It seems that every week, we discover something new and horrifyingly moldy in Erkan's fridge. Dave and Dani, if you are reading this, I want you to patent that project of yours ASAP. The first week I moved in, there was a pot of "almond soup" on the top shelf of the fridge. I pick it up, and a huge cloud of spores puffs out of it, floating greenly around. In the bottom, a cakelike layer of mold sits innocently. Mike and I flushed that down the toilet along with some soapy water. It took a bunch of flushes. We were too afraid to just leave it sitting in the trash.
That was only the beginning.
Over the last month we have found an awful lot of expired and moldy products while perusing the fridge in gastronomic desire, but today was really awful. We found that our bag of spinach had started fermenting in the crisper. Did you know that spinach liquor (???) is brown? And that when it dries up, it is slightly sticky? It dripped all over the bottom of the fridge, so we took out the drawers to clean it. I figured that while we were cleaning the crisper drawers, we might as well clean the bottom shelf as well, which was covered in some questionable brown sticky substance. When I removed everything from the bottom shelf, I found a bag of flatbread wedged in the corner that had expired in November. Under this was the second grossest thing I have ever found in that fridge (the first being the "almond soup") - once fresh grapes that had been in there so long that they had turned into raisins! Really. They looked exactly like giant raisins, and if they hadn't been covered in mold they might have been slightly appealing. It took a lot of scrubbing to remove both the spinach liquor and the questionable brown substance.
I think the grapes/raisins are the last moldy thing we will find in the fridge. Almost everything else in there now is fresh stuff. Hopefully now we won't have mold growing so fast on our new fresh produce. We were wondering why stuff we kept in the fridge would grow mold only a couple of days later.
IT FEELS SO GOOD TO HAVE A CLEAN FRIDGE.
Comments (4)
i had a moldy fridge at my college dorm sophomore year...
i made rich clean it :D
My roommate and I had heel and sole dressing painted across the back of our fridge. Despite going to a military academy, we still wonder why the hell someone would put that stuff in a fridge...
i saw the word "patent" xD. you know who to call in three years if you need one...
by the way, cleaning out our fridge when we moved out of our NYC apartment was the worst experience I had with cleaning... ever.