You can usually tell if meat has spoiled by a change in color, odor, and texture. Spoiled meat will usually be gray to brown in color, have an acid or yeasty odor and will be slimy and even mushy to the touch.
== == THE GAG TEST
Anything that makes you gag is spoiled (except for leftovers from what you cooked for yourself last night). EGGS
When something starts pecking its way out of the shell, the egg is probably past its prime. DAIRY PRODUCTS
Milk is spoiled when it starts to look like yogurt. Yogurt is spoiled when it starts to look like cottage cheese. Cottage cheese is spoiled when it starts to look like regular cheese. Regular cheese is nothing but spoiled milk anyway and can't get any more spoiled than it is already. Cheddar cheese is spoiled when you think it is blue cheese but you realize you've never purchased that kind. MAYONNAISE
If it makes you violently ill after you eat it, the mayonnaise is spoiled. FROZEN FOODS
Frozen foods that have become an integral part of the defrosting problem in your freezer compartment will probably be spoiled (or wrecked anyway) by the time you pry them out with a kitchen knife. EXPIRATION DATES
This is NOT a marketing ploy to encourage you to throw away perfectly good food so that you'll spend more on groceries. Perhaps you'd benefit by having a calendar in your kitchen. MEAT
If opening the refrigerator door causes stray animals from a three-block radius to congregate outside your house, the meat is spoiled. BREAD
Sesame seeds and Poppy seeds are the only officially acceptable "spots" that should be seen on the surface of any loaf of bread. Fuzzy and hairy looking white or green growth areas are a good indication that your bread has turned into a pharmaceutical laboratory experiment. FLOUR
Flour is spoiled when it wiggles. LETTUCE
Bibb lettuce is spoiled when you can't get it off the bottom of the vegetable crisper without Comet. Romaine lettuce is spoiled when it turns liquid. (We didn't think you needed guidance with this one) CANNED GOODS
Any canned goods that have become the size or shape of a softball should be disposed of.
Carefully. CARROTS
A carrot that you can tie a clove hitch in is not fresh. RAISINS
Raisins should not be harder than your teeth. POTATOES
If it looks like it is ready for planting, toss it. CHIP DIP
If you can take it out of its container and bounce it on the floor, it has gone bad. EMPTY CONTAINERS
Putting empty containers back into the refrigerator is an old trick, but it only works if you live with someone or have a maid. UNMARKED ITEMS
You know it is well beyond prime when you're tempted to discard the Tupperware along with the food. Generally speaking, Tupperware containers should not burp when you open them. GENERAL RULE OF THUMB
Most food cannot be kept longer than the average life span of a hamster. Keep a hamster in or nearby your refrigerator to gauge this.
You can smell it and if it smells bad, don't eat it. You can also touch it and if it is slimy, avoid eating it. You can also make a guess if the meat is bad from the color. Look at the expiration date. When in doubt, throw it out.
The smell. If there are white spots on them. If they are slimey.
Does it look a strange color? Does it have something growing on it? Is the
juice in the package cloudy? Does it smell putrid?
By look and smell. If in doubt, don't eat it!
It usually goes into a solid block if it i spoiled.
Most likely. It shouldn't smell spoiled. And it should be a healthy red color. No. By the way, vegetarians don't eat steak.
Sliminess, off-odor and unusual colors will tell you if mashed potatoes are spoiled.
They are spoiled when they are brown and slimy.
To tell if a like is spoiled it will have browny Blacky large spots on it and will be really soft and easy to squeeze
You can tell if a smoked turkey leg is spoiled in a few ways. The biggest way is that it smells bad.
Reheated too much, or it's going off. Chuck it.
I would think so. If it is discolored it probably has gone rotten. If you are talking about dark red or black, it might just be over done. If you are talking about yellow or green with fuzz, then yes, It is spoiled. :)
Spoiled meat will smell spoiled. The color of the surface of the meat is from oxygenation, being exposed to air, and can vary from red to gray. A steak frozen for a month and then thawed in the fridge for a few days is more than likely fine (unless there is a bad smell).
If several parts of the steak are black.
If a pork loin is spoiled it will have a foul smell and color. Throw it away because it is unsafe to eat spoiled food.
Sight and Smell!