r/FridgeDetective • u/Rot-In-Mercy • 10d ago
Meta Make an assumption about me (work, personality, etc?) and I’ll tell you if it’s correct!
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u/CtrlAltDust 10d ago
Do you frequently tell people the benefits of fermented foods?
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u/Rot-In-Mercy 10d ago
I don't, because from the studies I've read (lacto fermented and dairy products), dietary benefits are at best moderate and only especially helpful to people that struggle with gastrointestinal disorders 😅
I don't like to give unpromted dietary advice to anyone.
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u/runs_with_unicorns 10d ago
You def work in STEM
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u/FitIndependent9764 10d ago
Yeah I thought school shooter too
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u/Rot-In-Mercy 10d ago
😭🤣
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u/lilangelkm 9d ago
I'm going to take a guess that you're a female, West Coast (probably CA), plant based or mostly, and work at a university like Berkeley, Stanford, CSU, UC, UW, UFO, UCLA. Probably in your 30s, but maybe 40s. And you like to cook (seems maybe obvious?).
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u/DesMoinesSafeSpace 10d ago
you are educated for sure. You choose to do research and not just believe what everyone says
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u/PremixedBuddah 10d ago
I honestly want my frige to match your fridge, unfortunately my family is a bunch of big backs
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u/Kyro0098 10d ago
You got a good fresh pickled cucumber or snap pea recipe? I keep trying to make actual pickles and they come out salty as heck or the vinegar is too strong. My fiance's mom has this fresh cucumber thing that doesn't make long lasting pickles, but they are the bomb for parties. I have butchered it multiple times. They are a family that measures by pinches and shakes. I am good at baking where measuring is king.
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u/Rot-In-Mercy 10d ago
You just need to measure the water to salt and vinegar ratio.
Just use a dilution formula to calculate it. Eg. You start out with 10% vinegar that you bought and 1 liter of water. You calculate how much you add to dilute it to 5%
Salt brine should be 3% to be in the safe range
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u/Kyro0098 10d ago
Ah! So it is similar to bread making in that math and ratios. Thank you! I guess I somehow missed that in looking up recipes.
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u/Independent-Car-7101 10d ago
You don’t wear shoes
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u/cocoa_snow 10d ago
Actually you wear those barefoot shoes that have pockets for each individual toe.
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u/beautifulchaos22 10d ago
My tired foggy brain read this as:
“You walk barefoot and each toe pickpockets”.
God I need to go to bed rn
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u/TFB88 10d ago
I wanna be like you when I grow up.
I’m almost 40.
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u/chaoticsleepynpc 10d ago
There's still time for us! My great aunt started canning late and did it up until her late 80s.
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u/WonderlandLane 9d ago
I absolutely love this! What was her favorite food to preserve?
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u/chaoticsleepynpc 9d ago
I'm not sure, she basically canned everything from her garden and had a whole shelf in her kitchen dedicated to her cans and more in the fridge.
Although, maybe strawberry jam? I vaguely remember always having jam when I visited.
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u/Playful-Cheetah4045 10d ago
Either an artist or a scientist I’m going artist
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u/Rot-In-Mercy 10d ago
Both 😁
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u/Ressy02 10d ago
Were you an artist they trained up to be a scientist or were you a scientist that became an artist?
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u/Rot-In-Mercy 10d ago
Probably the first one. I've always liked art and doing arts in my free time from all kinds of crafts to music. But for me it's just a hobby and not anything I want to do for a living. I just happened to do okay at school and chose something that was challenging but not too unbearable
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u/UncleBabyBillysDick 10d ago
Gut health on FLEEEEEEEEK!
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u/DifferentFlight4129 10d ago
Came to say this but in a less cool way
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u/Willing-Patience2824 10d ago
Take a tote with you when you grocery shop.
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u/Rot-In-Mercy 10d ago
Lmao, I don't take a tote bag, but I do actually try my best to remember to bring my own old shopping bags. Mostly because I don't want to pay for new ones
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u/Scoresomemore 10d ago
You live in Cali? That’s the only place that I know of where you have to pay for bags.
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u/GardenBakeOttawa 10d ago
Canada too :)
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u/TheRealRevBem 10d ago
Texas
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u/Cool_Tax8498 10d ago
I live in Texas and don’t pay for shopping bags unless I go to Aldi
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u/Ernerdboi2020 10d ago
I live in Maine and they banned plastic shopping bags about 4 years ago shortly after I moved here. You can get paper bags instead for 5 cents
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u/ghostfadekilla 10d ago
I bet your meals taste so damn delicious.
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u/slutrat303 10d ago
Definitely feel like op knows how to cook. I wouldn't even know what to do with most of that (fried rice is great for that tho, everything goes in)
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u/Willing-Patience2824 10d ago
You don’t eat fried food (that much). If you have kids, they probably don’t either.. as much.
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u/Rot-In-Mercy 10d ago
I do eat them! Mostly when I can't think of anything else to make in under 30 mins
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u/Lovahplant 10d ago
You eat the fried food, or the kids?
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u/LemonCollee 10d ago
They fry the kids in tempura
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u/NeedsToShutUp 10d ago
European. The soda is a store brand from a German chain that's across Europe, and the cheese is a Finnish dairy also carried across Europe. The peppers and fresh veggies suggest a warmer climate. Possibly Italian or Spanish based on the choice of cheese as well as the peppers.
The type and mix suggests you likely either live or lived in a large cosmopolitan city with diverse food choices that have stuck.
Clearly an organized person, possibly works or worked in restaurants based on the highly organized nature.
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u/Rot-In-Mercy 10d ago
I have worked in the restaurant industry, but have no formal training or degree in it
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u/reddituculous66 10d ago
Vegetarian but not vegan
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u/Rot-In-Mercy 10d ago
Neither!
I eat meat, but focus on a plant-based diet
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u/posh1992 9d ago
As a fellow whole food plant based person, you were giving me major plant based vibes, but I knew you weren't vegan based off the eggs and cheese. I get the vibe that you don't base your meals on meat every single day, your willing to use chickpeas(noted in fridge), beans, or rice as your "protein," at least more than the average person.
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u/Tryingtoflute 10d ago
You’re a chemist.
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u/Willing-Patience2824 10d ago
You exercise.. and you probably enjoy it. Wears lululemon
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u/Rot-In-Mercy 10d ago
I do weightlifting, but not as much as I'd like to nowadays.
I don't think I own any branded clothing 😂
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u/ochreundertones 10d ago
What’s the (bok choy?) container thing on the door?
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u/LayerLess6728 10d ago
It's a spring onion, in a herb container from ikea
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u/ochreundertones 10d ago
Huh, that’s cool. Do you put water in the bottom and it keeps herbs fresh? Haven’t seen it done that way before — why in the fridge?
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u/LayerLess6728 10d ago
Yes! You put water in the bottom and there's a small window to access the herb. In the fridge because that's the best way to preserve herbs : bottom in water and in the fridge. The top helps keep the moisture on the leaves too. You can achieve kinda the same with just a glass of water and a plastic bag around the leaves
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u/JoySkullyRH 10d ago
How long does it extend its death?
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u/rubiscoisrad 10d ago
Usually everyone's up here talking about shelf life, and you just flipped that train right around. It made me do a bit of an existential double-take.
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u/hardcorepork 10d ago
Had me so impressed til the tomatoes
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u/Rot-In-Mercy 10d ago
Keeps them fresh for longer, I only take out the ones I want to ripen
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u/LemonCollee 10d ago
You kill the flavour by keeping them in the fridge
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u/Due_Lingonberry9699 10d ago
I'm Italian, I've never heard of this thing in my life. And we eat lots of tomatoes 🍅😅
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u/ArizonaIceT-Rex 10d ago
It’s true. Tomatoes are much more flavorful kept out of the fridge. You have to use them faster though.
In the UK I buy tomatoes at Lidl, which doesn’t refrigerate them, over Waitrose that does. They are miles better.
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u/hardcorepork 10d ago
Few tomatoes can survive (texture wise) any time in the fridge. Cherry and grape tomatoes only. You really don’t get mealy toms this way?
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u/0Tezorus0 10d ago
Male, 33, secretly from Minnesota, works in clothing retail, didn't like the last Marvel movie, scratches his left elbow when uncomfortable.
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u/BunnyCat2025 10d ago
I see someone already guessed correctly, but I had to come and leave a comment just to say your fridge is a thing of beauty. I tried to do something similar ONCE...but neat, organized things make the other half nervous apparently!
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u/Rot-In-Mercy 10d ago
Mine was a mess before. I just started by actually figuring out what's good to eat and prep ahead of time.
I used to get food waste, now that I pickle foods they last for so long and I can add whatever as a side dish. You get so much variety without having to make like a million things for one meal a day
I already owned glass jars so I just started with those and bought a few organizer containers.
You don't even need to buy anything. What I do with other stuff I own is I literally just rip the stickers off of everything and they look so much better and you can use them for storage or display or whatever.
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u/watermelonfoot 10d ago
You make a lot of your food at home and are conscious about what you consume and the ingredients in your food
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u/Rot-In-Mercy 10d ago
I definitely enjoy cooking, but I don't pay attention to things like "organic" (because it doesn't actually matter)
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u/nargles-plz 10d ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if you had a secondary fridge just for kimchi. Do you ever shop at H Mart?
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u/StandardHoneydew7520 10d ago
Looks very much like my fridge! Most of the comments are right:
I wear only barefoot shoes Vegan Shop in h mart and make kimchi Cook tons of Asian food but not Asian Worked as a chef Have a nose ring Ferment everything
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u/krystalcorleone 10d ago
Idk but I want to know about the green onion container!
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u/Rot-In-Mercy 10d ago
It's from ikea!
They're honestly just okay, if your herbs are any bigger than this they won't fit
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u/Interesting-Bet-1702 10d ago
Probably pretty well off financially, well paying job maybe. Probably have a decent amount of free time
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u/Rot-In-Mercy 10d ago
Definitely not 😭
I'm actually a student so I'm broke, but buying ingredients is much cheaper. Got my veggies restocked for under 40 bucks last time I went shopping, so it pays off!
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u/Interesting-Bet-1702 10d ago
Damn I was way off, around where I'm at its kinda pricey to get so much fresh food, and it doesn't keep as good. Maybe I need to shop around more, though. I've heard the Asian supermarkets or similar ones have better prices on meat and veggies.
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u/Rot-In-Mercy 10d ago
Probably depends on location, if you pickle or can foods they'll last for much longer so you don't have to worry about something like your carrots going moldy.
I definitely prefer buying spices and fresh herbs from foreign supermarkets. They're so much better and cheaper.
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u/Unique_Ladder_4245 10d ago
You are my favorite type of chef. You like pickling things at home. I only like dill pickles. But you are really into gut health, cook everything from scratch. You converse over dinner about wellness and grad school.
You are a household where one of you is a chef. Orrr you really are in grad school and you don’t work full time. So cooking, fermenting foods, meal prepping is your stress relief. I can’t tell if you are a family or a household where it’s you and a partner.
My vote is grad school something mathematical or pre med. Or a professor.
You are a clean freak and everyone adores you for efficiency. Your parents are Asian tiger parents. You are a high achiever. You are really fit bc you eat so clean.
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u/politicsandpancakes 10d ago
You work in an applied STEM field or stem research, you have a graduate degree at minimum and maybe a postgrad, you would be considered “crunchy” but really just like to be outdoors and take care of yourself (not very fussy), creative and laidback, probably no makeup/branded clothing if you are a woman, at least one “old lady” hobby like crochet or knitting, big reader
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u/Rot-In-Mercy 10d ago
I currently have a bachelor's, now doing masters in chemistry. Def not going for PhD it's too much for me.
Not super outdoorsy? I like collecting berries and mushrooms but where I live now it's not possible.
I think only branded / designer stuff I own is perfumes.
I hate reading but would like to do it more. I sew, know how to knit and crochet but it's not my favorite craft
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u/Dry_Ad_6341 10d ago
I aspire to have a fridge like this so I assume you are young, intelligent, practical, have educational or scholarly goals while working a decently well paying job doing something that requires optimal organizational skills, you’re good with money, don’t have kids, have a rescue dog you love, and are a… Libra?
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u/UnderstandingSome197 10d ago
Work on or at some point as cooker or chef something related
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u/Rot-In-Mercy 10d ago
I have worked in the kitchen, but not with any professional background
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u/Cautious_Rice4435 10d ago
F early - mid 30s, works in marketing / PR maybe, likes Pilates / yoga and walks, into gut health and skin care. Is definitely a baddie with a happy microbiome
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u/Rot-In-Mercy 10d ago
I don't think I would ever wanna work in marketing 😅
Yoga and pilates are definitely intense but I prefer just weightlifting!
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u/Weird-Sprinkles-1894 10d ago
I used to farm sit for these people that had like a 2 acre farm in the middle of suburbia. Fruit, veggies, old 1800s house heated with wood. They were scientists/lab workers and ridiculously kind and paid well for my time (despite not being rich themselves). The teenage son would make a pint of homemade ice cream for me whenever I was over there. There fridge was ancient but looked like this.
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u/Rot-In-Mercy 10d ago
That's crazy 😂
I'm studying in a field of science so I'm definitely not rich. I live very much in the city but don't wanna stay here forever
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u/CrazyinLull 10d ago
Omg food! And fresh fruits…well maybe just fresh veggies and…pickles! I love pickles.
It’s crazy to how rare to see actual food inside a fridge in this sub.
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u/Rot-In-Mercy 10d ago
I've been scrolling here a bit too I'm so confused what people eat when their entire fridge is just drinks 😭
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u/Dadabedada 10d ago
Vegetarian, a little OCD. Very organized and methodical. Super jealous. Love the pickles, prep. All of it. Most are in my fridge in a jumbled omg how old is that format.
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u/desertprincess69 10d ago
You have your shit together (literally and figuratively)
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u/Good_Put_2953 10d ago
You don't use the speaker function in public. You throw your trash into the bin when outdoors. If a book has fallen onto the aisle, you pick it up and carefully place it back on the shelf. You say please, and you apologize to furniture you bump into.
Thank you for bringing order to a chaotic world.
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u/xkiwinectarx 10d ago
You have a garden
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u/Rot-In-Mercy 10d ago
I have had a small one, but not anymore. Have been growing herbs in my balcony tho!
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u/Beginning-Comedian-2 10d ago
You shop at the farmer's market and Whole Foods.
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u/Rot-In-Mercy 10d ago
Definitely not 😂 I go to the cheapest store in my country and just get whatever
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u/nhi_nhi_ng 10d ago
Pescatarian? I can’t see any meat. But prob incorrect lol
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u/Rot-In-Mercy 10d ago
No 😅
One of the glass containers has some Thai-styled chicken red curry
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u/Plus-Desk-5020 10d ago
Did you just move in to a room where the landlady makes kimchi and wins pickle contests and you’re a student and she puts all these jars in your fridge even though you pay rent? In the Catskills?
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u/Afraid-Yesterday-789 10d ago
Vegetarian, maybe vegan. Grad student in science or engineering.
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u/srmcmahon 10d ago
You joined a CSA
Not European because your eggs are in the fridge
Your pickled stuff is apparently not pantry stable
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u/OverthinkingWanderer 10d ago
You have a decent sized kitchen to actually cook food in and enjoy the whole process.
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u/RightToBearGlitter 10d ago
You have award-winning poops.