what is that horrible smell

see that is why it's not worth it to buy in bulk

Yes. So we learned.

Did you not refrigerate it? I've had soy sauce that was still good after a few years that I only threw out because the bottle got too messed up.

No. You don't really have to refrigerate soy sauce and the giant can of it didn't fit in the fridge anyway. But I mean, you don't really have to refrigerate soy sauce if you're going to use it pretty quickly. I'm thinking we had this can for more than a year.

You would think all that salt would preserve it for years.

Huh, it never occurred to me that soy could go bad. Seemed like, I dunno, vegemite...like a "forever" condiment, lol.

EVERYTHING I KNOW IS WRONG *cries*

I refrigerate my soy sauce, including the big jugs. That's what the crisper drawer is for - refrigerating bulk products.

I thought that was for beer.

The second, smaller fridge is for beer!

crisper is for beer and apples
no one needs that much soy sauce in their fridge at any given time unless that fridge is inside of a restaurant

Wrong. I need that much soy sauce.

Also: a gallon of sweet chili sauce.

what is that horrible smell

Also: multiple bottles of Srirachia.

And tubs of pre-peeled garlic (which I freeze).

God bless the Asian market where I buy those bulk items, and of course God bless pre-peeled garlic.

you must make the most interesting ice creams

You keep multiple bottles of Sriracha in the fridge?

I thought that was for beer.

― William (C), Monday, December 5, 2011 11:30 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

OTM

Although Jeff has been lobbying for a second smaller beer fridge for years.

Jeff OTM, the beer fridge will change your life

You keep multiple bottles of Sriracha in the fridge?

Yes, of course.

wtf

sriracha doesn't need to be kept in the fridge fyi

I would be nice to put vegetables in the crisper drawers, I suppose.

I'm still trying to deal with this. Jesse, why do you even have multiple bottles of Sriracha? How many bottles are we talking about?

In the bathroom at my current workplace, there is a dispenser of some sort of fragrance. This stuff deserves to be outlawed under treaties against chemical warfare.

William, having know Jesse as long and as well as I have, I can say that multiple bottles of refrigerated Siracha is probably the least strange of his consumption/food storage/storage of nonfood items in places where there is usually only food habits.

I keep a bottle of sriracha in my toilet tank

I had a friend of college whose feet smelled so bad he often got unsuspecting people to ask what that horrible smell was BEFORE he even took his shoes off

your friend should stop wrapping his feet in your other friends brown sheets

lol

The fatal flaw of these:

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I keep multiple bottles of Srirachia b/c I like Srirachia and I don't like running out of it.

I do my Asian foods shopping at an Asian supermarket that is walking distance from my previous apartment, but miles from my current one. Soy sauce, sweet chili sauce, curry paste, straw mushrooms, and Srirachia are ridiculously cheap there, and they are things I use a lot of, so I stock up.

Srirachia, like soy sauce, doesn't need to be refrigerated if used in a reasonable period, but like we learned ITT re soy sauce, it can eventually go bad. (I was at a friend's house where she pulled from the pantry some Srirachia that was rust-colored and very watery. She didn't realize that it wasn't supposed to look like that b/c it had gradually turned that way over the years she had it. It might not have been toxic, but it was definitely *off*.)

It'll go dark after a long time at any temperature. I gave my parents a bottle several years ago and it was dark as barbecue sauce before the old coots trusted it enough to dig it out of the back of the fridge to try it. Surprise! They liked it.

Interesting. Do you think it's just due to oxidation, like when a cut apple turns brown?

I'm sure that's it. I'd buy them a new bottle, but they'd fuss at me for wasting money.

Crazy coworkers are forever bringing in soups & casseroles to kiss-ass the managers...crockpots are on the other side of my cubicle.

Today = broccoli cauliflower soup, I hate both of these vegetables so much

HELP ME I AM IN HELL

if one of my employees brought me a crock pot full of soup, I would make them eat some of it in front of me to make sure it wasn't poisoned

it's pretty much every day...some are good but most of the time it's like, "Um you know that we have homes & food of our own, right?"

The worst was the day of "seafood stew"...stunk the whole area out, I felt nauseous all day

what if yr employee had already consumed the antidote xp

well then, fairplay to that employee and I hope they enjoy the stress and ulcers that go with my position

if one of my employees brought me a crock pot full of soup, I would make them eat some of it in front of me to make sure it wasn't poisoned

haha! i totally do this when i bring food to students. i always eat it in front of them and make a joke about it not being poisoned.

also broccoli soup should be forbidden in office atmosphere -- waaaay too reeky

I eat broccoli every week and have never known it to be reeky

if one of my employees brought me a crock pot full of soup, I would make them eat some of it in front of me to make sure it wasn't poisoned

nevar forget Gus Fring and Don Eladio

all those cruciferous vegetables start to give off sulfurous odors after they've cooked x amt of time -- I try to never prepare enough broccoli or cabbage to have leftovers.

exactly
overcooked broccolis are extremely powerfully reeky
freshly lightly cooked broccolis are tasty (not as tasty as they are raw though imo)

Nope, sorry, they still smell bad and taste bad when lightly cooked.

Steaming brocolli should be mandatory by law.
Cabbage leftovers are not too bad if they're placed in the fridge asap (aftter they've cooled down a bit).

broccoli is poison & should be outlawed, cooked or raw. Nation of VGrrl frowns on it.

wait wait wait a poster whose display name includes 'Vegemite' is trying to argue that broccoli is stinky? ?_?

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my sister used to cook broccoli daily and it stank to shit. never want to smell that putrid barf again.

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