It’ll probably taste better – the stuff that goes into it “matures” in casks for months before being used The original sauce was forgotten in a cellar for ages before being analysed
“Looking to make space in the storage area some 18 months later, the chemists decided to try it and discovered that the long-fermented sauce had mellowed and become palatable”
2022 or 1922? Fine either way.
It may preserve you.
Expiration dates on stuff that can last pretty much indefinitely always winds me up.
Doesn’t the flavour come from years of rotted fermented anchovies? It’ll be fine
What’s the Worcester that can happen?
What does OP mean by ‘expired’?
Mine went out of date before the first lockdown, seems not to matter.
Once the dates rubbed off the bottle it’s fair game.
You could contact this person and ask are they still alive, or did they have any negative side effects at the time.
Then brace yourself for a session of ‘talking to god on the big white telephone’ (🚽), if they did indeed get sick
You’ll be fine. Careful tho you might get some cheese on there
It went mouldy before they put it in the bottle, you’re fine
Saddest cheese on toast I’ve ever seen..
Texture can be a mess (it forms “sediment” when it gets old) but it’s safe and tastes mostly as good.
Wasn’t it Worcester sauce that was made by accident? Think they came back to an old factory and found barrels sat for like half a century, thus giving us Worcester sauce. Don’t think it can go out of date 🤷
Mine always lasts till its out of date and always tastes the same with no ill effects.
use by or best before??
It will be best before, food to go forever.
Be reet
Barely worn in.
No one is expected to finish a bottle of that, anyway. We usually inherit a bottle from our parents and then pass it down to our kids.
It’ll add to the flavour. Great vintage
Back in my grandad’s day they didn’t even have expiration dates, just sturdy tummies!
(goes to yell at a cloud)
Yes. They only put a best before date on because of EU rules. Years ago they didn’t bother. It takes 3 years to “expire” so it will be fine.
It is affected by time though. Older sauce is a lot nicer.
Worcestershire sauce doesn’t expire, instead the date on the bottle is an estimate on when the world will end. If you get further with something in the bottle, you’re one of the lucky ones
Worcester sauce IS expiration.
Ive eaten worse you will be fine
Things like Worcester sauce don’t expire. Their “best before” date is the date that they put on which is the date that in theory it still tastes at its best, assuming that it tastes it’s best when packaged up.
If it has a”use by”, then that’s use it by, or you might become ill.
Some of the nicest beers I’ve ever had have been multiple years past their best before date. I’m not dead yet.
It started out life as fermented anchovies, can’t see it getting any worse! (if it tastes fine and doesn’t look too funky then crack on)
I found a bottle in my kitchen once when I was a teen. I tried it and loved it. Started putting it on everything.
I told my mum about my new love for the sauce, and she was like you found it in the cupboard? Cause I’ve never brought a bottle.
We checked and it was something like 8 or 9 years out of date. She reckons it was probably in the cupboard when we moved into the house.
I still buy the stuff but it’s never been the same as that first bottle. Feels like I’m chasing a high.
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It’ll probably taste better – the stuff that goes into it “matures” in casks for months before being used The original sauce was forgotten in a cellar for ages before being analysed
“Looking to make space in the storage area some 18 months later, the chemists decided to try it and discovered that the long-fermented sauce had mellowed and become palatable”
2022 or 1922? Fine either way.
It may preserve you.
Expiration dates on stuff that can last pretty much indefinitely always winds me up.
Doesn’t the flavour come from years of rotted fermented anchovies? It’ll be fine
What’s the Worcester that can happen?
What does OP mean by ‘expired’?
Mine went out of date before the first lockdown, seems not to matter.
Once the dates rubbed off the bottle it’s fair game.
You could contact this person and ask are they still alive, or did they have any negative side effects at the time.
Then brace yourself for a session of ‘talking to god on the big white telephone’ (🚽), if they did indeed get sick
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/s/EB8QzfjTZ2
You’ll be fine. Careful tho you might get some cheese on there
It went mouldy before they put it in the bottle, you’re fine
Saddest cheese on toast I’ve ever seen..
Texture can be a mess (it forms “sediment” when it gets old) but it’s safe and tastes mostly as good.
Wasn’t it Worcester sauce that was made by accident? Think they came back to an old factory and found barrels sat for like half a century, thus giving us Worcester sauce. Don’t think it can go out of date 🤷
Mine always lasts till its out of date and always tastes the same with no ill effects.
use by or best before??
It will be best before, food to go forever.
Be reet
Barely worn in.
No one is expected to finish a bottle of that, anyway. We usually inherit a bottle from our parents and then pass it down to our kids.
It’ll add to the flavour. Great vintage
Back in my grandad’s day they didn’t even have expiration dates, just sturdy tummies!
(goes to yell at a cloud)
Yes. They only put a best before date on because of EU rules. Years ago they didn’t bother. It takes 3 years to “expire” so it will be fine.
It is affected by time though. Older sauce is a lot nicer.
Worcestershire sauce doesn’t expire, instead the date on the bottle is an estimate on when the world will end. If you get further with something in the bottle, you’re one of the lucky ones
Worcester sauce IS expiration.
Ive eaten worse you will be fine
Things like Worcester sauce don’t expire. Their “best before” date is the date that they put on which is the date that in theory it still tastes at its best, assuming that it tastes it’s best when packaged up.
If it has a”use by”, then that’s use it by, or you might become ill.
Some of the nicest beers I’ve ever had have been multiple years past their best before date. I’m not dead yet.
It started out life as fermented anchovies, can’t see it getting any worse! (if it tastes fine and doesn’t look too funky then crack on)
I found a bottle in my kitchen once when I was a teen. I tried it and loved it. Started putting it on everything.
I told my mum about my new love for the sauce, and she was like you found it in the cupboard? Cause I’ve never brought a bottle.
We checked and it was something like 8 or 9 years out of date. She reckons it was probably in the cupboard when we moved into the house.
I still buy the stuff but it’s never been the same as that first bottle. Feels like I’m chasing a high.