Questions about the Use By & Best Before poster

What’s on the Use By & Best Before poster?

Use by — safety against Best before — quality, side by side. Use by — safety: Do not eat after this date; Use by — safety: On perishable, high-risk foods; Use by — safety: Meat, fish, dairy, prepared salads; Use by — safety: Cannot be judged by look or smell; Use by — safety: Freezing before the date extends it; Best before — quality: Safe after, but may be poorer; Best before — quality: On shelf-stable foods; Best before — quality: Tins, pasta, biscuits, frozen goods; Best before — quality: Judge by look, smell and taste; Best before — quality: Often good for months after; Most food waste comes from treating best before as if it were use by. They are legall…. Eggs carry a best-before date. The float test is a better indicator of whether one is still good.

Who is the Use By & Best Before poster for?

Use By & Best Before belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning food safety can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Use By & Best Before poster?

Use by is safety. Best before is quality. Only one of them can make you ill. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Use By & Best Before belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Use By & Best Before?

Barbecue Safety, Preserving Safely and Cleaning sit alongside Use By & Best Before in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Barbecue SafetyPreserving SafelyCleaning

Is the Use By & Best Before poster free to download and print?

Yes. Use By & Best Before downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kitchen section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Use By & Best Before poster print at?

Use By & Best Before is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Use By & Best Before loses nothing.Printing guide