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. What is the oldest thing in my kitchen? I'm not even 100% sure what it is. I have some extremely old stuff in my fridge all this

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wait what are the rules? I fucking forgot. I feel like this is a really fun moment because everyone is like they're really getting familiar with them. your pantry and your refrigerator in your freezer I'll store condiments like crazy I just don't throw things away I really use the criteria of does it look good does it smell good and if both of those things are the case then it's okay to eat, it's like something that people tell me gave away and yet I haven't opened them.

I once ate a batch of sauerkraut with celery that I had made and kept it like two different moves and it was still good. a very nice collection of pinfish. I don't think it has anything to do with what we're talking about, but they last a long time, so it's okay, should I go get it on the weekend I'm taking us out? through what you got, this is tamarind paste, it expired in July 2013, oh, this is something old, for some reason, we have a bottle of Malta. I found one thing that had expired over a year ago, breadcrumbs from Trader Joe's cleared out on May 28th. 2019, if this is what I think it is, then it's obvious that my friend Christine smuggled it back from Italy in her suitcase and then left it on my desk at work, so this is a jar of my mother-in-law's Napa kimchi that It sells for 5 :30 1:20 We've been here for over 31 days listen to that, hear it, see how it rises, that's crazy.

Next up is Stocki cream, it's like Nutella, if Nutella was made from pistachios, maybe I bought it when I was in Italy, maybe. Someone bought it in Italy and brought it to me. Frankly, I don't know because what happened happened in 2012, so these are amarena cherries, they don't really have an expiration date. I only use them for drinks and haven't had a drink with These were a while ago, but it's been about two years now, so I bought this starter for the first time. I think it must have been 2000. I mean 15, maybe sourdough starter is a mixture of flour and water and is the life force of sourdough or naturally leavened bread. and I love it and I've had it forever this is a yogurt starter what year is this yogurt it starts over so every time we make yogurt we use the previous batch to make the next batch of yogurt what's your warm milk?

By heating the milk, you are killing all the bacteria in the milk and the idea is to infuse that milk with these fresh bacteria so it can multiply. It's just yogurt, it's just yogurt. I think the items that I'm afraid to use are things that I say, well, how am I going to get it again? I have this thing here, so I think we've had it in the kitchen for four years. They are called chunio, they are these freeze-dried potatoes that are like naturally freeze-dried. in the Andes or something we haven't used it because we think what if it's amazing and we want more and we don't know where to get it.

Want to talk about fruitcake real quick? This is also what year this death thing is from, only ten years old, it's Corsicana as seen in the Netflix

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, it animates, so you know, it's now famous for two things, this is good, we've gotten everything out This, you know, I feel like we're doing something. kind of spiritual cleansing I'm going to eat all this food and move on to the next stage of my life, how about this? This is a little nut mix, let's get rancid, it's part of some kind of fruit basket my parents gave us for our anniversary.

It's been like 4 years, so we only have France and nuts that we've carried from apartment to apartment because I feel bad about throwing them away and I'm not going to throw them away today and I'm not going to eat them either. I chose for my oldest article this still half-full tub of gochujang, a Korean fermented chili paste that says July 13, 2017, but also says January 12, 2019, but because this is a prefermented product that is stored in the refrigerator, it's just one. of those products that are good for life the starter that is in my refrigerator is sometimes called mother this is the starter where I never use it all I keep it constantly so I feed it with white flour only for all purpose and then when I'm making bread, I take some out of the refrigerator and I make something called love from the starter, so it's like a younger, livelier starter that I'm making from this as a master starter.

Have you named the mother and are you naming her children? I know it's just called clear starter, it's part of me, so this right here has been there for a while, it's probably absolutely hilarious, it's garlic and miso packed together and fermented, that liquid is probably How delicious, but yeah, this It's probably over 200 years old, okay, so hey, I wonder what everyone else's stuff is, what else do we have? Oh, here this pistachio paste is a gift and it's expensive, so I want to make sure I use it correctly, you know? I don't want to just have it on toast, I can only find those leaves, so it's so old it has no expiration date.

It's a cold jar, although it's okay, the artichoke cream and my oil, delicious, would be a delicious sauce, why? Never use it? 2010 Cosmo What year were you born? So you're a year older than this. I think there's a big tendency for people who create

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own starter to think that they've screwed it up and it's not right and they should start over and I would just say keep going even if it smells really bitter like it's normal just keep going. Go ahead and have faith in the process yeah, this is old, this is, this is a shame, this is dried seaweed I've had this for a damn decade, okay, this biryani has been in the freezer for maybe three years, It was since the last time my mom visited me.

Every time I visit, she makes this mutton biryani and I always save some for I like to eat on a rainy day, but like I never, ever have the day where I think, yeah, I'm going to smash the biryani, but guys, this It is, this is the oldest thing I found, it is tomato jam, it is also Italian. It was guaranteed to last until July 2004, that's a while. I think I feel guilty about throwing things away. I will never use this challenge. I don't know, is this a challenge? Why do not you go? We should eat it. at some point use it for that no, I don't want it today, do we have to eat it today?

Yes, it smells good. I mean, I shouldn't try it. Oh man, I don't know. I'm a little afraid to eat. this I'm not going to eat the starter it doesn't taste good don't make me eat the starter you can feed it needless to say Dan wants me to give her the starter but she doesn't need to be fed so I'll stand my ground I won't do it she feeds on Thursdays boy didn't you know make it mm-hmm it's just miso and raw garlic that I crushed and minced lightly and then you packed it in miso and let it ferment this really looks amazing this would be great in a vinaigrette okay look at this okay dad this is your piece well I must get part of the street they say I'm pretty they okay well there you go it's so good, wow, wow, just wow, it smells like candy, it seems like Wonder appears in your pop rocks, boy, I wish that you could smell it, it smells delicious.

I'm going to try the molasses, the other things are good. I don't want to open them, I think. the lids are going to break do you want to try it yeah you know what I'm going to eat the breadcrumbs because I feel like they probably don't taste like anything okay I'll try some of this it's not ideal but I'll do it it's like this balance between a light funk definitely a lot of spice like this its definitely spicy and sweet it's surprisingly sweet let's try the car trophy cream hmm card trophies aren't going to kill me it's predominantly very garlicky and oily now so I'm going to try this .

It's so sour that the producers don't make me do this. I do it of my own free will, so it looks really beautiful. The fat is super super milky. It really melts your mouth. It is salty, but not very salty. The taste of pork. the taste of the pork fat itself is like it's struggling here because there's a bit of a freezer burn aftertaste, the kimchi continues to ferment and continues to build up acidity in there, it's very BAM everywhere I've been. I lived, my mom came and made biryani which I kept in the freezer and never ate and ended up throwing away when I moved.

This is the container I eat and it is perfectly fine. I'm really surprised it's still good. It's like pulverized, just pulverized. bread here we go ten year old fruit cake and 16 17 year old yogurt starter our refrigerator in a nutshell I think what I learned is that I have a hard time throwing away gifts even when they are not things I care about and it is edible if you are not willing to try it you have to throw it away you'll never use it so get rid of it you're not really using something like it find a way to use it use it in a recipe give it away I'm glad we're doing this this was eye opening I think I'm going to stop preserving food for nostalgic reasons not eating it as bad as throwing it away thank you very much for watching and I See you next time from my kitchen Gavi cooks great what is that oh I didn't like that I didn't like that I'm joking with that weirdo?