# Cooking lesson learned! Cooked pasta noodles put in a sealed bag in the fridge go bad in few days.

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**Created:** [September 6, 2015, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-lesson-learned-cooked-pasta-noodles-put-in-a-sealed-bag-in-the-fridge-go-bad-in-few-days/730133 "2015-09-06T01:59:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-lesson-learned-cooked-pasta-noodles-put-in-a-sealed-bag-in-the-fridge-go-bad-in-few-days/730133/1 "2015-09-06T01:59:20Z")

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Cooked a bunch of delicious thick rotini noodles and put them in bag in the fridge (not the freezer). Used a few on the 2nd and third day and they were OK. Now at a week they looked and smelled OK (did not taste them) so I threw into a salad then blended them with other ingredients and tossed it. They went from being, firm delicious noodles to these easily shredded, waxy, pasty … awful things. I spent 20 tedious minutes picking them (now in pieces) back out of the salad.

Live and learn. Cooked pasta needs to be used fairly quickly.