Category: Business

A can of cranberry sauce sits in the pantry for a year. Then on Thanksgiving it’s open on the counter next to a pot of homemade sauce cooling on the stove. The answer changes at every step, so here is each step with its source....

There is a half-used can of cranberry sauce in the refrigerator, and a pot of homemade sauce from last weekend sitting next to it. They don’t follow the same rules, and the answers online range from 5 days to 2 years. Here is...

Yes, hot cocoa mix can go bad, but a printed best-by date doesn’t automatically mean it’s unsafe. Here is what the makers and the extension guides say, and where they say nothing. Does hot cocoa mix go bad? The short answer:...

A cloudy jug at the orchard stand, a clear bottle on a grocery shelf, and a pot of mulled cider on the stove all get called “cider.” They don’t all belong in the refrigerator. The answer changes with the type, so here is each...

You pick up a tub of Cool Whip from the freezer aisle, and a week later you are wondering where it’s supposed to live. It’s a frozen product that ends up on a refrigerator shelf, then on a dessert table, so the rules change at...

There is a half-used tub of Cool Whip in the refrigerator, and you can’t remember when it went in. It lives in the freezer at the store, then in the refrigerator after it thaws, so the question isn’t as simple as it is for a jar...