footprints



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 07 3:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

wet flabby bacon keeps no time at all. I have bacon in the fridge now in a roll that must be over 2 months old

If I could get sorted, I would post pictures.

Incidentally, even really really good dry cured bacon doesn't keep well once sliced.

Does anybody else go for "aged" bacon. Before we were making our own, I paid £12 a kilo for a small roll of dry cured with a black end. Butcher from Yorkshire told me that it was marked down'cos of the black end. I think that if you have never tried bacon with a bit of age, you are missing out.

It is an aquired taste in this age of vac pac, but I remember sides of bacon (bone in) hanging in the grocers when I was a child, and it was almost black on the inside.

People older than myself may well know what I'm on about (I'm 53)

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