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Saltine crackers are one of the best-selling types of crackers in the world, but the history of these crackers dates back to the early 1800s when a bakery came up with the original recipe. Nabisco is one of the brands most often associated with the crackers, but today, any type of cracker with salt on the top can be called a saltine cracker. How many saltine crackers equal 2 cups of crushed saltine crackers? Approximately 44 crackers or 1 package from a 1 pound ½ ounce box will equal 2 cups of crushed crackers. Can I substitute oil for butter in baking? Yes, ½ cup oil is equal to 10 tablespoons melted butter. What size eggs are used in Homemade Gourmet® recipes?
- How long does an unopened package of crackers last? The precise answer depends to a large extent on storage conditions -to maximize the shelf life of crackers (including saltines, water crackers, rice crackers, oyster crackers and animal crackers) store in a cool, dry area.
- Properly stored, an unopened package of crackers will generally stay at best quality for about 6 to 9 months.
- Are unopened crackers safe to use after the 'expiration' date on the package? Yes, provided they are properly stored and the package is undamaged - commercially packaged crackers will typically carry a ' Best By,' 'Best if Used By,' 'Best Before', or 'Best When Used By' date but this is not a safety date, it is the manufacturer's estimate of how long the crackers will remain at peak quality.
- Storage time shown is for best quality only - after that, the crackers' texture, color or flavor may change, but in most cases, they will still be safe to consume if they have been stored properly, the package is undamaged, and there are no signs of spoilage (see below).
- How can you tell if crackers are bad or spoiled? The best way is to smell and look at the crackers: if crackers develop an off odor, flavor or appearance, or if mold appears, they should be discarded.
SALTINE CRACKERS: Classic Saltine crackers in single-serve cracker packs; GREAT WITH MEALS: Saltines pair great with soups, chili, and salads. Short expiration date. The expiration date had only 6 weeks on it most crackers have 6 months I was disappointed in the short timeline of freshest.
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So I've got this sweet 'Surplus Grocery' spot, near me, a 'preppers' paradise, and about a year and a half ago I nabbed 3 boxes of Saltine Crackersfor $1 (a buck).....So last year I finished off one box. This year I hadnt really bothered the other two boxes (the kind that have four long narrow packs of crackersinside the box)...
Then recently I went to eat some from a breaker pack in one of those remaining two boxes....
I suppose they were just slightly 'expired' (by the MFG Standards anyways) at the time of purchase....
And eating them wasnt even possible (despite having toppings worth roughing it for all ready to go), as they tasted like... paint.
Not quite as bad as oil based paint, at least, nor quite like epoxy paint (which I surmise has no taste as its such a perfectly hard material), butdefinitely like 3 day dried latex acrylic paint.
So naturally I decided to dump each breaker pack into the fire, as the cats surely wouldnt walk within five feet of them...
And they were unfit for the compost setup as they have salt...
And I'll tell ya, they would probably make for halfway decent firestarter kindling, as you'd think I had just dumped shards of pine particle board onthe fire when I poured the 7 breaker packs into it rather quick like...
So naturally I got to wondering, maybe that's exactly how dried latex paint would burn...
Meaning of course I went and grabbed a big 'slap' of dried latex paint and threw it in there (the sort of patch you peel out of a paint bucket afterits fully dried for a few days, and then left to dry in the sun for a few more)...
I snip you not, I seriously had this most perfect specimen of latex paint on hand for this most ultimately serious example of a controlled scienceexperiment ever contemplated...
So I threw it in there...
Could still see many crackers not yet burnt because they didnt get far enough in there...
And the patch of latex paint in the fire next to the crackers (no pun intended), had the most astounding results...
It burned both 'faster' and 'slower' than the cracker did!
It managed to do this simultaneously (which is without a doubt a truly indisputable marvel of all known and fictional science theory)...
But after many minutes of advanced enhanced exotic calculations, and my nose, without any doubt whatsoever roughly the same amount of energy expelledfrom the patch of dried latex paint as would have roughly the same dried mass of saltine crackers (that smelled like three day old dried latex paint)would have...
AND, the smell of the fire didnt change at all from one moment before the latex paint was added (while the crackers were still going at it), andafter!!!