I saw this earlier and do have an unopened bag that fits the description in my refrigerator, that I will further verify tomorrow. It seems like this is getting to be a weekly occurence with either E-coli, listeria, or some other bacteria hitting our food items.

Ugh. Thanks!

I had a bag of 365 carrots, purchase date unsure, opened and I’m still alive, but I discarded the rest of the bag anyway.

Bought several carrots recently but individual, not bagged. Already used some for stew and all was fine.

Fortunately, the ones in our fridge right now were purchased at a later date than the sell/use by dates listed.

And I understand listeria has been on the rise because of longer storage times for fresh foods, since it can grow and multiply well beyond a safe level in normal refrigeration temp.s.

I am not sure if things are worse, or if they are just testing more????

I did catch a report of them before I had a chance to look, though I don't know if I would have internalized it without John's post so thanks again. I do have some CalOrganics, and, as Laceyvail said, they last a long time, which, for me, is the point. They're in case I want to make Awesome Chicken and am out of bunch carrots. They're fine. And from before the recall. :) I make no claims about vitamin content in peeled carrots in cold storage...

Re worse, I don't think a regularly cleaned fridge is worse than a root cellar...

Oh, I wrote in the other thread, but I had some that had to be tossed. It was amazing to me how one company had so many brands - yet another food category tightly controlled by one player. The large market position contributes to the sense of a more widespread impact.

I just got an email from Whole Foods alerting me to a recall of the carrots I bought from them. and giving me lot numbers to check. That is nice!

I read the recalls and rarely have the product in my pantry or refrigerator. This time I did. An unopened bag of the carrots that went into garbage pail. They may have been fine but I wasn't taking any chances. I need a couple of carrots for one of my Thanksgiving dishes, think I will go to a local farmers market and ask the vendor if he grew the things at his booth himself. It may be a while before I pick up bagged produce grown in Bakersfield. I know its sad for the grower but I'd be more sad if I made someone sick - or myself sick. I like to snack on raw carrots, dodged a bullet?

Maybe that explains why there were no carrots at Costco last week?

When the local seasonal farm produce shuts down for the season, I generally turn to carrots as a main part of our winter diet. We eat carrots almost every day in the winter, in some form or another. So that time of year has come again and I went out to buy the first big bag of carrots and there were none.

They guy working the produce said that the carrots have recently been spotty and irrelgular in the shipments that they are getting. I dont think I have ever not been able to buy carrots at Costco.

That may explain it.

So many food recalls lately!!!

We rarely ever buy deli meats but had a hankering for something different and were surprised the deli case was so very empty! We shop at Wegmans and I think maybe they sold a lot of Boars Head that is now all gone.

Hope the carrot situation gets straightened out . I never thought I could love carrots, but I have found new ways to use them and they are now a staple. I think that for many people they are those awful frozen or canned little carrot slices or those awful dried up "baby carrots". I have found ways to elevate them to top tier status. I understand when people dismiss them. They can be wonderful, but usually they arent the way they are most commonly served.

Costco called me on Sunday to let me know I may have purchased Grimmway Cal-Organic carrots with a best buy date of sept 30. Mine have a later date but that would explain Costco having a temporary carrot shortage.

I am impressed at the retailers who are reaching out to their customers on this.

Love carrots!

We should resume the Cook-A-Long threads! We could start with carrots. All our favorite ways to use each thread’s featured ingredient. Yea/nay?

Maybe yea-ish? There is a level of pressure implied by the name. How about something like dish of the week? Or Favorite Recipe For…

My new favorte for carrots I posted last year. In the Middle East it would be called a ”salad”, in the way hummus is. Similar bumpier than puree texture. Cooked. Great on pita. Garlic, cumin, honey… SO good!

I don’t think I participated in the old Cookalongs enough to feel pressure, I just read them. What was the pressure?

I was thinking just a loose, ambling, ungoverned chat about “_______ of the week”. ______ being whatever whoever wants. Whoever could be whoever puts up their hand in this week‘s thread to start next week’s thread, but one cannot be whoever for consecutive weeks, the baton has to be passed around, dropped, twirled, regained. If whoever wants to take us back to basics and make ______ ”potatoes”, fine. If ______ is ”with liqueurs”, fine. If _____ is ”on a boat”, fine. If ______ is ”for children/dogs/in-laws/zombies”, fine. Some _____ will wither and fade, other _____ will still be going many weeks later, out lasting later-started ______.

Oh, I just meant the title! An open share kind of title seems more inviting.

Your format sounds good to me. I warn you, however, I draw the line at zombies! Teaching rats to eat soup is one thing, but when human brains are on the menu, I'm out…

I see what you are saying about ’Cook along’ being in the title. It might imply something unintended?

Maybe a more inviting title could be - The Ingredient of the week is…

The cookalong threads were fun.

@JoanM that would be like our very own "Iron Chef"!

The cookalongs were fun. I didn’t always contribute and I didn’t always cook but I always read. I still refernce back to a few recipes here and there, or go to look for recipes when I recall an ingredient having been used. Honestly I can’t imagine why anyone would feel pressure about it, there wasn”t then and there shouldn’t be now.

Alas, I don’t know that we have enough regular posters. It was a different time back then, for better or for worse, but it wss a lot more active. But I’d be willing to try!

It may just be my impression because of the times. When I first joined CF there were all kinds of power struggles and strife going on under the surface, and people sharpening their (verbal) knives on those who dared step syncopated. There were Rules-- and Rulers. I stayed away a lot, but was way behind the times on kitchen knowledge and this was the best resource for answers, so kept coming back. That was a time when GW was a top hit on search, and large volumes of users coming in and out. In two subsequest sales, with crazymaking format changes, we lost a lot of stalwarts. The current owners find enough value to maintain these boards, but they're not promoted, and are actually hard to find on search engines. From that point of view, I wouldn't like to see people put off. Ingredient of the week sounds cozy, because it could be the star or a walk on. Like carrots could be my ME all carrot salad, or an important underling in a beef stew.

threw away an unopened bag of carrots :(

Yeah so back to carrots, I have a dated bag of baby carrots that were after the timeframe, and a 5 lb bag of carrots with no date. My best guess was I bought them after the affected time period, but now I'm getting emails from WF saying I may have recalled product. We've gone through like half the bag without incident so I'm not sure what I'll do.

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I don't post here very often anymore but I come here everyday to read. I would enjoy a series of threads featuring a single ingredient. For example, I'd love to know how @jehanne hansen cooks with carrots as well as everyone else. They're inexpensive and (usually) readily available.

Since we'll all have brand new bags of carrots - other than the wild & crazy living dangerously sorts like FOAS - it would make sense to start with Bugs Bunny's favorite ingredient.

I’m in too… could be fun. I remember reading the Cookalongs but never participated.

Not carrot related, but I can’t find ”cooking” on my list of forums to start a thread. I’ve seen this before, anyone know the workaround?

And while we’re at it, my question is about star anise. If a recipe calls for ”two petals from one pod” would you interpret that as break off two points of the star?

FOAS, to find the forum, I use my browser history. Once in awhile the search function. here's the URL for this thread. If you can find a thread (easier than the index), you can tap the Cooking button at the top to get back to the index: https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/6473765/recalled-carrots#n=27

I thought the same thing about the Anise, though it's weird not to say teo seeds at that point,

Thanks plllog! My issue is not finding this forum to read, it’s finding it to post a new thread.

Make sure your are in the cooking forum BEFORE posting. Then start your post. It should show up automatically.

I am constantly amazed at the DiFFERENT issues we all have regarding posting, getting into or reading our Cooking forum.

For example Sherry mentions to start a post from the open Cooking forum and it will come up automatically. I always start from being in the Cooking forum and it never comes up automatically. Of course I presume it’s all our different networking devices and hosting platforms.

So FOAS by your screenshot I presume that’s all that came up when you pressed All Topics. I can’t help with advice except to say that when I have issues they tend to go away after a few days. Weird.

I have to be in HD Conversations to post there.

I’m here in CF and can’t post a new thread here. But I appreciate the suggestion. I’ve also tried starting in both houzz and gardenweb. No go.

Neely, yes, I’ll agree that problems tend to go away on their own. 🤞

If I did not like the people, I would hate this site and delete.

By the way, I do not usevthe app anywhere. It does not work. I just bookmark the site.

If you are in the cooking forum, go to the top of the post and hit the little cooking oval on the left. It should take you to a place where "Start a discussion" is at the top.

I cannot create a post here from my phone using the mobile app. If I choose “request desktop site“ then I can. Weird.

In my phone or tablet, I use the Brave browser, gardenweb.com etc. as above, and it opens to the same screen as my computer, both with the start a discussion box.

FOAS you are not alone in being unable to start a new topic. I am unable to as well. I get as far as Select Topic and I used to go down to a 2nd list of topics where I would find Cooking select and then post. Today the 2nd list is not there. I am doing this on my Iphone. I'll try again later on the IPad.