What's in Your Fridge?

[Grand Design]

Fridge Porn is great.



You are what you eat.

Who the Hell are you?

[climbjtree]

Natty Light, huh?

[Grand Design]

The Nat is a buffer between the stronger brews in football season.  I think there's a single Bass left which will now be imbibed.

[Signe]

Triscuits in the fridge?  Do you have bugs or something?  Or do you just like cold crackers?

[Grand Design]

Ideally, you want the cheese and crackers to be the same temperature.  That is dill Havarti and garlic Triscuits - yum.  And, yes, I live in a sub-tropical area where insects are both a daily battle and a culinary delicacy.

I expected more fridge porn and less scrutiny of my diet, but thems the breaks, I s'pose.

[rattran]

No pictures, but I currently have Danish blue cheese, soy sauce, chili garlic rooster sauce, blackberries, 3 tortillas, a pot of mustard, half a pound of peccorino romano, and a pint of half and half. And 3 (now 2) Duck-Rabbit brewery Brown Ales.

 

[Grand Design]

That sounds like a mean sandwich.

[MuffinMan]

Bedroom fridge 

[Signe]

A lush with heartburn! 

Grand Design has tidiest fridge I've ever seen.  Sorry about your bugs!  You need to pick up orange juice, by the way.

I have about a half pound of left over chuck roast.  Lots of apples.  Gueyere, Cheddar, Locatelli, Romano, Finlandia Swiss and sharp Provolone cheeses.  Some Genoa salami. A pound of pork tenderloin for tomorrow's dinner.  Seltzer.  Swiss Chard, broccoli rabe, spinach, various sorts of peppers, green beans.  The usual milk, eggs, butter, sour cream, various herbs, etc.  Righ's Victory Festbier and ginger beer.  Freezer has pork chops & ribs, chicken titties, frozen Korma & curry, frozen fried clams, lemon water ice, frozen bread dough, and some cloth cat toys that I dip in water and freeze for kitty play time.  Oh, and an eye mask to soothe my achy breaky eyes.

And that's my fridge.  The End. 

[Bunk]

This looks fun...

Sorry if it's a huge pic.



A few notes - two of the cartons of milk and two of the bottles of whipped cream are old and need to be chucked. Also, I am almost out of maple syrup.

Why the hell do I have so much whipped cream?

[Viin]

What's up with the liters instead of cans?

[schild]

Leftovers? Fuck a leftover. Pic coming later. Caution: One of the roommates has a "sauce" problem.

[Bunk]

What's up with the liters instead of cans?

Most of the Coke is left by friends visiting. They are somewhat poor my friends, and Coke is much cheaper in two litres than in cans. Also, cans usually end up in the crisper, cause there sure as hell aren't any veggies in there.

[FatuousTwat]

I have so much shit in there, I'm sure I can't name it all. Milk, juice(cranberry, limeade), condiments, lunchmeat, cheese, salad dressing, some leftover Suddenly Salad, a leftover cheeseburger patty, jam, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, pomegranate tea, tomato, pepper, onion, lettuce, iced tea. Freezer has hamburger, chicken breasts, shrimp, fish, canned juice (pinapple starfruit Hawaiians Own), some frozen pizzas, tortellini, ravioli. I think that is it.

The second fridge in the garage contains my collection of soda (I think I have 10 different 12-packs... Pepsi, Cherry Pepsi, 7-UP, Orange Mt. Dew, Mt. Dew, Squirt, Ginger Ale, Root Beer, Cream Soda, Orange Soda).

I'd like to mention that I am glad I'm not seeing any peanut butter in anyone's fridge, I know some people who do that and it bothers me.

[Signe]

Bunk, do you have any actual food in your fridge?

[Grand Design]

I see Golden Dragon Oyster Sauce.  That must count as food and not beverage.  It can't be a condiment because it would fuck up anything you put it on.

[K9]

That can-dispening rack thing is pretty cool, never seen one of those before.

I'll post a pic when I get home.

[schild]

I'd like to mention that I am glad I'm not seeing any peanut butter in anyone's fridge, I know some people who do that and it bothers me.

I get all sorts of bothered when people put fucking hot sauce in the fridge. Peanut butter I can "get" if they really just want it cold. Cold creamy peanut butter makes for a great sandwich, but like, people who think it needs to be in the fridge to stay "fresh" or something can join the "hot sauce goes in the fridge" people on the first bus to the camps.

[Grand Design]

I'll have to take a pic of my various hot sauces later.  And they are left on the counter to age.  An old bottle of hot sauce is a nice find - you know it will be extra thick and spicy.

[Bunk]

Bunk, do you have any actual food in your fridge?

Hmm, um, there's a container of dolmades, a chorizo sausage that may be bad by now, and eggs count as food. Generally, most of my meat is in the freezer, because I don't eat it fast enough to keep in the fridge. I keep vegies like onions and peppers, but anything that would be a main course veggie uses gets used the day its bought.

[schild]

I'll have to take a pic of my various hot sauces later.  And they are left on the counter to age.  An old bottle of hot sauce is a nice find - you know it will be extra thick and spicy.

Hot sauce doesn't last long around me. I sort of over use them. No one makes food spicy enough anymore. Speaking of, I need to find me a Burmese restaurant in Austin.

[trias_e]

Can we hijack this thread and turn it into a hot sauce thread?  I need recommendations.  I like hot to insanely hot.

[Signe]

Bunk, do you have any actual food in your fridge?

Hmm, um, there's a container of dolmades, a chorizo sausage that may be bad by now, and eggs count as food. Generally, most of my meat is in the freezer, because I don't eat it fast enough to keep in the fridge. I keep vegies like onions and peppers, but anything that would be a main course veggie uses gets used the day its bought.

Oh good.  I was worried.  I forgot I had a container of lamb stew I made last week in the freezer.  I was thinking maybe I'd mail it to you.

[Sky]

Bunk, do you have any actual food in your fridge?

Keeping food in the fridge is so odd. It's fresh in the supermarket's fridge, they pay to keep it fresh, if it gets nasty, they throw it out!

The fiancee keeps some yogurt and cheese in mine, but there's only beer, water, soda and a few sauces and condiments otherwise. She's also got some frozen microwave food, but I only keep cold packs and frozen veggies in the freeze (edit: oh yeah, and a deer tenderloin the neighbor gave me). Definitely no freezer pics, she cleaned it out just after I moved in and I promptly put some sodas in there to chill and they exploded all over her nice cleaning job...

I got into the habit of shopping fresh a long time ago, but it drives my fiancee crazy. I stop at the store on the way home pretty much every day, no idea what I'm going to make until I get there and see what looks good.

[Cyrrex]

I'd like to mention that I am glad I'm not seeing any peanut butter in anyone's fridge, I know some people who do that and it bothers me.

I get all sorts of bothered when people put fucking hot sauce in the fridge. Peanut butter I can "get" if they really just want it cold. Cold creamy peanut butter makes for a great sandwich, but like, people who think it needs to be in the fridge to stay "fresh" or something can join the "hot sauce goes in the fridge" people on the first bus to the camps.

I suppose I need a ticket for that bus...it's not that I wouldn't want to keep sauce at room temperature (tastes better, to be sure), but rather that I'd have a fear of keeping any tomato-based product out of the fridge.  It really doesn't spoil, or are you simply eating it so fucking fast that it doesn't have time to do so?  What about salsas and other sauces that have other veggie bits in them?  No way I'd store them out of the fridge once opened.

[Nebu]

All I can say is ... you guys own some cheap ass refrigerators. 

[apocrypha]

Can we hijack this thread and turn it into a hot sauce thread?  I need recommendations.  I like hot to insanely hot.

Have you tried Dave's Insanity Sauce? I've also become partial to Chinese chilli bean paste, can get some great ones in my local Asian supermarkets.

All I can say is ... you guys own some cheap ass refrigerators. 

But aren't they all nice and clean? Was gonna take a pic of ours but I'm ashamed of how grimy it is 

[trias_e]

Have you tried Dave's Insanity Sauce? I've also become partial to Chinese chilli bean paste, can get some great ones in my local Asian supermarkets.

Dave's insanity sauce is great stuff.  Definitely my favorite of the uber-hot variety that I've tried.

[voodoolily]

Bunk has canned unicorn! 

This is an old meme that swept the food blogger community awhile back.

[Johny Cee]

Right now,  I have a 2 gallon jug of homebrew mead in my fridge from a buddy waaaay into a homebrewing kick.  Actually pretty tasty,  but the stuff was 12% alcohol the last time the guy tested it so I'm rationing to half a glass a night if I have any.

[Grand Design]

Hot sauce doesn't last long around me. I sort of over use them. No one makes food spicy enough anymore.

I rarely ever use salt on food, since hot sauce provides salinity and spice.  I like to keep a variety and mix things up, but regular Tabasco is the finest sauce made.  For wings and marinating, its Crystal - cheap, abundant and almost spicy enough.  Yesterday, I tried Louisiana Wing Sauce to make some quick wings (no marinating, no grilling - right into the oven,) and they were surprisingly good and damned spicy. 

Can we hijack this thread and turn it into a hot sauce thread?  I need recommendations.  I like hot to insanely hot.

No.  I expect more fridge porn, you bastards.  I posted this a while back, but this unholy concoction was responsible for several days of intestinal distress.  The fourth sauce on that page was the guilty party.  To give you an idea - regular Tabasco, which is quite spicy, ranges from 2,500 to 5,000 Scoville units.  That devil sauce is 8,910.

[schild]

If you think Louisiana Wing Sauce is spicy, you and I are in different leagues of spicy It's terribly mild. I do agree with the spirit of the post though. We should make a hot sauce thread though. ^_^

[Grand Design]

Well, I also threw paprika, cayenne, chili and black pepper on them.  They turned out much spicier than I thought they would, given the lack of marinating, but by no means ungodly hot. 

[schild]

You can get hot sauces now that are made with the ghost chili. They're...horrible. Habanero based hot sauces are kinda my baseline. I adore tabasco on just about everything, but I prefer things hotter. The two I have in my cupboard right now are probably 8-10k scovilles but if I had constant access to things a little hotter (11-13k) I'd probably put it on shit fairly often.

I have access to this line at a restaurant near me and it's not especially hot but the habanero is nice and they manage to be on the sweeter side of spicy.

The fruit based Dave's stuff is hotter than most sweet ones, but they're pretty great.

My favorite "mild" hot sauce is Bee Sting. Well, it's my favorite to put on top of something hotter. It has a fantastic honey flavor with a bit of bite.

There's so many good hot sauces it's hard to keep track. Also, there's some really terrible one. The hot sauce industry has seen some folks trying some weird shit lately. I need to get into the city more during the day on weekdays to get myself more stuff from Tears of Joy (store on 6th street that's just hot sauces).

El Yucateco just tastes like chemicals to me :(

[voodoolily]

I think Yucateco is sweet-hot, great for dipping pickled chiles into.

Secret Aardvark is my new fave.