the DaysAgo Digital Day Counter

[Gifted Gourmet]

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Food-Safety Favorite

No more debates about the half-eaten jars of sauce in your fridge. The DaysAgo Digital Day Counter from Double U Products attaches to a container and times the number of days and hours it's been open — so you can eat your food before it expires.

Are you often trying to decide whether refrigerated leftovers are ready to be "tossed"?

Is this an issue that intrigues you as you look at the contents of your home refrigerator?

Much ado about nothing? or a bargain at this price?

[Anna N]

Hmmm - let's see now. Since their website lists so many things as having an opened shelf life of 1 or 2 days, my suspicion is that I need a Higher Power than this gizmo to keep me from poisoning someone with unsafe food.

[rooftop1000]

I like the list ....

half a ham lasts half as long as a whole ham

how do you know when chitterlings are spoiled anyway?

tracey

[markk]

I like it!

For me though, it's not that applicable.

In my refrigerator there's really no mystery or doubt. Things are either pristine fresh and towards the very front of the fridge, having been opened within a day or two, which is the only memory period I seem to have, or in the back of the fridge with stuff growing in the jars, and no memory for me of what they are and when they're from.

But I like the product!

[weinoo]

As I've said before, how about using a sharpie and a piece of masking tape (sort of like they do in a restaurant walk-in) to mark the date something was opened, prepped or whatever.

[Jennifer F]

It seems to me that if you can remember to put a disk on the container, then you would most likely also be able to wield a sharpie and write the date on it. Maybe I just have too much free time, though.

In my refrigerator there's really no mystery or doubt. Things are either pristine fresh and towards the very front of the fridge, having been opened within a day or two, which is the only memory period I seem to have, or in the back of the fridge with stuff growing in the jars, and no memory for me of what they are and when they're from.

I completely agree. I am usually able to see and/or smell if it is time for the trash.

I did get a chuckle out of the list of uses for pets. I've never thought of it as "litter box refreshment".

[ghostrider]

"Each package comes with two DaysAgos in 4 assorted colors"

That seems to kind of defy the laws of physics or something, but hey....

They aren't a bad idea, but since I'd need about 20 of them, the expense is decidedly prohibitive.

The USFDA storage chart is pretty good thoiugh.

Edited January 7, 2007 by ghostrider (log)

[Gifted Gourmet]

As I've said before, how about using a sharpie and a piece of masking tape (sort of like they do in a restaurant walk-in) to mark the date something was opened, prepped or whatever.

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a little reasoning, masking tape, and a sharpie can work miracles .. this product, in my estimation, is truly not worth the money ...

[Kajikit]

As I've said before, how about using a sharpie and a piece of masking tape (sort of like they do in a restaurant walk-in) to mark the date something was opened, prepped or whatever.

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a little reasoning, masking tape, and a sharpie can work miracles .. this product, in my estimation, is truly not worth the money ...

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Sounds like it would be a useful tool for somebody with a memory-impairment that literally kept them from knowing how old something was (ever look in your grandparent's refrigerator? SCARY!) Or for someone so physically/emotionally overburdened that they're running on autopilot... but for the rest of us? A bit of a waste of time/money...

(I never remember to use the counter on the britta water pitcher as it is - I change the filter whenever the water starts to taste a bit stale, or when it occurs to me that I can't remember when I last bought a new filter. I don't know that an extra counter would help me!)