Ok. Maybe I wanna know what the coldest thing in your fridge?
I have this stupid sub-zero fridge. I hate everything about it. Not to mention the exorbitant price it was.
It’s fancy schmancy. Every bell and whistle(except ball ice, the assholes).
It is cold.
Water in the bottom drawer is super cold.
The doors and drawers are vacuum sealed. A strong man would cuss if he went got the milk out and decided to turn around and get the eggs out. It will ruin rotator cuffs. Eventually we’ll all be crippled like that.
When Mid-dau is cooking, I hear swear words everyday.
Odd things freeze. Slap cheese(singles) are awfully weird frozen. Could be used as a weapon. Tossed like a frisbee or a fighting star.
Also, fridged gravy, never reheats properly. It separates with an offputting flavor.
(I admit, that has always been a problem)
It is a right bitch to clean. Too many hidey holes.
The oldest thing I found was a hunk of Summer sausage. Maybe 5 years old.
There’s an egg drawer we don’t use. It freezes the eggs. So they are on the top shelf. The summer sausage was in the way back of that drawer.
Funny, it wasn’t frozen. I believe it had turned to jerky. Dehydrated the hard way.
The dogs didn’t want it. (Maybe they wanted that gravy over it?)
Oh, and that grabby vacuum gasket is the filthiest thing I found. I am happy that filth wasn’t inside the fridge near my near frozen foods and NO ball ice.(jerks)
I don’t even want to know what the oldest thing is. We’ve been living here for two years, and I’m pretty sure that the freezer has items approaching that.
I just bought a new fridge (and what a saga that was!), so many too-long-in-the-tooth items were disposed of in advance of its arrival.
For some reason, however, I just couldn’t quite part with the ancient jar of horseradish. I do not like horseradish, but occasionally there is a recipe that calls for it (shrimp cocktail sauce comes to mind), or a guest who loves the vile stuff. So I kept the jar. It’s… well, very old. Too nasty to go bad, is my guess.
Probably some pickles. I’m not a big fan, but I keep ending up with jars of them for some reason. Or perhaps the big bag of raw cashews that I got ca.2017 to make keto friendly cheesecake? There might be a jar of miso paste older than that?
Beck, doesn’t your fancy schmancy fridge have a temperature control? Every fridge I’ve ever owned had had at least a Colder-Warmer control, and the two I’ve bought in the last 10 years let you set an actual temperature in degrees for the fridge section (mine is currently 37 F) and separately for the freezer (currently 0 F).
There’s been a bottle of sake (as in the Japanese rice wine) with just a tiny bit left in the back of my fridge for, I don’t know, quite possibly 10 years now. I used to occasionally cook Japanese recipes that called for a splash of rice wine, but for some reason those dishes fell out of my rotation. But that bottle of sake just languished in the back of the fridge… until now. This thread actually inspired me to throw it out. I mean, if I decide to start cooking with it again I’d be better off getting a new bottle anyway at this point. So I guess it’s not the oldest thing in there any more.
There’s also been an unopened jar of Trader Joe’s “India relish” in there for many years. I bought it as an impulse buy, didn’t know what to do with it, kind of forgot about it. I guess I probably should throw that out, too.
So? Set it yourself. It’s not something that only a tech can adjust. You can adjust the temperature yourself.
It might be a dial. It might be some fancy shmancy digital control that you have to push the up and down buttons. But there should be some sort of control on it where you can set it to be warmer. It’s usually inside the fridge, but if your fridge has a fancy control panel on the door it might be controlled by that instead.
Also, make sure that the vents inside your fridge and freezer aren’t iced over or blocked. If you completely stuff your fridge or freezer so that there’s no airflow you can cause temperature control issues.
Every fridge I have ever had has been a lot more precise and a lot more controllable. Even the clunky 1950s fridge I had in the crappy apartment I rented in college didn’t accidentally freeze things.
By coincidence I was just digging though my fridge today, and found a tub of margarine in the back that I’d forgotten existed. No idea precisely how long it’s been there but the expiration date is November 2020. So 4+ years.
I keep a small box of not-particularly-rare coins on the lowest shelf at the back (on the possibly dubious theory that a thief wouldn’t look there). So my answer is an 1879-S silver dollar.
Looks like @Qadgop_the_Mercotan wins the thread for the oldest thing currently in the fridge!
If the rules are the oldest thing that’s continually been in the fridge, I may have a contender: a 16 year old bottle of Angostura bitters. Fun little story: One Christmas a couple years ago, my BIL gifted me with an ‘old fashioned drink’ making kit: a nice bottle of booze, some glasses, bougie ice molds, and a bottle of Angostura bitters. I said, I have this old bottle of bitters, around 14 years old at the time- let’s do a taste test against the new stuff. I thought the aged stuff tasted better, and my BIL chose the old stuff too in a blind taste test.
