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Default Food spoilage?

On Thu 05 Jun 2008 12:39:24p, George Shirley told us...

> 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
>>
>>

> My hard and fast rule is that if it has green fuzz growing on it and it
> wasn't originally green toss it.
>


What if it was originally green and originally had no fuzz? Is that
borderline?

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