Thursday, February 8, 2018

MOOD: throwing out old spices

You come back from a trip with fresh eyes. 
Like, maybe you open your cupboards and realize you haven't refreshed your spices in two years, and half of them have turned to sawdust.

Fair enough, but why did I ever buy 79¢ chili powder in a plastic bottle, with a TWO-year expiration date, in the first place?

(It doesn't even need a date. Salt never goes bad.)

5 comments:

gz said...

It is hard to throw things away...although ground spices...must springclean the spice drawer!!!! I have enough whole spices.

Dried pulses is another thing...how come after a while you can soak and cook all you like they are still inedible!!

Michael Leddy said...

Not that long ago, I tossed a bottle of curry powder that I had bought as a grad student in Boston (c. 1983?). Of course, the precondition for tossing the thing is finding it, way back on a shelf.

Fresca said...

GZ: Right--they have turned into rocks!

MICHAEL: LOL! that curry.
Right--you have to do some spelunking to find those old spices...

Anonymous said...

I had to laugh when reading this post. I was just checking my spices a few weeks ago. Let's see ground cloves and nutmeg expiring 2008 and ground ginger 2013. They still smell good though......

Kirsten

Fresca said...

KIRSTEN: This seems to be a universal shared phenomenon! :)

If they still smell, I use them---just in double-strength.