> From one of the recent threads I discovered some strange habits I have in > the kitchen. One of them is keeping a bottle of reconstituted lemon juice > in the fridge when I rarely use it. I always buy an bottle when I run out > or the current bottle doesn't smell too great. Also out of habit I buy > those small baggies that hold just one sandwich. I never use them. I've > always got whole cloves on hand and use them maybe twice a year. What odd > kitchen habits does anyone else have?
I can never seem to have enough mustard on hand. When any of my multitude of bottles gets half empty I'm compelled to buy more.
Salt. Must always have good sea or kosher on hand. (we have 20 pounds now and I'm looking for a new source)
Hot sauce. It's in the fridge, the cabinets, it's everywhere! It's an obsession with me.
Good soy sauce (Lee Kum Kee) - I *never* want to run out of that.
I also buy too much bread and cheese. Most of which gets thrown out when it molds. (I cut the mold off cheese, but bread is gone when it starts).
On Jul 3, 8:10 pm, "Michael \"Dog3\"" <f...@good.hot> wrote:
> From one of the recent threads I discovered some strange habits I have in > the kitchen. One of them is keeping a bottle of reconstituted lemon juice > in the fridge when I rarely use it. I always buy an bottle when I run out > or the current bottle doesn't smell too great. Also out of habit I buy > those small baggies that hold just one sandwich. I never use them. I've > always got whole cloves on hand and use them maybe twice a year. What odd > kitchen habits does anyone else have?
I balance the sponge on the dishwasher overflow valve, so the air circulates underneath and over the sponge.
I return the coffee grounds basket a little unbalanced so that the lid doesn't shut all the way and the reservoir area dries out.
I dry handwashables on the top dishwasher rack until the next morning.
I keep the butter dish in the cupboard for umm protection.
I wash the stovetop burner rings and circle things (that go under the coils), and the air vent filter in the dishwasher nearly every time I run the dishwasher.
I keep weight loss blender products on the counter top but never use them.
"Michael "Dog3"" <f...@good.hot> wrote in message > . What odd > kitchen habits does anyone else have?
> Michael
My habits are not odd, its all of those other people that are wrong.
Soda, even opened, is never refrigerated. Butter should be used from one end of the stick, never from both ends to the middle. And NEVER scrape the top. Onions are always sliced across the rings, never lengthwise like my wife sometimes does. Probably a few other quirks that seem normal to me.
Michael "Dog3" wrote: > From one of the recent threads I discovered some strange habits I > have in the kitchen. One of them is keeping a bottle of > reconstituted lemon juice in the fridge when I rarely use it. I > always buy an bottle when I run out or the current bottle doesn't > smell too great. Also out of habit I buy those small baggies that > hold just one sandwich. I never use them. I've always got whole > cloves on hand and use them maybe twice a year. What odd kitchen > habits does anyone else have?
> Michael
The main thing I can think of is that on trash day, I'm obsessed with throwing *every* little thing out. I rummage through the 'fridge for old food to toss and I have to make sure every scrap of paper towel, soda bottle or can is out the minute I hear that garbage truck coming around the corner. I drag the trash bin out to the curb early and I keep a grocery bag on the door handle for anything that I may find or use until the trashmen get here. I even wake up early to go through food magazines for recipes I can copy into my recipe program just so I can toss the magazine!
I'm slowly getting a little more relaxed about it, though. My husband has drilled it into me that it's a form of OCD and I should get over it (heck, I used to finger-space all my hangers and color co-ordinate my closet). Is my life going to collapse if I miss a stray kleenex when the garbage men come? No, it's not.
Michael "Dog3" wrote: > From one of the recent threads I discovered some strange habits I have in > the kitchen. One of them is keeping a bottle of reconstituted lemon juice > in the fridge when I rarely use it. I always buy an bottle when I run out > or the current bottle doesn't smell too great. Also out of habit I buy > those small baggies that hold just one sandwich. I never use them. I've > always got whole cloves on hand and use them maybe twice a year. What odd > kitchen habits does anyone else have?
I like to make patterns with the eggs left in the carton as I take them out. I generally only need one or two eggs at a time. I'll remove eggs all from one side, symetrically from both sides, in a zigzag pattern taking one egg from each side. I never rearrange the remaining eggs to form the pattern. The only eggs I touch are the ones I'm removing from the carton to use.
Julia Altshuler wrote: > Michael "Dog3" wrote: >> From one of the recent threads I discovered some strange habits I >> have in the kitchen. One of them is keeping a bottle of >> reconstituted lemon juice in the fridge when I rarely use it. I >> always buy an bottle when I run out or the current bottle doesn't >> smell too great. Also out of habit I buy those small baggies that >> hold just one sandwich. I never use them. I've always got whole >> cloves on hand and use them maybe twice a year. What odd kitchen >> habits does anyone else have?
> I like to make patterns with the eggs left in the carton as I take > them out. I generally only need one or two eggs at a time. I'll > remove eggs all from one side, symetrically from both sides, in a > zigzag pattern taking one egg from each side. I never rearrange the > remaining eggs to form the pattern. The only eggs I touch are the > ones I'm removing from the carton to use.
Michael "Dog3" wrote: > From one of the recent threads I discovered some strange habits I have in > the kitchen. One of them is keeping a bottle of reconstituted lemon juice > in the fridge when I rarely use it. I always buy an bottle when I run out > or the current bottle doesn't smell too great. Also out of habit I buy > those small baggies that hold just one sandwich. I never use them. I've > always got whole cloves on hand and use them maybe twice a year. What odd > kitchen habits does anyone else have?
> Michael
The baggies that hold one sandwich are great for refrigerating cut limes or lemons.
I always have to have a spare jar of mayonnaise in the pantry.
-- Janet Wilder Bad spelling. Bad punctuation Good Friends. Good Life
>> From one of the recent threads I discovered some strange habits I have in >> the kitchen. One of them is keeping a bottle of reconstituted lemon >> juice in the fridge when I rarely use it. I always buy an bottle when I >> run out or the current bottle doesn't smell too great. Also out of habit >> I buy those small baggies that hold just one sandwich. I never use them. >> I've always got whole cloves on hand and use them maybe twice a year. >> What odd kitchen habits does anyone else have? > The baggies that hold one sandwich are great for refrigerating cut limes > or lemons.
> I always have to have a spare jar of mayonnaise in the pantry.
Imagine my shock to find out I was out of mayo a few weeks back, because I always have a couple jars stored. Ditto light cream for coffee.
I don't know if I have any kitchen weirdness. The coffee cups all match and when I put them in the cabinet, all the handles line up the same way, is that weird? Spoons in the utensil drawer, all go in spoon side down. I think that might be it.
> From one of the recent threads I discovered some strange habits I have in > the kitchen. One of them is keeping a bottle of reconstituted lemon juice > in the fridge when I rarely use it. I always buy an bottle when I run out > or the current bottle doesn't smell too great. Also out of habit I buy > those small baggies that hold just one sandwich. I never use them. I've > always got whole cloves on hand and use them maybe twice a year. What odd > kitchen habits does anyone else have?
> Michael
> -- > Best license plate seen in a long time.
> ~ S CARGO ~
> To email - michael at lonergan dot us dot com
I don't think it as a 'weirdness' more of an obsession. I have can goods stocked so if a nuclear winter came in, we'd eat well for a while. I think it stems from my childhood when my mom (and I have a friend who does this now) was more concerned with paying the bills on time than grocery shopping. We weren't on the wealthy side of the tracks by a long shot and she would scrimp and save to make sure we paid ON TIME, and then, and only then, would she take what was left and grocery shop. I remember beans as a meal for a number of years. Now with kids of my own, the friggin bills can wait, they get paid, but the kids get fed first and I will make sure there is food in the pantry, heaven forbid, if we do lack funds. Am I alone in this? My friend, after paying her bills will buy two pieces of chicken for four people because that's all she has $$ left for. -ginny
Michael \"Dog3\" wrote: > From one of the recent threads I discovered some strange habits I have in > the kitchen. One of them is keeping a bottle of reconstituted lemon juice > in the fridge when I rarely use it.
It's handy stuff to have on hand. I always do. Fresh lemons are expensive here, especially out of season, so I use the bottled stuff fortified with real lemon juice in recipes that call for lemon juice. I also use bottled lime juice. In the summer I make up some sugar syrup and add bottled lime juice as a base for Mojitos. I add some of the syrup, a bit of freshly squeezed lime to rum and soda water.
> I always buy an bottle when I run out > or the current bottle doesn't smell too great. Also out of habit I buy > those small baggies that hold just one sandwich. I never use them. I've > always got whole cloves on hand and use them maybe twice a year. What odd > kitchen habits does anyone else have?
How long to cloves last? Years ago my wife bought a big jar of cloves to stick into oranges at Christmas. We still have most of them left. They probably lost their zip 20 years ago. I rarely use them.
