tags: shelf life: stories and blogs
shelf life: stories and blogs
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Wild Rice Shelf Life
Wild rice isn’t rice, but a type of grass. It’s hardy stuff and will keep a very long time. Lunchbox kept some for 2 years with no detectable loss of quality. ...
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Expanding the Limits of Shelf Life
Use-by dates on food: iron-clad law or mere suggestion?
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Does Bottled Water Ever Go Bad?
Plastic containers aren’t as watertight as you think.
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How Does Packaged Guacamole Stay Green?
You have to tame a certain enzyme.
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How Long Do Hard-Boiled Eggs Last?
You’d better find those Easter eggs quick.
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How Much Salt Is in Salted Butter?
Some brands contain much more than others.
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Make Your Own Jerky
Homemade jerky takes little more than patience.
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How Long Can Dried Pasta Be Stored?
It doesn’t get moldy, so surely it lasts forever.
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A Cheese Primer
CHOW’s guide to the major cheese types.
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What Is Freezer Burn?
That stale taste and cardboard texture are no good.
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What Happens if You Eat One of Those Silica Gel Packets?
We’re betting they taste pretty dry.
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Snackie Cakes
Our own versions of cellophane-wrapped classics allow you to make your own old-fashioned treats.
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Meals, Ready to Eat
Today there are 24 different MRE menus, such as Cheese Tortellini, Jamaican Pork Chop, and Jambalaya. Most are actually quite tasty.
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A Ripe, Sweet Watermelon
Is the fruit now being bred more for shelf life than juiciness?
