the oldest condiment, might be a salad pakette about a year old, Lee
"Ema Nymton" > wrote in message
...
> On 8/31/2011 3:36 PM, Pico Rico wrote:
>>> A jar of olive salad. The oldest was a jar of Liquid Smoke, but it
>>> disappeared.
>>>
>>> Becca
>> well, HOW old?
>
> The olive salad is about a year old, maybe more.
>
> Becca

bear in mind those date are to protect the seller and maker, they have no
real relationship to how long you can use a product, Lee
"Michael OConnor" > wrote in message
...

> I've got salad dressing, not as old as your stuff, but about 3 years
> old. Bottled Caesar, and bottled 3 cheese ranch. I don't want to use
> them because they are so old, and I don't want to throw them out. So
> they just sit there. I started making my own vinagrettes, so didn't
> use them.

I remember about 15 years ago I was at my parents house and went thru
their refrigerator and noticed they had bottles of salad dressing in
there that had expired ten years before. Totally grossed me out.

The oldest food item I have in my fridge is a bottle of lemon juice.
The expiration date on it says 2009 but I've been using it
sporadically and it still tastes fine. I guess because of the acidic
nature it will last a long, long time.

Kalmia wrote:
> I'll start: I've had a bottle of chili pepper wine on the bottom door
> shelf since........oh,' bout 2003. It is impossible to drink and I
> keep forgetting to drop a bit into my hot dishes. I hate giving it
> fridge space, but can't bring myself to pour into the drain. It might
> eat my pipes. : ))

Erm, a HUGE slab of chocolate. And I sure HOPE it's edible.

--
Jean B.

Lucille wrote:
> On Aug 31, 2:15 pm, Kalmia > wrote:
>> I'll start: I've had a bottle of chili pepper wine on the bottom door
>> shelf since........oh,' bout 2003. It is impossible to drink and I
>> keep forgetting to drop a bit into my hot dishes. I hate giving it
>> fridge space, but can't bring myself to pour into the drain. It might
>> eat my pipes. : ))
>
> Well I just finished cleaning and throwing everything out of the
> freezer
> and fridge. Darn! I lost lots of food from that hurricane Irene.
> now I'll have to start all over again. I got my power back on
> yesterday.
>
> Lucille
>
Sorry to hear that, Lucille.

--
Jean B.

frig real estate is too precious to have anything you don't want in there,
Lee
"Kalmia" > wrote in message
...
On Aug 31, 4:51 pm, A Moose in Love >
wrote:
> On Aug 31, 2:15 pm, Kalmia > wrote:
>
> > I'll start: I've had a bottle of chili pepper wine on the bottom door
> > shelf since........oh,' bout 2003. It is impossible to drink and I
> > keep forgetting to drop a bit into my hot dishes. I hate giving it
> > fridge space, but can't bring myself to pour into the drain. It might
> > eat my pipes. : ))
>
> I've got salad dressing, not as old as your stuff, but about 3 years
> old. Bottled Caesar, and bottled 3 cheese ranch. I don't want to use
> them because they are so old, and I don't want to throw them out. So
> they just sit there. I started making my own vinagrettes, so didn't
> use them.

So why not toss the contents, recyck the bottles and gain the space?
What's holding you up? Think of all that nice freedom from having to
root around amongst those bottles -- unless you've got em shoved way
in the back. Hey - that's another thread.

if it has to be ironed, i don't knowingly aquire it, Lee
"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
> ...
>>
>> "Polly Esther" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> "A Moose in Love" <Oh yeah. Something else. I've got a bottle of
>>> Mescal, that I picked
>>> up in Mazatlan Mexico back in 1979. It just sits there, complete with
>>> worm and everything. Yuch. I could understand drinking it way back
>>> then, but now...???
>>>
>>> There's starched and sprinkled baby clothes ready for ironing in our
>>> refrigerator. Not exactly sure of their age but the baby is about to
>>> become a grandfather. Polly
>>
>> ???
>
> Who irons baby clothes? I have read that in the old days they did
> refrigerate clothes until they were ready to iron them. I never did that.
> And nowadays I try to buy things that don't need to be ironed.
>

i am obsessive about cleaning the frig, first i had to because the frige was
dogey so wouldn't keep things all that well, then when we got the new one it
was so easy to keep clean, now we have been in the hotel its too small to
allow things to build up... am looking forward to a new frig lee


"Ophelia" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Hackmatack" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Hackmatack > wrote:
>>
>>> Paleo-alimentation.
>>
>> Paleo-alimentation is basically what's at the back of my refridgerator,
>> once you've scraped off the green fuzz.
>
> lol that sounds awful. I clean my fridge out every friday)
>
>
> --
> http://www.shop.helpforheros.org.uk

my last one was less than five years old and was deep as all get out, I
loved it as it would hold two half sheet pans side by side, shallow and wide
is a space waster, Lee
"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
...
>
> "sf" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 01:39:19 -0700, Meghan Noecker
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I think their fridge is too big. Things get pushed to the
>>> ack, and then forgotten.
>>
>> The newer refrigerators are the same capacity, but configured
>> differently. They're wider and shallower which makes it a lot easier
>> not to lose things at the back.
>
> My fridge is only a couple of years old. It's a side by side. Very deep.
> Very easy to lose things in it.
>
> <snip>
>

also if not opened will go well past the exp. date, Lee
"Nancy2" > wrote in message
...
On Sep 1, 7:47 am, Jim Elbrecht > wrote:
> James Silverton > wrote:
> >On 9/1/2011 2:50 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
> -snip-
>
>
>
> >> I found tons of old yogurt. Three tubs of sour cream with just a dab
> >> left
> >> in it. Old cream cheese but another cream cheese opened. And I few
> >> other
> >> things that were never eaten but had expired. So out they all went.
>
> >Weren't the old opened yoghurts and sour creams some interesting colors?
> >I've usually found that mold grows after less than a week in opened
> >containers.
>
> Either you need to turn the temp down in your fridge-- or I've got to
> stop buying sour cream and yogurt with embalming fluid in them.<g> I
> get closer to 6 weeks out of both before the mold forms.
>
> Jim

Further, cottage cheese, yogurt, sour cream, creme fraiche - all these
dairy products will last about twice as long if you store them upside
down. Don't ask me why, I don't know, but it sure-fire works.

N.

and if not opened was probably fine to consume, Lee
"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
...
> Jim Elbrecht wrote:
>> James Silverton > wrote:
>>
>>> On 9/1/2011 2:50 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> -snip-
>>>>
>>>> I found tons of old yogurt. Three tubs of sour cream with just a
>>>> dab left in it. Old cream cheese but another cream cheese opened.
>>>> And I few other things that were never eaten but had expired. So
>>>> out they all went.
>>>
>>> Weren't the old opened yoghurts and sour creams some interesting
>>> colors? I've usually found that mold grows after less than a week in
>>> opened containers.
>>
>> Either you need to turn the temp down in your fridge-- or I've got to
>> stop buying sour cream and yogurt with embalming fluid in them.<g> I
>> get closer to 6 weeks out of both before the mold forms.
>
> Some of mine expired in May.
>

its good until its not good, disregard the date as anything past a
suggestion, Lee
"Serene Vannoy" > wrote in message
...
> On 08/31/2011 11:15 AM, Kalmia wrote:
>> I'll start: I've had a bottle of chili pepper wine on the bottom door
>> shelf since........oh,' bout 2003. It is impossible to drink and I
>> keep forgetting to drop a bit into my hot dishes. I hate giving it
>> fridge space, but can't bring myself to pour into the drain. It might
>> eat my pipes. : ))
>
> Hmm, I have to go look. I'm pretty brutal about throwing things out, but
> I'll play along:
>
> Mmm, got distracted by the herring in garlic sauce that we bought at Ikea
> the other day. Yumma.
>
> Anyway, I guess it's a thing of sushi ginger that I can't remember when I
> bought. Probably several months ago, but not sure how many. I'm sure it's
> still good, right? There's no date on it.
>
> Serene
>
> --
> http://www.momfoodproject.com

On 9/3/2011 11:42 PM, Storrmmee wrote:
> if it has to be ironed, i don't knowingly aquire it,

> "Julie > wrote

>> > wrote

>>> "Polly > wrote

>>>> There's starched and sprinkled baby clothes ready for ironing in our
>>>> refrigerator. Not exactly sure of their age but the baby is about to
>>>> become a grandfather. Polly
>>>
>>> ???
>>
>> Who irons baby clothes? I have read that in the old days they did
>> refrigerate clothes until they were ready to iron them. I never did that.
>> And nowadays I try to buy things that don't need to be ironed.

Holy crow, Polly, you gave me flashbacks. When I was a kid I'd have
to sprinkle the clothes and handkerchiefs, put them in a bag and let
them marinate in the refrigerator.

Seems ridiculous, thinking back, what is up with adding more
wrinkles? Masochism? Or maybe my mother really is a sadist.
(laugh) Not out of the question.

It wouldn't occur to me to iron baby clothing, and I don't mind
ironing. I have the really nice iron to prove it but now I just
iron my tshirts and pants/whatever.

nancy

Storrmmee wrote:
> my last one was less than five years old and was deep as all get out, I
> loved it as it would hold two half sheet pans side by side, shallow and wide
> is a space waster, Lee

Ah, you have made that discovery too. (Mine features shelves with
edges that gently curve upwards--which also leads to loss of
usable space.) I can't even fit a fraction of my normal stuff in
the BIG new fridge.
--
Jean B.

this one i got was also very inexpensive less than five hundred dollars
iirc, it included an icemaker and was black with textured, but once i got
across to the dh what i wanted he looked until he got a nice price... who
knows what it will cost now, Lee
"Jean B." > wrote in message
...
> Storrmmee wrote:
>> my last one was less than five years old and was deep as all get out, I
>> loved it as it would hold two half sheet pans side by side, shallow and
>> wide is a space waster, Lee
>
> Ah, you have made that discovery too. (Mine features shelves with edges
> that gently curve upwards--which also leads to loss of usable space.) I
> can't even fit a fraction of my normal stuff in the BIG new fridge.
> --
> Jean B.

On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:15:23 -0700, sf > wrote:

>On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 01:39:19 -0700, Meghan Noecker
> wrote:
>
>> I think their fridge is too big. Things get pushed to the
>> ack, and then forgotten.
>
>The newer refrigerators are the same capacity, but configured
>differently. They're wider and shallower which makes it a lot easier
>not to lose things at the back.


Our old one was probbaly a good 25 years old. I know the freezer was
over 30 years old when it died. The fridge is nice, but huge. And more
than enough for two people.



>>
>> I think the oldest thing in my fridge is probably one of the
>> condiments. I don't go through them very fast.
>>
>> I do have some liquid smoke that is a couple years old. I was over
>> enthusiastic when I bought it, as I make a lot of salmon dip. I bought
>> 4 quarts, and I have only used two of them so far.
>
>4 quarts??? That's restaurant quantity. One of those quarts would
>outlast me. Heck, a cup of that stuff would outlast me. I don't use
>very much liquid smoke, but when I do it's by the drop - not the cup.


I make smoked salmon dip for everybody in my dept at work for
Christmas. I also sell it holiday bazaars. So, I will use 30 lbs of
cream cheese in one day's work. I was used to using several of the
small bottles found in grocery stores, so I really didn't know how
much I use when I bought the larger bottles. I was also expecting to
take more orders than I got, but that's how the economy is. So, I have
two bottles left.