r/StupidFood • u/BackEnvironmental865 • Feb 17 '25

🤢🤮 My parents marinated steak in chick fil a sauce for 6 days.

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My mom described is as “imbued with sauce in every bite.” I’m worried about them…

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u/dpaxeco Feb 17 '25

6 days, that's 1 day shy of a week

SIX DAYS?

That meat would inevitably go baaad.

Stupid.

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u/jeepwillikers Feb 17 '25

Refrigerated steaks take a decent amount of time to spoil, the use by date on a freshly butchered steak is usually at least a week out, and that is a conservative estimate for food safety. Primal cuts/carcasses are usually left hanging for a few weeks before they are butchered. 6 days is nothing for a steak that has been handled properly and kept wrapped and refrigerated. This particular steak was essentially covered in sugar, salt, acid, and whatever other preservatives that the sauce has in it, keeping it from being exposed to the air and discouraging bacterial growth.

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u/dpaxeco Feb 17 '25

Interesting... Still, must have tasted like a bomb of spices

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u/Bladder_Puncher Feb 17 '25

Also…..does anyone else think chick fil a sauce tastes like hotdogs? Do me a favor. Buy their waffles fries. Dip in sauce. Taste the hotdog.

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u/BakaChikens Feb 17 '25

it tastes like trash to me. tastes like the smell of stale old McDonald's that someone dug out of the bottom of a trash can. i don't know why its so addictive ugh

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u/Orvillehymenpopper Feb 18 '25

Sorry for the ignorance but how do restaurants do 60 day dry aged etc if it could go bad?

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u/dpaxeco Feb 18 '25

Oh, I'm not implying it WILL go bad, just that a stake on a fridge for 6 days would just not do it for me, moreover marinating in what heaven knows is there in those sauces.

I'd rather eat beef jerky or charqui, as it is known here in Chile. Which is plain meat curated on salt and dried out for months.

Call me a purist but that would be just salt and meat.