Bread bought on August 5th, 2018, and is still good to eat.

[Retirednsmilin308]

OK, my friends. On another thread here, I asked to only post about survival type food situations you have personally done or personally know about. That is why I am posting this thread now.

Back on Sunday, August 5th, 2018, I bought some bread as an experiment and am happy to report immediate happy results. The bread is still good, smells like the day I bought it, and have eaten one already and am eating another one now.

What is nicer, you do not need to do a thing.

BACKGROUND: I love the MODERN MARVELS series of videos. I got one on bread, and in it they mentioned tortillas are sometimes made to last several weeks as some of their customers do not have refrigeration in their homes. Tortillas are also a very old form of bread and has been used long before electricity anyway.

Alright, I thought I would give it a try after throwing out some out-dated tortillas sitting on the top of my frig that looked and smelled just fine. No mold either.

DING !!! a light bulb lit up in my fevered survivalist mind and I decided to do an experiment.

A. I got that very same brand of tortillas, but this time, I wrote down the date I bought them....Sunday, August 5th, 2018.

B. Next, I opened the package and ate one that day I bought them. Good and yummy with a rolled up slice of deli turkey, mayo and spinach.

C. Then I put them in another plastic food storage bag with a sliding zipper thingy on it. In the bag I also put their original bag with the date I wrote in red marker.

D. Set the whole bag and its contents on top of the refrigerator up until today, when I opened it and ate two of them.

ZERO signs of mold, the smell was just fine, and they tasted great. These I ate all by themselves to isolate any icky stuff that might make me sick so as to know it might have been them and nothing else.

I have been told it takes about three hours for any bad things you eat to have an effect on you.

Time starts now....0830...Feb 17th, 2020.

Could someone else do the math as to how long they had been sitting on top my frig in the bag ???
I have to get busy finishing the workbench in shed 1 before the rains come tomorrow.

If i am fine in the next several hours and by tomorrow, I would say the experiment was a success and you can get certain brands of tortillas to use as bread in an emergency with no refrigeration.

Your guinea pig,
Dave

[Retirednsmilin308]

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[nathanbforrest45]

I remember when the grocery stores would sell "day old bread" for half the price of a "fresh" loaf. When I was in high school I worked for Winn Dixie Food Stores and bread was labeled for three or four days (Monday Tuesday, Wednesday/Thursday through Sunday") Now, because of all the preservatives a loaf of bread will last longer than we will. I don't know if that is a good thing or not.

[Lummy]

I have also noticed the longevity of flour tortillas, R&S308. Remarkable.

[countryboy]

We keep our tortillas in the fridge, and I'll eat them unless they have mold on them. Corn tortillas don't hold up quite as well, they get a funky smell before the mold shows up. Flour tortillas never go bad in our house, since they are a staple. Corn sometimes become deer food, lol.

Cool experiment though.

[Retirednsmilin308]

Three hours and 42 minutes passed so far. No ill affects.
...and I was working in the shed the whole time.


How cool would it be to have a bread item last 18 months with no refrigeration and just sitting on top your frig.

[Standing Wolf]

My son, the amateur chef, makes the greatest quesadillas, so both our fridges are full of flour tortillas - not sure how long some of them have been in there. Now he's on the Keto Diet, however, and doesn't eat anything like that. He is moving to D.C. in about a week, so I guess it's about time to go through and sort out what is still good. Your post gives me hope.

[carolina73]

Maybe you should have started by testing something safer. Like Twinkies.

BTW. Does your girlfriend have your password so she can tell us if it does not work out?

My wife refrigerates and freezes bread. It does dry it out. Those tortillas start flaking.

[countryboy]

Maybe you should have started by testing something safer. Like Twinkies.

BTW. Does your girlfriend have your password so she can tell us if it does not work out?

My wife refrigerates and freezes bread. It does dry it out. Those tortillas start flaking.

My wife freezes bread too. I don't like the results.

[Retirednsmilin308]

My son, the amateur chef, makes the greatest quesadillas, so both our fridges are full of flour tortillas - not sure how long some of them have been in there. Now he's on the Keto Diet, however, and doesn't eat anything like that. He is moving to D.C. in about a week, so I guess it's about time to go through and sort out what is still good. Your post gives me hope.

I am not sure if it is ALL tortillas, or just some made a special way. Maybe they did not include some ingredient.
I also do not know if it was letting them be exposed to light that helped. I all know is it has been 21 hours since i ate two of them with no ill affects at all.


I was thinking about making quesadillas with several of them anyway, and your post sealed the deal.