re: One thing your spouse puts in the fridge that makes no sense.

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Recipe?

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My recipe is very simple to do and I use hotter than normal peppers such as habanero, ghost, Trinidad Scorpion, etc.

Let's say I'm using habaneros for this:

Wash and remove any green stem material, leave peppers whole.

50 whole habanero
1 lg. onion rough cut
6 cloves garlic peeled of skin
Juice of 1 large lemon
White Vinegar
Salt
Pint Mason Jars, new seals and screw on lids

Before you start making the hot sauce, get a pot on the stove with enough water to cover the pint jars by at least 1 inch, add 1/4 cup of vinegar to the water if you have hard water and bring it up to 185 degrees and hold that temperature. While the water is heating, do the following.

Put the first 4 ingredients in a blender then add enough white vinegar to come up half way to the ingredients in the blender, salt to taste (I generally use about 1/3 cup to start). You may want to use more or less depending on your taste and you can add it in the second step.

Blend ingredients until it is finely chopped up. This usually takes me about 2 minutes of running and making sure it is well blended.

Transfer this to a stainless steel pot on the stove and bring to a low boil to cook for about 5 minutes. Check for salt and add if you want more.

While that is going on, wash Mason jars and lids to thoroughly clean them. Fill the jars to within 1/4 in. from the top, wipe the tops of the jars and place the seal and screw on lid and secure hand tight.

After the jars are filled and sealed put them in the hot water bath for 15 minutes for pint jars. After 15 minutes remove the jars and place them on a rag on the countertop to cool. As they cool they will form a vacuum and you will hear a distinctive "pop" when that happens.

No need to refrigerate this product so in the pantry it can go. Once open you can put it in a shaker bottle like an old Worcestershire or Soy Sauce bottle to use.

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Hot sauce doesn’t go bad hoss.

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You’ve never seen that nasty arse, unrefrigerated bottle of BROWN Tabasco on a restaurant table? It does go bad.

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After a hurricane she cleaned the fridge out and threw away the sugar bc she said it went bad from the power outage.

And yes she's blonde.

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Well, in her defense, if things went to rotting in the fridge after a power outage, it definitely could affect the taste of the sugar if the odors got to it.

If not, then she's not the sharpest knife in the butcher block.

Restaurant leftover boxes…

They always get shoved in the fridge, forgotten aboot, and eventually thrown away by me.

Hence, I’ve given our fridge a new moniker: Refrigerated Trashcan

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Tabasco and other hot sauces last way longer if refrigerated.

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It mostly vinegar and salt.

Doesnt really go bad

Starting buying Crazy Richard's organic peanut butter once I found out the emulsifiers added to the normally processed food peanut butter causes leaky gut syndrome. Without the toxic emulsifiers you have to refrigerate it or it is a liquid.