Cleaning House

Posted by BBQ Resources at 9/15/2008 5:48 PM
Categories: Projects
I'm currently off on a couple of week's holidays and am trying to dedicate as much time as possible to getting the house in order for the winter.  Part of that includes getting all the bbq stuff off the back deck and put away for the winter.  Other projects are more along the line of yard work and house cleaning.  One oft-put-off project is that of cleaning out the fridge of all the sauces, marinades that have either expired or I just haven't got around to using up in a timely fashion.

Like many bbq'ers I have a habit of picking up jars of bbq sauce the way my wife buys shoes; that's often and usually in pairs!  Today was time to weed through the stockpile in the fridge and get rid of some the stuff that had gone stale or wasn't as good as I'd hoped it would be (or as good as the label would have led me to believe!).  I even found some tamarind paste in the fridge with an expiry date of Feb 2004, so it's obvious that this job was long overdue.

Just to give you an idea of how much and how many old bbq sauce, mustard, hot sauce and condiment bottles I had that were expired or long-forgotten, here's the stash that went into the recycle bin (these didn't include the half dozen mason jars of homemade sauces and sauce experiments that were dumped and jars washed out):


Don't worry about me though; there's still plenty of sauces to work with (including some unopened jars that are in the pantry cupboard), and now there's even plenty more room in the fridge to start building a new stockpile!



That's all I got for today!  Look for a neat smoked meat experiment in the coming days; you can just see the tip top of the ziploc bag it's curing in in the crisper below the sauces.  They're smellin' mighty fine and getting just about fully cured and ready for smoke!
Til then,
 Mike


 

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