Ketchup water?
Or milk crust?
Please advise.
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Neither one is gross.
Milk crust.
Neither is gross. Ketchup water you just shake back into the ketchup. Milk crust is just powdered milk, and it’s easily brushed off. Drinking out of the carton, unless you’re the last one to use that milk, however, is gross. Shame on you!
I don’t refrigerate cooking oil, olive oil, or honey. (I would refrigerate cooking oil, but my partner insists on keeping it in the cupboard, and we haven’t died yet). I keep bread out for a day or two and then slice it & freeze it. I keep butter out (covered) but usually manage to use it up in a few days. Everything else mentioned above I refrigerate.
Oh yeah, and I’m a girl who loves milk. Mmmm….
I always heard that milk starts to smell bad long before it can make you sick. So I keep using it as long as it smells OK, sell-by date be damned.
Milk Crust = Vomiting to the 10th power
Milk in general for me (a girl) is pretty disgusting and according to my parents and friends I have a cast-iron stomach. I think it’s the level of fat content that does it for me. 2% is okay on a good day. As for the freshness of the milk, I say use it by the sell by date. I am very attuned to smells and most milk that I buy smells a little “off” come sell by time. The smell alone is enough to make me throw the hell up.
As for ketchup, mustard, and honey I have and have not refridgerated it at times. I’ve never refridgerated peanut butter or oil.
@49. It’s true. Margarine has a lot of crap in it that breaks down really fast if it’s not kept cool, butter can last days (i’ve never eaten anything left out over a week, so I don’t know about 3mos.)