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Meat dried, and usually salted and smoked. Commercially dried keeps a year; homemade gets sixty days, and the gap is a warning about how thoroughly it has to be dried.
How long it keeps
Unopened, this keeps 12 months — which is what puts it on the long shelf.
| As sold | Unopened, in the cupboard | Once opened |
|---|---|---|
| commercially dried | 12 months | 2–3 months — refrigerated |
| homemade | 1–2 months | — |
Counted from the day you bought it and the date on the package. Figures are the USDA FSIS FoodKeeper table's, for unopened storage at room temperature; FoodKeeper counts a month as 30 days.
The table was not pulled from USDA — fsis.usda.gov answers 403 to non-browser clients from this machine — so it came from a mirror of the data.gov dataset and its vintage is unverified. Treat a single figure as indicative, not as a use-by date.
Related
- Keeps 60 days or more — the whole cupboard list, by aisle.
- Ingredients — the wider shelf.
- Same aisle — Meat — Shelf Stable Foods: Canned meat · Ham · Bacon.