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[–] 46 points 6 months ago (8 children)

A lot of food tastes the best a short time before it spoils.

Fresh beef tastes good. One day old beef tastes like chewing on a rubber piece. Stored at the right temperature in a low moisture atmosphere for 4 weeks it turns into exclusive dry aged beef. One more week and it's spoiled.

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  • [–] 49 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    This is a different thing. It's because it's aged as a cheese wheel in controlled conditions, when you buy it, it's not a wheel anymore, it's been opened and you buy a wedge, hence it's open to contamination.

    It's still unlikely for a 7 year aged cheese to go bad in two weeks unleass you store it unrefrigerated, but if you vacuum seal it, it will last a long time.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    It tasts better before it spoils? Pffft please, who told you that?

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    And, here I've been leaving it out on the counter for a month before eating it. I just thought I didn't like beef.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    Dry-aged beef has spoiled. The trick to it is that you need a fairly large piece, like a whole leg or side, and then you trim off all the bad stuff on the outside. More simply, they don’t butcher it then age it. If you go buy a piece of dry-aged beef it’s gunna act a lot like any other piece of meat but if it hadn’t been butchered you could just keep aging it beyond when this individual piece would have gone bad.

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