How to choose if the salad is bad: Olivier, Crab, Caesar

Russian housewives like to prepare salads in large amounts: if it is Olivier, then a basin, and if crab or Caesar, then by all means a pot. But, what to do if all the volumes and containers of salad preparations have not been eaten, and, how to determine that the salad is gone?

Signs of a spoiled salad

If the newly cooked salad has an unpleasant sour smell or found inside the salad bowl cloudy liquid, it is worth refraining from eating it.

Olivier

The products that make up the favorite salad of the Russians have different shelf life. Therefore, representatives of Rospotrebnadzor recommend not to eat dressed salad if it has stood in the room conditions for more than 12 hours. Even if at first glance it has not gone bad, you should not finish it in the following cases:

1. The dressing on top of the salad has begun to resemble wax.
2. A hydrogen sulfide odor appeared.
3. Olivier became more liquid in consistency than the day before.

Crab

Signs that crab salad should not be eaten include the following:

• An unpleasant odor has appeared;
• The consistency of the salad has become liquid;
• The mayonnaise has changed color and became yellowish.

Caesar

Another salad, without which most holidays can't do without, has a maximum shelf life of one day. In addition to the standard signs in the form of an unpleasant odor and a change in consistency, a sure indicator of Caesar's spoilage is soggy croutons.

Shelf life and conditions

As for the standard shelf life of popular salads, it is not recommended to eat dishes dressed with mayonnaise later than 24 hours after preparation. If the product was stored without sauce, it will not go bad if properly stored for up to 4 days. Be sure to store salads in the refrigerator.