What Items Do You Always Keep in Your Refrigerator?
Hello and welcome back toWhat’s Cooking? , an open thread where you can share all your brilliant thoughts, tips, recipes and opinions on all food related matters. This week, I want to talk about how you fill your refrigerator, with a focus on the foods, drinks, and condiments you will never be without.
I’ve always been incredibly interested in the mundane details of other people’s lives, and given my interest in anything edible, I was on the verge of obsessing over the contents of other people’s fridges. While my refrigerator is usually busy with whateversous-vide experiment I’m working on this week, there are a few things that keep it full no matter what.
Besides my essential Diet Coke , my fridge almost always has pickles (gherkins or clausen halves, depending on my mood), soy sauce, miso, eggs, onions, carrots, olives, cheese, and sour cream. There are usually other things in there, but they are required. Now that you know mine, I want to hear yours. Here are some questions to help you get started:
- What seasonings do you always have on hand, no matter what? Seriously, I can’t live without sour cream.
- Do you have any fruit preserves? What are the flavors? I love strawberry.
- Is food more convenient than eggs? Is it possible to live without them? (That is, I know people do it, but I don’t understand how.)
- What about drinks? Do you have special soda or seltzer water in your life? Diet Coke is always on hand, but I also need some La Croix.
- Do you have a lot of meat? I used to have chicken thighs close at hand, but now I just buy meat on the day I plan to eat it, mainly because my refrigerator is so small.
- What kind of fruit do you keep in the refrigerator? There is not a single fruit that I buy all the time, as I usually buy everything that is in season. Now I really love peaches.
- Are you one of those lucky ones to have a refrigerator exclusively for drinks? What kind of life it should be.
As always, feel free to shy away from these questions and talk about any other foods, seasonings, or leavens that are stored in your refrigerator. You can also talk about non-food items. Don’t some people store batteries in the refrigerator? Or did I imagine it?