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• How long does an unopened package of crackers last? The precise answer depends to a large extent on storage conditions -to maximize the shelf life of crackers (including saltines, water crackers, rice crackers, oyster crackers and animal crackers) store in a cool, dry area.
• Properly stored, an unopened package of crackers will generally stay at best quality for about 6 to 9 months.
• Are unopened crackers safe to use after the 'expiration' date on the package? Yes, provided they are properly stored and the package is undamaged - commercially packaged crackers will typically carry a ' Best By,' 'Best if Used By,' 'Best Before', or 'Best When Used By' date but this is not a safety date, it is the manufacturer's estimate of how long the crackers will remain at peak quality.
• Storage time shown is for best quality only - after that, the crackers' texture, color or flavor may change, but in most cases, they will still be safe to consume if they have been stored properly, the package is undamaged, and there are no signs of spoilage (see below).
• How can you tell if crackers are bad or spoiled? The best way is to smell and look at the crackers: if crackers develop an off odor, flavor or appearance, or if mold appears, they should be discarded.

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So I've got this sweet 'Surplus Grocery' spot, near me, a 'preppers' paradise, and about a year and a half ago I nabbed 3 boxes of Saltine Crackersfor $1 (a buck).....

The crackers are edible and the expiration date is (4) months away, but there is NO cracker CRUNCH! It's missing that satisfying hard texture that resounds through your head when chewed. I am unsure of how they became stale and un-fresh; the plastic packaging appeared sealed and intact.

So last year I finished off one box. This year I hadnt really bothered the other two boxes (the kind that have four long narrow packs of crackersinside the box)...

1. A saltine or soda cracker is a thin, usually square cracker made from white flour, yeast, and baking soda, with most varieties lightly sprinkled with coarse salt.It has perforations over its surface, as well as a distinctively dry and crisp texture. Some familiar brand names of saltine crackers.
2. Make peanut butter crackers by evenly spreading about 1½ teaspoon on one side of a saltine cracker then top with another saltine cracker. Repeat until complete. Place peanut butter cracker into the melted chocolate, using a fork flip over, gently lift out and let excess chocolate drip off.
3. How many saltine crackers equal 2 cups of crushed saltine crackers? Approximately 44 crackers or 1 package from a 1 pound ½ ounce box will equal 2 cups of crushed crackers. Can I substitute oil for butter in baking? Yes, ½ cup oil is equal to 10 tablespoons melted butter. What size eggs are used in Homemade Gourmet® recipes?

Then recently I went to eat some from a breaker pack in one of those remaining two boxes....
I suppose they were just slightly 'expired' (by the MFG Standards anyways) at the time of purchase....
And eating them wasnt even possible (despite having toppings worth roughing it for all ready to go), as they tasted like... paint.
Not quite as bad as oil based paint, at least, nor quite like epoxy paint (which I surmise has no taste as its such a perfectly hard material), butdefinitely like 3 day dried latex acrylic paint.
So naturally I decided to dump each breaker pack into the fire, as the cats surely wouldnt walk within five feet of them...
And they were unfit for the compost setup as they have salt...
And I'll tell ya, they would probably make for halfway decent firestarter kindling, as you'd think I had just dumped shards of pine particle board onthe fire when I poured the 7 breaker packs into it rather quick like...
So naturally I got to wondering, maybe that's exactly how dried latex paint would burn...
Meaning of course I went and grabbed a big 'slap' of dried latex paint and threw it in there (the sort of patch you peel out of a paint bucket afterits fully dried for a few days, and then left to dry in the sun for a few more)...
I snip you not, I seriously had this most perfect specimen of latex paint on hand for this most ultimately serious example of a controlled scienceexperiment ever contemplated...
So I threw it in there...
Could still see many crackers not yet burnt because they didnt get far enough in there...
And the patch of latex paint in the fire next to the crackers (no pun intended), had the most astounding results...
It burned both 'faster' and 'slower' than the cracker did!
It managed to do this simultaneously (which is without a doubt a truly indisputable marvel of all known and fictional science theory)...

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But after many minutes of advanced enhanced exotic calculations, and my nose, without any doubt whatsoever roughly the same amount of energy expelledfrom the patch of dried latex paint as would have roughly the same dried mass of saltine crackers (that smelled like three day old dried latex paint)would have...
AND, the smell of the fire didnt change at all from one moment before the latex paint was added (while the crackers were still going at it), andafter!!!

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