grouchy old primitive describes rancid food

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11577381

Oh my.

NNN0LHI (64,625 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

Many stored foods are becoming rancid faster than they used to. Here is why

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/food/sc-food-0302-rancidity-20120307,0,1087591.story

Has your food gone rancid?

Consumers may have kitchen full of dangerous products and not know it

Does your cupboard hold a package of unfinished crackers? An old bag of whole grain flour? Some leftover nuts from holiday baking? Or perhaps a bottle of vegetable oil you've been slow to finish?

If so, you may be harboring dangerous, rancid foods.

Protecting against rancidity — which occurs when oils oxidize — has long been a challenge for home cooks, but a recent perfect stew of factors has made the issue more serious. Strangely enough, this situation comes courtesy of the rising popularity of "healthy" polyunsaturated fats, whole grain flours and warehouse stores — not bad developments on their own, but taken together they've resulted in American pantries full of food that goes rancid much faster than we're used to.

Add to that Americans' growing acclimation to the taste of rancid foods, and the problem gets bigger.

So what's wrong with eating rancid oils?

Major Nikon (2,575 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

1. Seems like they are making a much bigger deal about it than it needs to be

Rancid oils don't taste good, but I've never heard of it being dangerous. I store opened nuts and whole grain flours in either plasticware that has a rubber seal or mason jars. This helps, but you just have to buy in quantities that you're going to use in a relatively short period of time.

NNN0LHI (64,625 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

2. Don't consider advanced aging, neurological disorders, heart disease and cancer dangerous?

I wouldn't worry about it then.

[marv]

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The single greatest cause of death is.......................birth, get used to it!

[JohnnyReb]

Make up your damn minds DUmmies. You want food with or without preservatives?

[franksolich]

ALERT...ALERT...ALERT

The single greatest cause of death is.......................birth, get used to it!

Well now, I'm worried.

When I moved out here, the place hadn't been lived in for twenty years, its last inhabitant a very old woman.

The place of course was updated and brought up to "code" and all that stuff, but there were still some interesting things here.....including cupboards cluttered with tins of herbs and spices.

The opened ones, I tossed out.  But there were about forty never-opened ones.  You might know what I'm talking about here; those old-fashioned square or rectangular tins of this spice or that herb.  Many of them still had their grocery-store price-tags on them (this was before UPCs were invented), 11 cents, 19 cents, 23 cents, 29 cents, and so on.  And the address of Schilling & Schilling is listed as "New York 4, New York," rather than with a zip code.

So we're talking about some antique stuff here; the latest from the late 1950s, early 1960s.

Being a tightwad, I use them.  They don't seem rancid to me.  Should I toss them?

[DumbAss Tanker]

Well now, I'm worried.

When I moved out here, the place hadn't been lived in for twenty years, its last inhabitant a very old woman.

The place of course was updated and brought up to "code" and all that stuff, but there were still some interesting things here.....including cupboards cluttered with tins of herbs and spices.

The opened ones, I tossed out.  But there were about forty never-opened ones.  You might know what I'm talking about here; those old-fashioned square or rectangular tins of this spice or that herb.  Many of them still had their grocery-store price-tags on them (this was before UPCs were invented), 11 cents, 19 cents, 23 cents, 29 cents, and so on.  And the address of Schilling & Schilling is listed as "New York 4, New York," rather than with a zip code.

So we're talking about some antique stuff here; the latest from the late 1950s, early 1960s.

Being a tightwad, I use them.  They don't seem rancid to me.  Should I toss them?

Oils are what goes bad, spices have only very small amounts if any (Depends on the spice).  As long as they taste as they should, it's OK to use them.

On the broader issue of oils and foods containing a lot of them, like nuts, the same thing applies.  If the taste has gone off, chuck them, otherwise chow down.  Swallowing some and not realizing until the third handful that the taste is off isn't actually going to hurt you, you don't need to call the poison control center over it.

[thundley4]

ALERT...ALERT...ALERT

The single greatest cause of death is.......................birth, get used to it!

That is why the DUmmies are so against it and favor abortion.  Abortion prevents the number one cause of death: Life.

[Delmar]

Being a tightwad, I use them.  They don't seem rancid to me.  Should I toss them?

I know next to nothing about food and cooking but I would guess that old spices wouldn't hurt you but they would lose a lot of their zing.

[BEG]

Next year the "science" behind this new threat to our health will be reported as a health benefit.  I'm so sick of these "scientific studies" saying everything is going to kill us then later another study tells us it isn't or it is actually a plus to our health.

"Science" has totally screwed itself, and they wonder why people question global warming or the alarming studies telling us what the fashionable killer of month is.

[BEG]

Oh...and killer unfinished crackers?  What a joke.

[jukin]

Next year the "science" behind this new threat to our health will be reported as a health benefit.  I'm so sick of these "scientific studies" saying everything is going to kill us then later another study tells us it isn't or it is actually a plus to our health.

"Science" has totally screwed itself, and they wonder why people question global warming or the alarming studies telling us what the fashionable killer of month is.

Much like journalism, science is pretty much dead.  It has been politicized and gone down the bizarro world of the Liberal regressive left.

[GOBUCKS]

Much like journalism, science is pretty much dead.  It has been politicized and gone down the bizarro world of the Liberal regressive left.

That's so true.

"Science" has become synonymous with leftist attacks on any industry, tradition, or belief that contribute to the lifestyle Americans want and enjoy.

It's to the point where, when I come to the phrase "according to experts", I stop reading and go on to another subject.