Chef's Vapour Out Of Date Concentrate.

[scs]

I just purchased quite a large selection of concentrates from Chef's Vapour.  One of these was Pink Spot Rip Tide which has no batch code but two dates; Born On 2-14, Use By 2-15.

I explained to Chef's Vapour that I won't be using most of these concentrates for at least a couple of months and could they advise on the out of date bottle.  Their response was that it was a mislabeling at Pink Spot.

Would you be happy with that response, considering it's illegal in this country to sell products after their Use By date?  I haven't purchased anything from Chefs before so I'm not sure what to do with it, perhaps it's safer to just bin it or does concentrate just lose it's flavour over time?

[Ripshod]

This has come up before. Apparently a typo on the dates, the concentrate is okay to use - Use by 2-16

[scs]

Thank you Ripshod. I just needed confirmation it was okay.

If it were out of date (I have some concentrate approaching sell by date), is it just a question of deteriorating flavour?

[Ripshod]

I've kept concentrates with no noticable deterioration up to 6 months beyond the use by, so I consider it advice rather than essential. So long as it's unopened I imagine a year beyond the date would be okay.

That's just my opinion though scs

[Pepperty]

I've some concentrates that are well over a year old and there's no discernible change in flavour to recently bought bottles. But I do keep mine in the fridge so being cold and dark is the best storage for them.