On Jun 5, 12:23 pm, Ken > wrote:
> What's your rule of thumb for throwing out cooked food in the
> refrigerator. I am never sure - if it looks ok and smells ok...?
>
> Yesterday (Wednesday) I threw out a heel of meatloaf I had prepared last
> Saturday and had been eating since (I live alone and a meatloaf takes a
> while to eat). Still looked and smelled fine but... The feral cats
> outside enjoyed it anyhow.
>
> How do you judge when to throw out something that still seems ok?
>
> TIA
>
> Ken
>
> --
> "When you choose the lesser of two evils, always
> remember that it is still an evil." - Max Lerner

It depends on what your own system can handle. If you eat it and it
makes you sick afterwards, you kept it too long. I can't eat hamburger
after the 3rd day; hard boiled eggs the same; fried chicken the same.
Proteins are the most touchy things, for me. It doesn't always smell
or look bad when it is bad.

N.