Length of time you can keep food?

Question

Hi!

I am looking to find out how long you can keep the following things in the fridge & freezer

Jacket Potatoes (cooked)
Rice dishes
Boiled potato
Sausages
Spanish Omelette

Does anyone know how long these will keep wrapped up in the fridge, and also in the freezer, or where I could find this infomation?

Thanks very much!

Answer 1

I wouldn't keep any of it longer than three days.

Jacket potato personally I would bin it.
Rice. Very dodge to keep. Again personally I wouldn't keep that more than 24 hours and then heat it past 75 degrees for at least 5 Min's it is one of the worst things for food poisoning
Boiled spuds three days heat them up as above or as soon as they are cool make a potato salad with them
Sausages three days
Omelette's. Why would you want to keep one? would it not be really rubbery.

Answer 2

Rice dishes generally months vacuum packed.
Jacket Potatoes about 2 weeks.
Sausages about a week (cooked).
Spanish omelette 2 weeks.
Boiled Potato about a month.

Please note: A lot of people posting here are misinformed. The fact is that food can be kept up to 300% longer than what people think in the fridge that keeps it cool enough. Let's take a Prawn Mayo sandwich for example. It will not become dangerous IN the open IN a warm enviroment usually until the 4th day. The chance of getting "food poisoning" is around 34% at that stage. This is in an area where bacteria can flourish much better.

Buy a sandwich from a shop, that has "Use by:" set for the next day. Put it in the fridge, leave it for 2 weeks, and I assure you it will be edible (a different taste, however). The reason why things have a useby date is because of the slight increase of danger after that date, but it doesn't become notable until much longer. I'd suggest some people do some reading on Ascorbic Acid too, to help them understand the interactions between food. In summary, people are obsessed with health, yet the potential to get ill for keeping things more than recommended is smaller than people think.

1 day to bin a jacket potato in a fridge is ridiculous, as is rice generally after 3 days. A cooked potato is way more sturdy than people think, and will last way longer than expected.

Answer 3

The general rule is 3 days for cooked food in the fridge and up to a year in the freezer.

Answer 4

3 days in the fridge and up to year in the freezer!

Answer 5

you can keep things you have cooked in the fridge for about 3 days. baked potatoes you can reheat as you can get food poisioning.

you can keep anything in the freezer for as long as you like as the freezer freezes the cell by date

Answer 6

All of them can probably be kept for about 5 days in the fridge.

Answer 7

Rule of thumb for most non-preserved foods is no more than 4 days refrigerated! Sausages have preservatives in them and can be frozen indefinitely. If you are freezing most items, then the shelf life is longer, anywhere from 3 months to 1 year.

Answer 8

Everything bar the omelette should be fine in the fridge (air tight container) a week and should be fine in the frezzer for 4-6weeks not sure about the omlette coz if its been frozen when i defrost it may all separate!

Answer 9

it is an fairly good thought while you're attempting to lose some weight, or whether you're purely attempting to consume healthful. yet you would be easy with your self if it is going to artwork. there is not any use leaving out the reality which you pigged out on chocolate biscuits, purely so as which you do no longer could sense in charge approximately it later. That'd be denial, would not it?

Answer 10

Try Martha Stewart's website