Food safety question.

[sara76]

On July 5 I stewed some blueberries in boiling water for about 15 minutes to make a purée for the babe. I saved the blueberry water that I drained. Do you think it is still good to use tomorrow to make my oatmeal with? H said its expired. I think it's fine.

[aegis2005]

I wouldn't use it. I tend to error on the side of cautious though, I guess that's my 8 years working in a restaurant with owners that were paranoid about food safety.

[lauren9317]

I might not know, because I've never heard of or thought of saving water like that. But did you keep it in the fridge? Or is it just out on the counter? (Sorry if these are dumb questions!) If it was in the fridge, I don't see why there would be any problems.

[sara76]

Yes it's been refrigerated. I've never done it before either but I just don't like to throw things away sometimes. I'm not going to use it but I thought maybe it's ok because it's just water. I'm too paranoid to use it though and don't want to ruin perfectly good oatmeal

[lauren9317]

Yeah I guess it's no big loss to throw it out although I do think it's a cool idea-- blueberry infused water sounds good