People brought way too much coffee to a work thing and I took it home. Is there any risk, other that than that it will taste bad, to keeping it for a week or two?
Check if it’s mouldy or smells funny and you should be fine. This is not health advice nor flavour advice, I drink 3 day old coffee left in the pot in the summer.
Maniac.
Yeah what the fuck If I leave a coffee cup out for 3 days it gets a layee of mold
If its black with no creamer added it should make it a week easily, although this partially depends on how long it was left sitting out before being placed in the fridge.
If it has milk/sugar/cream already in it and was left out all day I don’t think I would save it personally.
If its black and was left out all day I would allow for ~7 days in the fridge, but would be looking it over carefully each day before drinking.
You can always freeze a portion of it. It should stay good for years frozen although it will lose flavor overtime. In the fridge I would say no longer than a week YMMV.
Freeze into ice cubes to use in place of regular ice in iced coffee
This is the way. I hate watery coffee so in summer I have a tray of coffee cubes ready.
No amount of time. Not in that it’ll spoil, just in that it’ll taste gross reheated.
If you are just worried about potable, quite a long time. We make a pot every day, but some days we don’t really get to it and there is half a pot remaining. We’ll just drink the rest the next day.
Refrigerated, it will miss likely last a couple weeks. If it has sugar or milk in it, it will be much less. Also, if the container has been drank from directly.
I think you should test a sample from the carton 3 times a day and record your results.
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Not enough data OP. I demand six tests a day.
Hmm at some point mold is likely to form, and you won’t be able to see it. Unfortunately I don’t know how long that timeline is. With basic food safety training my best guess is that it’s safe for 3-7 days, and personally I’d trust it for 2-3 weeks as long as it’s now constantly refrigerated
it won’t taste good, but it won’t be bad for a week, assuming it’s kept cold and not at room temp for prolonged period.
after that it will get nasty.
Maybe you should crosspost the question to !coffee@lemmy.world
Snob answer: coffee is only good 20 minutes after it’s brewed, assuming you’ve brewed it 20 minutes after it was ground.
Practical answer: I’d probably dump it at the end of the day, it’s pretty stale by then.
It’s water soaked in beans. It’s not worth keeping.
It’s the only water I drink. At most, I drink two or three bottles of water a year but I drink about 6 big cups of coffee a day so there’s my only water intake.
Please drink some water.
Why?
Even if that coffee is black and without sugar, that’s gotta be rough on your body and your teeth!
If you aren’t one of those who try to taste subtle hints of berry, chicory and dock in your coffee and just enjoy it, boil it if possible assuming it’s black to psudo-pasteurize it, let it cool again a bit, keep it sealed in the fridge the best you can.
Cold brew stays good for about a week for me, brewed coffee has gone a few weeks when I took two of those Starbucks cartons home from a event.
Pike place still kicks when reboiled.
My guess is that the caffeine content would be lower, and thus not worth reheating for?
What does it have in it? If its plain coffee, no milk etc, you could freeze it in ice blocks. Reheat it in the microwave to revive, as you need, or mix in iced coffee. The water has been boiled to be used, so theres going to be less bacteria in the water. So it should sit for a bit without going too bad. Personally I’d freeze whatever you can’t use within 3 days, to be safe.
They yankee heritage food way of dealing with leftover coffee prior to the love affair with iced coffee was to use coffee in place of water in making a coffee gelatin dessert, coffee jello if we use a brand name.
Forever, next question please
