How Long Can You Keep a Beef Sandwich Out

May 19, 2003

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• #1

I'm a guy so I am not a professional on the subject. Here's the deal - I've been skipping lunch at work every single day for the last year because I am too lazy to take a few minutes every morning before heading to work to make one.

My plan is, to buy a long size of Italian bread, some deli meats with some mustard and sandwich peppers (the ones bathed in vinegar.)

My plan is to cut it and store them in individual aluminium foil and sandwich bags and have them ready to go for Monday - Friday.

My question is, will the sandwiches be rotten by Friday if I prepare everything on Sunday and keep them wrapped?

Any particular brand of meat seem better than another for storage?

• #2

Rotten? No. Stale? Hell yes.

Sep 20, 2003

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bread goes stale in the fridge. meat tastes bad to me after 2 days.

Dec 26, 2004

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Skipping lunch for a year? I would be dead.

Due to mustard and peppers, your sandwich will be completely soggy in a day. I usually make a salad the night before or bring in leftovers to heat up.

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bread goes stale in the fridge. meat tastes bad to me after 2 days.

yep. refrigerating actually makes bread go stale faster.

also, parts in contact with anything that has moisture in it will get soggy.

if you prep everything on sunday it will be nasty by tuesday, if not monday.

May 19, 2003

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I always store my bread in the fridge for days and it doesn't go stale as long as it's wrapped - usually in this sort of packaging. I've had it remain soft for weeks as long as it's wrapped. Would wrapping the sandwiches in plastic help at all?

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I always store my bread in the fridge for days and it doesn't go stale as long as it's wrapped - usually in this sort of packaging. I've had it remain soft for weeks as long as it's wrapped. Would wrapping the sandwiches in plastic help at all?

Bread doesn't work like that. Bread in the fridge goes stale because of the cold. It breaks down the starches in the bread. This will happen if its wrapped in plastic or not.

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I always store my bread in the fridge for days and it doesn't go stale as long as it's wrapped - usually in this sort of packaging. I've had it remain soft for weeks as long as it's wrapped. Would wrapping the sandwiches in plastic help at all?

that's not bread. :colbert:

• #10

Here here. Frankly, this idea borders outright catastrophe.

On day two, this sandwich will turn to total shit.

The juices from the tomatoes, lettuce, onions, dressing, etc. will seep into the bread. And, the fridge will dry out most of the sandwich.

The meats will dry out as well.

You will have a pile of crap by Tuesday,.. probably Monday.

• #11

grab a bunch of protein bars.

Aug 8, 2001

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• #12

Wraps will keep better. Still not as good as making it fresh each day, though. You should keep the condiments separately at work (to avoid seeping into the bread) or just pack the bread and ingredients separately in baggies, foil, or plastic containers and assemble at work if you really want to.

If it's not a matter of time but simply laziness, it helps to listen to stuff while you are making food. I listen to podcasts and music before heading out to work.

• #13

you should just eat McDonalds every day

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• #14

They'll be fine.

No worse than than if you had bought a loaf of bread and the meats and cheeses on Sunday and made sandwiches each morning. Just a lot more stale and more soggy.

That four minutes it would take to make a fresh sandwich each morning would surely derail your entire day's schedule, so I don't blame you.

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Tomatoes and other juicy items will go bad in a day, pickles can last, so can meat and bread, but not so much if assembled into a sandwich.

What you could do is take saran wrap and lay out all the meats and cheeses ready to assemble in sandwich portions, and put something together night before or that morning.

Get a Rapid Ramen cooker, its a fast good snack or lunch.

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The bread will be hard on the outside and soggy on the inside. Best to separate the ingredients into individual baggies and assemble when ready to eat.

Jun 22, 2004

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Don't listen to the wussies on OT. I've never run into a more delicate bunch of princesses when it comes to food.

I've eaten 2-3 week old sandwiches and it's fine. You're only using meat and cheese. Drain the peppers and it won't even be that soggy.

Dec 26, 2004

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Don't listen to the wussies on OT. I've never run into a more delicate bunch of princesses when it comes to food.

I've eaten 2-3 week old sandwiches and it's fine. You're only using meat and cheese. Drain the peppers and it won't even be that soggy.

follow this and post pictures in 2-3 weeks. we'll be waiting impatiently.

• #19

bread goes stale in the fridge. meat tastes bad to me after 2 days.

^^^

I don't have a scientific answer, just a personal preference that leftovers get dumped after 48 hours.

• #20

follow this and post pictures in 2-3 weeks. we'll be waiting impatiently.

the more documentation the better

now some people can eat like this after conditioning their system. Man can survive on much less but damnit why live third world when you dont have to man? think of the children

Jun 22, 2004

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• #21

follow this and post pictures in 2-3 weeks. we'll be waiting impatiently.

If it helps you to understand my normal diet, I took a picture of what I'll be eating later today. Of course I will be eating around the mold, but otherwise it tastes fine.

Last night, I did eat some Asian cookies that expired about five years ago. They did taste a bit stale to me.

Ken g6

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My plan is, to buy a long size of Italian bread, some deli meats with some mustard and sandwich peppers (the ones bathed in vinegar.)

Is this a complete list of your sandwich ingredients? If so, I suggest the following:

1. Make the sandwich without peppers. Cut it up just like you planned. At work, put all the pieces except the first in the freezer.
2. Also, pack a peck of pickled peppers and take them to the office.
3. Each lunch, pull out the sandwich from the fridge, and put one from the freezer in the fridge to defrost.
4. Put the peppers on just before you eat.

I personally don't mind frozen or refrigerated bread at all. Freezing meat works fine too. Veggies don't work so well, though, so that's why I left the peppers out.

@madoka, please put a NSFL warning on that, unless you want us all to skip lunch! D:

Jun 19, 2004

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Take the blue pill and strap your helmet on.

• #25

How long does it take you to make a sandwich?

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